What happened to The History Channel?

[armyowalgreens]

I've been watching it for the last 3 hours. It is nothing but doomsday tales, tales of sexual maturation in the 60s and alien intervention on earth.

It's really weird and mostly BS.

[Captain Hilts]

1. I much prefered watching World War II. nt

[Parche]

5. me too

i studied pacific...1941-1945

loved band of brothers!!!!

[Captain Hilts]

20. I'd tune in every night to see which side was winning. nt

[Uben]

2. Don't watch that channel

They're history!

[spanone]

3. maybe they covered it all??

:shrug: :rofl:

[izquierdista]

4. Beats being the Nazi channel

I swear, sometimes they seem so disappointed that WWII didn't work out so well for the corporatists.

[Iggo]

25. Yeah, but at least that was History.

Now it's all about the woo.

[Warpy]

6. It sucks on the weekend, that's for sure

That's when they start airing all the biblical and Nostradumbass stuff as though it were all fact.

It's actually been good over the last week, lots of geology programs.

[sea four]

7. They dumbed it down to make more money n/t

[Jkid]

11. Just like everyother niche channel that used to be niche

Now they'll all mainstream general entertainment channels with a theme. If you want real niche programing, you have to get digital cable and with that you'll have to pay more and subsidize more channels you will have zero interest of watching.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. And even digital cable has some sucky channels now

BBC America is garbage except for Torchwood and Doctor Who.

Ovation is gone.

National Geographic is all Dog Whisperer.

Netflix is my friend.

[Jkid]

17. Ovation is still there.

I can still access the website.

[havocmom]

13. Sadly, that explains a lot.

Welcome to DU, sea four! :hi: Looking forward to reading more from you.

[BlooInBloo]

8. The Hitler Channel? It's always been like that.

[seeviewonder]

9. I used to watch this channel about five years ago.

I have since switched to NOVA...

[hedgehog]

10. The History and Discovery channels really make me appreciate PBS.

The PBS shows use video to enhance learning and pack a lot of visual and audio information into their presentations. The for-profit shows tend to have a lot of phony what-if speculation before every commercial to make sure you're hooked.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Right wing slanted Hearst funded crap

Hearst Publishing - they were Murdoch before Murdoch was born.

[annabanana]

15. I'm not sure who owned these channels first... They started out ok..

Such wasted potential.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. Kinda like CNN

It was OK when Ted Turner owned it, but definitely took a hard right turn when the AOL/TimeWarner regime moved in.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. It's Saturday night and no one's watching TV so...

every channel puts the cheap crap on for us geeks and nerds chained to our basement TVs because we have no other place to go.

During the week there's a few interesting shows here and there, but most cable channels are getting just too damned specific trying to get some kind of ratings. I used to like stuff like Wild West Tech, but they haven't ordered any new shows.

(So far, wrestling and SpongeBob beat the crap out of all the other cable shows.)

[asdjrocky]

18. I thought that was the Hitler channel. nt

[angrycarpenter]

21. It's the Armageddon channel now

My mom watches it nonstop and it is nothing but Ghosts, UFOs, end of the world, biblical prophicy, and about 5% real history. All the old people who remember WWII have died and now they are catering to the early baby boomers with their own unique interests and fears. I did find it interesting that they showed a documentary on the battle of Waterloo at about the same time that the Obama's healthcare Waterloo story was making the rounds.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. The Science Channel is about nothing but bridges and construction

How they make ping pong balls or jelly beans is what many of its shows have as subject matter. It almost never has true science but mostly it's about engineering, if even that. And I agree that the History channel has become pretty weird lately.

[Ex Lurker]

23. Same thing that happened to TVLand n/t

[imdjh]

24. They ran out of World War II retrospectives?

[MichaelHarris]

26. preparing

us for the Mayan Calender death roll in 2012