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I give it a B. No greater, just a B grade. ALL of the cable channels suffer from lots of money at startup, then a withdrawl of funds and slow descent into the infomercial market.
I just go through the programming for the week, find actual history shows that interest me and set them to record. I don't really pay attention to which channels they are so I have no idea how much history is actually on the History Channel. Between all the Discovery channels, National Geographics and the History Channel, there's usually more than enough actual history shows to record.
A friend of mine used to call it the Nazi Channel, as it seemed at one time that was all it had on...
...but now, I'd welcome those days back. My friend's name for it isn't accurate any more...
There are a few programs I like...I like the barbarian series...and i like when they went over each individual states history...i remember it used to show a lot of hitler stuff, which was neat personally because i enjoyed ww2...it has its ups and downs.
They had a pretty decent show on last night about Andy Jackson but usually it's pretty bad. Even at it's best it's just something to kill time while you sit on your duff; actually I'd rather watch HGTV or Tanya Memme.
I don't think it has strayed any more from its intended format than any other channel--The Weather channel, CNN, Discovery channel, TLC, Turner Classic Movies.
They are all trying to come up with new ways to keep and attract their audience. Eventually they stray far enough that the 'new way' to draw an audience is to go back to their core format--like CNN is starting to do by reducing the number of editorial-format shows and returning to more reporting-format shows.
I don't think it has strayed any more from its intended format than any other channel--The Weather channel, CNN, Discovery channel, TLC, Turner Classic Movies.
They are all trying to come up with new ways to keep and attract their audience. Eventually they stray far enough that the 'new way' to draw an audience is to go back to their core format--like CNN is starting to do by reducing the number of editorial-format shows and returning to more reporting-format shows.
If they removed the commercials and the logo in the corner, I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference among History, TLC, Discovery, etc.
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