AHC: Save the History Channel

A good chunk of their programming is not history related. All PBS broadcasts is the occasional Ken Burns documentaries, a handful of NOVA episodes, and a handful of Frontline or Independent Lens episodes. Antiques Roadshow doesn't count :p

True, but one single episide of a Ken Burns documentary contains more actual history (as well as artistry) than a whole season of the History Channel and its spin offs.
 
Bounce the History/Science/NatGeo/Animal Planet channels out of basic cable hell and into the Premium Package pricing stratosphere. More money for mo' better programming. If they try to slide down into the Honey BooBoo gutter to cut costs/increase their profits, it's easy for the cable customers to drop them in retaliation. :D

That's the ticket! It takes a somewhat educated and elitist viewing public to appreciate the difference between good documentary programming and what those channels currently offer. Like it or not, elitists are also often the people who tend to have disposable income. Not only would premium pricing provide more money, a larger percentages of the people who pay for these channels would expect and demand a better product. And eventually, this better product would become available to less affluent elitists on DVD and internet services like Netflix.
 
Never launch the channel in the first place. The First Law of Programming Thermodynamics states that all channels will start out highly distinct and ordered, but over time will, through television entropy, become disordered and indistinguishable from one another, all carrying the same low-grade pap.

I believe that is actually the Second Law of Programming Thermodynamics.
 
Giorgio Tsoulakos and the alien conspiracy mind-control crowd are a problem for credibility, get them off the air and get more PhDs with genuine topics as a start. Mini-series like the Hatfields and McCoys was a good start, but the mass of alien/conspiracy/prophecy nonsense makes it a running joke. Give the paranoid extremists their night one evening a week and leave the rest for genuine history or recreations.
 
Also what about doing programmes on space/science or is that the perview of the discovery channel?

It should be the domain of Science and Discovery. Pity that The Universe is one of their best shows.

As for how to preserve the History Channel, perhaps nipping this whole ancient aliens/conspiracy nonsense in the bud would be helpful. Keep Chariots of the Gods from being published.
 
Giorgio Tsoulakos and the alien conspiracy mind-control crowd are a problem for credibility, get them off the air and get more PhDs with genuine topics as a start. Mini-series like the Hatfields and McCoys was a good start, but the mass of alien/conspiracy/prophecy nonsense makes it a running joke. Give the paranoid extremists their night one evening a week and leave the rest for genuine history or recreations.
What I want to know is, who are these people who are actually watching that show on a regular basis? Are there really enough people who take it seriously to keep doing these all day marathons?
 
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What I want to know is, who are these people who are actually watching that show on a regular basis? Are there really enough people who take it seriously to keep doing these all day marathons?

people watching it for laughs, but also every uneducated person i know who all take it as 100% accurate and refuse to listen to any counter arguments... seriously my old roommate and his friends were true believers... it was awful for a history lover like myself!
 
I just watched a bit of it on youtube and gave up within minutes because they had the unmentionable sea mammal succeed (also somehow landing 4k panzers in the initial invasion too..).

Better than the SpikeTV show or the CSA documentary though.
 
The CSA documentary was supposed to be humorous satire on US race relations, though. It wasn't billed as a serious allohistorical premise.
 
Does anybody remember that show Kid Nation? I thought it was a neat concept, but it put on insane amounts of stress and anxiety for people that age. If it had been executed as featuring an older age range as the contestants, the show could have easily taken off, and ti would have been a great fit for the History Channel.
 

sharlin

Banned
So what you're saying is that the history channel is...


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UNSUSTAINABLE!


Random Muse moment.
 
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