A brief history of The History Channel

HomeButton · 6 months

Well I guess they ran out of history

LiquidGreggles · 6 months

This is really too bad, I remember not being able to get enough of the history channel, I could turn it on and enjoy pretty much whatever was on. Now it's just pseudo-history with aliens.

gx1400 · 6 months

Born in '88, grew up watching History Channel and enjoying documentaries with my old man. I miss the original History Channel.

TheReaperr · 6 months

2012 loggers, miners and auctions...

ShakeNBakey · 6 months

Same thing happened with G4. Television is fucking up!

Lwislol · 6 months

If we don't learn from history channel, we are doomed to repeat history channel.

librarianzrock · 6 months

am watching the Ancient Aliens "Nazi" episode right now...was a history major... should know better

darkscream · 6 months

I'm sad because in the 90s, I was too young to appreciate these sorts of shows. Now that i'm older, it's hard to find real content.

deezer89 · 6 months

As much as I miss the History Channel, I think I miss the old TLC more. It was my favorite channel as a kid growing up. They used to have some pretty interesting shows on there before "Say Yes to the Dress" and company took over.

Ubermensch65five321 · 6 months

God I loved the Hitler era.

nihilation · 6 months

i loved it in 95/96 when it was mostly ancient rome and egypt.

how i long for the golden age of history channel

snackies · 6 months

I love the modern marvels series, I think thats still going? Because really with that they just pick something, and then you learn like a really interesting background on whatever it is that they picked. But I think it is like modern marvels = 2%, random alien / monster / ghost / reality shows 98%.

zoqfotpik · 6 months

It's the MTV Effect.

cmv1 · 6 months

I totally agree. I used to refer to the History Channel as the WWII channel...now I just...cringe...

Aulritta · 6 months

"We have to put those programs on because they pay for our ground-breaking documentaries!"

ಠ_ಠ

willscy · 6 months

You guys remember Tech TV? that was a awesome channel.

ajd6c8 · 6 months

The Universe was quite good. That was first on History right?

rebat0 · 6 months

Wikipedia got it right:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_%28TV_channel%29#Programming

http://imgur.com/12eEc

Fengorn · 6 months

I see you included the Australian History Channel.

doctorralph · 6 months

The History Channel, or "History," used this description for a brief period last year:

History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts programs regarding blue collar Americana, occult, pseudoscientific, and paranormal phenomena.

Absolutely worthless. It's some kind of sick joke to advertise that you're peddling pseudoscience. The fuck.

WhiteyMcJJ · 6 months

I must say, i knew a shit ton about Hitler when I was eight.

bryan_sensei · 6 months

it's clear that the History Channel has ZERO interest in addressing topics outside of it's narrow scope...what a shame. how hard is it to produce objective programs on topic other than WWII and bigfoot? topics I'd like to see: WWI, native american tribal history, a comprehensive "immigration in america" series, race in america, etc...

a_lot_of_fish · 6 months

What happened to the old History Channel?

OmegaMilkShake · 6 months

Same happened to Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. I'm guessing it was only me that enjoyed watching nature documentaries.

Urkenelite · 6 months

I remember when I used to like watching H.

AAAAA42 · 6 months

If you put a circus next to a museum, the circus will probably get more people.

(Unfortunately.)

chrisstout · 6 months

Could it be that Hitler was an esssstra-terrresteral, I think the answer is yes.

twelvis · 6 months

Music Television does not play music History Channel does not show history The Learning Channel does not help me learn The Food Network does not teach me how to cook Arts and Entertainment contains neither arts nor entertainment

Ignorance is Strength!

btw, TV sucks

enkiavatar · 6 months

You know... come to think of it I'm pretty sure that if they focused more on the Napoleonic Space Nazi Mayan connection they could really hit a new programming high note. like castrato high

...Then people may finally recognize the terrible personal sacrifices made by Duke Wellington (who was actually an ancient astronaut sent forward in time to prevent the full scale adoption of the metric system, which is all that's stopping cyborg Joan of Arc from bringing about the end of days).

pilsner407 · 6 months

Yea...it's a lot of bullshit. The bad thing is, you can no longer tell the difference between the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and TLC.

Glenn20 · 6 months

For all those Pawn Stars fans out there.

That shits not history get it off my channel and present some real, researched history
Shows fake, just google it, read about 10 articles now with valid evidence (grabbed this off the first google page because I couldn't be bothered finding specific articles I've read to cite here)

Please bring history channel back to real stories, with real research and real evidence. And maybe the occasional archaeological site funded by the channel or something, I dunno?

keystone1221 · 6 months

I decided to look at what their schedule for the day was tomorrow. Starting at 7am their line up is as follows; pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, american pickers, american pickers, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, american pickers, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers, pawn stars, pawn stars, american pickers and then infomercials from 3am on. Dead serious.

ObsBlk · 6 months

Reminds me a bit of Invention Pioneers of Note. (Warning: TVTropes).

clusterfluffmyballs · 6 months

I remember wayyy back when you would flip on the history channel and if it wasn't on a commercial it would be black and white clips of either of the world wars, and I remember wishing they'd do something else...and now I flip it on and I miss all that stuff...you know stuff about history. South Parks Thanksgiving Special summed up all the new programming.

AltAccountSockPuppet · 6 months

As somebody who actually watched The History Channel in the mid 90s; It was all WW2, all the time. They did not wait until 2002 for the introduction of Hitler.

TheMahatma · 6 months

Ancient aliens and suǝılɐ ʇuǝıɔuɐ ?

Moontouch · 6 months

Another absolutely disastrous fall has been that of National Geographic. Way back it used to be all about documenting genuinely interesting social events and phenomenons. Now it's just drug wars and life in prison.

mycroft2000 · 6 months

There was a period during which A&E was known as the Artillery and Engineering Network, but I have no idea what it shows these days.

Nobilibang · 6 months

Hindsight is 20/20. Foresight is 2012.

What a horrible tagline.

TheHanyo · 6 months

Ugh. I work at History and wish I could explain everything to everyone.

ALL_in_A_days_WORK · 6 months

I want the old History Channel back. :(

BoUnCy1337 · 6 months

True history

shyshyboy · 6 months

catering to the idiots that live in this country.

TehSteveo · 6 months

History Channel is terrible, between aliens, Nostradamus, Doomsday, aliens, terrible reality TV series, and more aliens. Anything remotely resembling the old History Channel is on H2 from what I've seen.

avioneta · 6 months

History*

of idiot network executives

seafood10 · 6 months

Comedy Central started out showing I Love Lucy and other older sitcom shows.......

handelsbar · 6 months

I was so mad about Ancient Aliens that I wrote the History Channel a letter.

Seriously, at one point the guy was trying to prove that Egyptians had alien flashlights. He says that there's no oxygen deep in the tombs. As proof, he said that he was in the tombs, and could not light his match. Nobody bothered to ask him how he was still breathing.

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