The decline of the History Channel

[spencerkarter85]

All The History Channel shows is so-called 2012 End of Days nonsense. It should be called The Hysteria Channel IMHO. Scaring children about the end of the world is sad and wrong.

 

[BlueWanderer]

All The History Channel shows is so-called 2012 End of Days nonsense. It should be called The Hysteria Channel IMHO. Scaring children about the end of the world is sad and wrong.

I partially agree because only shows that share the same topics as the Coast to Coast AM program go the hysteria route. That's why I don't listen to that program anymore unless it's one of those old Art Bell reruns. The rest is just harmless retro pop-culture and dumb documentary-style reality shows that gives a certain region(s) of the country a bad rep.

 

[ansky212]

Crime and Investigation is a HD-only channel so it's not on most of the more basic packages

Verizon Fios carries the SD version of Crime and Investigation. They don't carry it in HD.

 

[carolinaradio]

I never thought it was available in anything but HD. My provider has always carried it in HD-only and I believe DirecTV was the same.

 

[benwolf]

AT&T Uverse has It in SD too.

 

[KeyTimes950]

Sadly, very few of the theme networks still do what they originally were meant to do. A&E and Bravo are excellent examples and History definitely can be added to that list. (I miss many of the series that marked the early days of History, including the late David Carradine's Wild West Tech.) Some networks, on the contrary, do remember what they're around to do, such as Travel and Food Network, the latter perhaps a bit heavy on competition shows but also pulling off some good documentaries such as the one not so long ago that focused on Harlem.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I never thought it was available in anything but HD.  My provider has always carried it in HD-only and I believe DirecTV was the same.

Charter in Jackson, TN carries the HD version of the Weather Channel in SD on their basic system, so I take it that it's no problem to convert an HD channel to SD if a cable or satellite system wants to run it that way.