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Travel Channel now all paranormal stuff

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Neel

Or Trvl as they call it now...

Seems to be the latest casualty of the merger as there is really no Travel related programming anymore. I miss Mysteries at the Museum, Expedition Unknown and other such shows.
Now it is almost all paranormal and ghost programming. I had no idea that was so popular that there is almost a full channel dedicated to haunted stuff.
 
Neel said:
Or Trvl as they call it now...

Seems to be the latest casualty of the merger as there is really no Travel related programming anymore. I miss Mysteries at the Museum, Expedition Unknown and other such shows.
Now it is almost all paranormal and ghost programming. I had no idea that was so popular that there is almost a full channel dedicated to haunted stuff.
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Well the demos that want Travel related programming are primarily going to YouTube for that.
 
Every time I surfed the channel, they were rerunning old Disneyland travelogues and Food Destinations shows for the 10 millionth time. I really expect the same thing to happen to a lot of similar channels. A&E used to have cultural shows, and now its endless repeats of Storage Wars. These channels are all looking for a theme and an audience.
 
MarcB said:
It's sad what they did to this channel. When exactly did they change formats?
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It changed at about the time that Discovery took over the network, and they've lost me as a viewer. But I've just noticed that a lot of what was on Travel is now on Destination America. Also several of the food and restaurant shows are now on the Cooking Channel, and they have been doing new shows with Andrew Zimmern and Man V Food there. So I've been watching my favorite former Travel Channel shows on the Cooking Channel and I'll start checking Destination America more. I really won't be surprised if TRVL eventually changes to some sort of paranormal name.
 
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TheBigA said:
Every time I surfed the channel, they were rerunning old Disneyland travelogues and Food Destinations shows for the 10 millionth time. I really expect the same thing to happen to a lot of similar channels. A&E used to have cultural shows, and now its endless repeats of Storage Wars. These channels are all looking for a theme and an audience.
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A&E has become more police investigation shows like The First 48 and Live PD, and they're another channel that has lost me as a viewer. Storage Wars is now more often on FYI, which is now full of reruns of A&E and History Channel shows.
 
It was a gradual change, with more and more paranormal stuff replacing other programming. True, they had a lot of reruns of food shows and road trip shows but at least there was some interesting shows like "Mysteries..." and other shows about Angkor Wat or Everest Base Camp that are somewhat travel related and inspired me to go there since I saw it on Josh Gates or one of those programs.

Paranormal stuff all day long doesn't interest me that much, maybe cause you can't prove it and it's more for just entertaining. But maybe to a lot of people it's interesting; the direction these cable channels are going, it's no surprise. They do move shows to Destination America, FYI and other channels, but those are usually higher tier channels that not a lot of people subscribe to. Maybe their way of trying to get us to subscribe and pay for higher tier channels
 
https://www.youtube.com/user/LonelyPlanet

If one is really watching travel programming the current demo might be going to Lonely Planet one of the YouTube channels broadcasting travel content though. Also some PBS affiliates will air Rick Steve's Travels to Europe whenever the PBS affiliate is doing pledge programming. My take here is that the demos for travel programming simply left Travel Channel for other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Steves'_Europe
 
Don CT said:
The only Discovery network that really hasn't gone too far off the rails is Science.
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Actually HGTV is still pretty much the same channel it's always been, even after Discovery bought it. However, they've expanded the brand to a few other channels.
 
TheBigA said:
Actually HGTV is still pretty much the same channel it's always been, even after Discovery bought it. However, they've expanded the brand to a few other channels.
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Once DIY becomes the Gaines channel I wonder how that will affect HGTV.
 
TheBigA said:
Actually HGTV is still pretty much the same channel it's always been, even after Discovery bought it. However, they've expanded the brand to a few other channels.
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Food Network and the Cooking Channel are both still pretty much the same as they had been before Discovery's takeover other than moving some of what food shows had been on Travel.

I also found out that Destination America had been moved to a higher tier than I have on Spectrum, which must have been done recently.
 
Neel said:
Or Trvl as they call it now...

Seems to be the latest casualty of the merger as there is really no Travel related programming anymore. I miss Mysteries at the Museum, Expedition Unknown and other such shows.
Now it is almost all paranormal and ghost programming. I had no idea that was so popular that there is almost a full channel dedicated to haunted stuff.
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I think some of those shows are on Science Channel these days.
 
HGTV actually has sort of changed over the last nine years or so. The focus shifted from home decor, design and landscaping shows to so-called Real Estate shows that feature purchasing houses for either keeping or flipping. HGTV hosts of yesteryear never got a lot of press, but the network has made stars out of current presenters like the Property Brothers and Mike Holmes.
 
While technically they say TLC doesn't stand for anything these days, viewers can "learn" something from some of their reality shows.

My 600 Pound Life teaches viewers about what people who suffer from extreme obesity have to deal with in their day to day lives and how they can go about losing weight.

Cake Boss teaches viewers what it's like working in a family owned bakery.


Anyway Animal Planet is still all about animals.
 
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