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re: Is mid-90s to mid-2000s History Channel the GOAT channel to watch when nothing was on?

Posted on 4/27/24 at 2:51 pm to
Posted by grizzlylongcut
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 2:51 pm to
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They still have great shows on those channels.


Pawn Stars and the search for Bigfoot aren’t great shows
Posted by sqerty
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Member since May 2022
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 3:21 pm to
They were straightforward infotainment war shows , then for a brief time the topics were expanded, then all those horrible scripted let's find this after the commercial garbage shows
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 8:33 pm to
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They were straightforward infotainment war shows


Yeah, which is awesome
Posted by HangmanPage1
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:13 pm to
Unwrapped on Food Network with Marc Summer. I can watch that all day. And the Food that built America, excellent!
Posted by shutterspeed
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:16 pm to
Cartoon Network was legit back then too.
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:24 pm to
Early 2000s tHC was the 3rd most popular channel among men (after the two ESPNs)

But a lot of the men were older. Sponsors want younger viewers, who are supposedly more willing to switch products. And women are believed to do most of the shopping

Ergo, the 16-34 female demo is the most sought after. And the classic HC did not deliver that.
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:30 pm to
How it’s made is tGOAT
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 9:33 pm to
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Wasn't it nicknamed The Hitler Channel because all the show's it had on about Hitler?
Much of their programming came from tUK. The English understandably are -- or at least were -- preoccupied w/WWII. Thus they produced a lot of docs on the subject.

THC would take those docs, slap on an American narrator, and voila! A HC doc.

That is why tHC had so much "The German Panzers moved inexorably toward Rheims..."
Posted by TigersnJeeps
FL Panhandle
Member since Jan 2021
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 10:07 pm to
That's what I and a friend called it...

now it's mostly junk...
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 10:17 pm to
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Mail Call was a great show too!


Maybe that’s what I was thinking of. I think it came on right before History of the Gun or something like that.
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 10:20 pm to
The Real West w/Kenny Rogers is probably the best-ever doc series on the Old West, produced before Woke & revisionism took over

ETA: IIRC tRW was on A&E, but same company
This post was edited on 4/27/24 at 10:22 pm
Posted by OU Guy
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 10:22 pm to
They did this one of my 94 cruise. Was well done

Posted by NATidefan
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Posted on 4/27/24 at 11:48 pm to
Seconds from disaster on National Geographic. PBS used to be great in the 80s and 90s for nature, history, and science stuff as well.

Honestly, good content is still out there. It's just on YouTube.
Posted by UKWildcats
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Member since Mar 2015
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 12:38 am to
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Saunson69
I've noticed, based on your responses in several OT threads tonight, that you're a giant fricking idiot. Post less.
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 12:38 am to
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They still have great shows on those channels.


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Posted by alajones
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:15 am to
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The Real West with Kenny Rogers


I was coming here to post this. They used to show it all the time during the day. I spent many hours doing schoolwork with that on.

That show was awesome.

Ken Burns blew it by not having Kenny narrate his country music documentary.

The two Battle 360s that THC did on the Enterprise and Patton were both great.
This post was edited on 4/28/24 at 7:19 am
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
15851 posts
Posted on 4/28/24 at 7:22 am to
How The West Was Lost was a fascinating series. Can't remember if it was History or Discovery, too lazy to google. We fricked the Indians.
Posted by Squirrelly
Member since May 2022
9 posts
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:11 am to
When I had my oldest, I went to the hospital late at night when my water broke but I didn’t go into labor until the next morning. I remember turning on the History Channel to pass the time, and the show that was on was the history of concrete. It was actually kinda interesting and very informative. I miss the History Channel that showed real history.
This post was edited on 4/28/24 at 8:12 am
Posted by Duckhammer_77
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:01 am to
When I was home sick or had a bad rainy Sunday, Nazis and ancient Egyptians all day long.
Posted by LSU-MNCBABY
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Member since Jan 2004
24358 posts
Posted on 4/28/24 at 9:03 am to
2 pages and no one’s mentioned the scrambled porn channel that the audio worked on?
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