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What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 4:23:30 PM   
mbar


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Status: offline 		I know. I know. They haven't been the most accurate about some things in history but they may want to think about changing their name.

Pawn Stars? Ax Men? Gang Land? Ice Road Truckers? Aliens?

What the heck? How about some history?
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 4:44:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do not think they will ever go back. They have a new hotshot programming woman and the new shows have made History Channel a top ten cable channel. I watch The Military Channel more than the history channel now. The Military Channel bascially shows repeats of History Channel material that the History Channel no longer makes.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 5:39:22 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 5:43:36 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 5:49:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		There's only so many people that enjoy watching stuff about Hitler and WWII. I guess now they don't have to rename it to the Hitler Channel. But I agree with you guys... It's taking the same direction as MTV did back in the day.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 6:31:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I watch the Military Channel too. But the History channels is so bad now I can't even watch "On Demand" shows because all they have now is reality TV programs.

Every once in awhile I get lucky and see shows about Hannibal or Alexander but it's a rare day.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 6:36:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

I hear ya. I miss all the actual history stuff. 

Me too. I now watch the Military and History International channels for my historical "fix". I've not watched the regular "History" channel in at least four years, which is sad on several different levels.


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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 6:37:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		I believe that there's actually an international version that has better programming.

BTW, I've deleted the HC-USA from my remote control playlist.

Doesn't even come through when I'm surfing.


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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 7:15:20 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 8:06:51 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 9:00:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		There is a new series "America The Story of Us" that looks like it might be interesting coming later this month. It is shown on a web page next to "Ancient Aliens". I guess that's history.

I wonder if there will be another Battle 360? I liked that series.

I usually watch Military Channel now though.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 9:09:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I enjoy Ice Road Truckers and Pawn Stars, but I also agree that they present some very weird programming for The History Channel.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 9:14:28 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 9:27:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Every once in a while History Channel does have some decent stuff. A few weeks ago they aired a show about the state and how they got their shapes, which was very entertaining. Military Channel is getting boring as I have seen all the Hitler stuff, all the top tens, WW I stuff, and most of the WW2 stuff. History International has been interesting of late.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/13/2010 10:24:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		I supose Pawn Stars and Ice Road Truckers could be loosly labled as Social History.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 12:43:25 AM   
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There's only so many people that enjoy watching stuff about Hitler and WWII. I guess now they don't have to rename it to the Hitler Channel.


Hey I remember when A&E almost got "The Hitler Channel" label.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 12:49:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		I prefer watching the "Military History Channel". Military history channel shows all military history all the time, with next to no commercials. It's not the actual military channel, but a branch of the regular history channel(like History international)

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 1:22:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm bummed, first Comcast said they were giving us the Military Channel when they did the switch over, but now that does not seem to be the case!!!.. Boy I hate Cable!!!. wish FIOS was available here!

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 2:24:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey if they change Pawn Stars to Porn Stars maybe they can even make the top 5 cable channel's and there must be some history hiding in there somewhere.

I'm not real high on cable either, but when I have talked with a few that have FIOS they seem to have unhappy customers as well, as does Direct TV, Dish network etc. I'd love to hear an unbiased discussion of their merits however as I have both cable and Fios available in my area.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 3:42:18 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 5:40:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do not think the history channel has fallen for this change any more than the other cable channels. When A&E first came on, they actually had operas and art shows and all that. Comedy Channel actually had unknown comics, MTV actually had music. The problem is, if you want to make a mark as a hot shot programming manager, you have to get the ratings and the advertising money. So all these cable channels start out with a wonderful mission but end up with reality shows. Chase the lowest common denominator and use sex and fads to program your channel or work hard, take risks and try to get talented people to put on great programs. You know who wins that one............weclome to Anna Nicole Smith and her nipple slip reality show............

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 6:24:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		What's with the History Channel?  The same thing that's with the NCAA basketball tournament expanding from 64 to 96 teams; stadiums being named AT&T Park as opposed to something like Candestick Park; and the rise and decline of newspapers and magazines (which were built on advertising revenue rather than subscription revenue and therefore oriented toward the advertiser rather than the subscriber).

Money.

The same wonderful, awful thing that persuades us - at least we Americans - that lining our highways with billboards is a good idea; that decorating our countryside with cellphone towers is a good idea; that lengthening the college football season from eleven to twelve or even thirteen games is a good idea (never mind that the student-athlete is rarely a student); and that we need to fill television programming during "family" hours with advertising for ED medication.

The freedom to pursue our dreams is one of our greatest strengths, but it is also one of our greatest weaknesses.  Our insatiable appetites for more, more, MORE! money gives us everything from ridiculously long sports seasons to ridiculous History Channel programming.

Rant over.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/14/2010 6:53:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Custer

I do not think they will ever go back. They have a new hotshot programming woman and the new shows have made History Channel a top ten cable channel. I watch The Military Channel more than the history channel now. The Military Channel bascially shows repeats of History Channel material that the History Channel no longer makes.


Enough said!


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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/18/2010 11:53:42 AM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/18/2010 12:06:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

What's with the History Channel?  The same thing that's with the NCAA basketball tournament expanding from 64 to 96 teams; stadiums being named AT&T Park as opposed to something like Candestick Park; and the rise and decline of newspapers and magazines (which were built on advertising revenue rather than subscription revenue and therefore oriented toward the advertiser rather than the subscriber).

Money.

The same wonderful, awful thing that persuades us - at least we Americans - that lining our highways with billboards is a good idea; that decorating our countryside with cellphone towers is a good idea; that lengthening the college football season from eleven to twelve or even thirteen games is a good idea (never mind that the student-athlete is rarely a student); and that we need to fill television programming during "family" hours with advertising for ED medication.

The freedom to pursue our dreams is one of our greatest strengths, but it is also one of our greatest weaknesses.  Our insatiable appetites for more, more, MORE! money gives us everything from ridiculously long sports seasons to ridiculous History Channel programming.

Rant over.


Very well said Canoerebel!

I have a solution that has worked well for me for about 25 years: don't pay for any of it, i.e., mostly cable and other mass media.

Okay, granted I do have a subscription to Playboy, but I think its worth enduring the advert-drivel for that

Wife grew up without TV entirely, and I quit my cable-addiction in about 1980. Just to check things out in this 21st century world, we resubscribed back last summer/fall for about 6 months. It was so underwhelming, so frustrating, so insipid, so worthless, so vacuous . . . we probably could've unsubscribed after a mere month, but we just left it for a while just to make sure we did not value it.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 4/18/2010 2:03:44 PM   
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...and I quit my cable-addiction in about 1980

lol - I didn't get cable until around 2007.

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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 10/15/2010 1:49:36 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 10/15/2010 8:12:07 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 10/15/2010 9:12:02 PM   
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RE: What's with The History Channel?? - 10/15/2010 11:25:09 PM   
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I’m still trying to figure how HC got Axe men spotlighting cutting down old growth in this new “green” fade to fly …………?

Nothing like watching 300 years of growth disappearing in the 30 min slot…………



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