History Channel No Longer Shows History Stuff. Why?

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I think the same can be said for Speed Channel. They used to show all sorts of racing. Now (at least during the regular racing season), they glop it up with NASCAR. I'm talking every practice session (unless it's during ESPNs run with Sprint Cup, in case ESPN carries final practice aka 'Happy Hour'), qualifying, filler shows between sessions, and then on Friday nights where there's no truck series race, they replay what was on earlier.

However, their Formula One and Rolex Sports Car coverage is quite good.

sigh...

Ok, WWII was admittedly a very dark time in humanity's past. I would single us out for the lion's share of the blame for it though. I could find millions of Chinese who would bring up the Rape of Nanking, millions more Koreans who object to 'comfort women' (drafted as prostitutes for the Japanese Army), or even diplomats who were subjected (thankfully, unsuccessfully) to biological warefare.

They must be teaching this stuff somewhere; that it would have been better for the US to forego the bomb and spend an additional 2 years losing a million dead, and who knows how many million Japanese dead, the partition of Japan into North and South Japan (like Korea), and a potential conventional war with Russia once our forces met. Better dead conventionally than through nukes, no matter what the number.

And perhaps because we did see the horror of the bomb, we've been smart enough not to use it again.

It seems all of the cable channels eventually become sad, bland shadows of their former selves.

It does show history, because as soon a a new film is made, it already becomes history!

I signed up for the History Channel back at the very beginning, as a mini-series about Charlemagne was among the very first programming. Unfortunately, they seem to have dumbed down for the sake of ratings since then, forgetting that they came into existence solely to show programs about HISTORY!! !

I think it all began when The History Channel started saturating their time with so many WWII documentaries that they earned the nickname "The Hitlery Channel".  Then it all went downhill from there.

If anything could be further down the hill than Hitler, they managed to find it!

But how long History is no longer History? I remember after the 911 attacks we got Nostradamus documentaries.

Well that was some ace necromancy...

Still quite sad the topic itself is still relevant.
All the ancient aliens and paranormal s**t is the worst. That needs to go, it's actively trying to make the stupid people who'd watch that even more stupid.
I sometimes try to watch it just to laugh at it but I can't for long because I quickly get pissed off at all the ridiculous things those shows promote. Bloody hell.

Most people are NT and most NTs are stupid.

Notice for both those statements I said most not all.

Same reason the New Scientist is now owned by the Daily Mail.

We didn't have Sky TV when I was growing up, so didn't have the History channel, but I found this review of its decline interesting.

TLDR: they wanted more money