History Channel

[samgrant]

The Military Channel is "Premium" and I only get "Basic". Not being a big fan of UFO stories, I don't watch the so-called History Channel much anymore.


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[M E Wolf]

Dear List Members;

Advice please -- In looking in Amazon's DVD Collection about the Civil War, there are DVDs offered by The History Channel. The customer reviews were not as positive as I would have thought. So, I have passed them over.

I am still using broadcast television--yes, no cable, etc. So, I have never seen what is on cable.

What I have ordered though, is Horses of Gettysburg, Gettysburg-Three Days of Destiny, Gettysburg and Stories of Valor-Civil War Minutes III - Public Television Edition; The Battle of Gettysburg-History of Warfare and The Battle of Gettysburg Recap & Reunion film DVD: 1938 Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsulvania Reunion of Civil War Soldiers & Battles History Pictures Film.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
M.E. Wolf

[Jamieva]

Hoosier- I used to have Comcast, and Military History channel was not offered on it. I switched over to ******* Fios and they offer it.

[ole]

Books are where it's at, good people.

History Channel and, I suppose, Military History Channel are nice and entertaining. But the "history" you get is the shorthand version edited to fit into a half-hour time slot. You get an enjoyable overview. You do not get the detail you get on civilwartalk.com. Enjoy the programming, but come back here to learn the real skinny.

ole

[mt155]

The History Channel has caught the Hollywood writers block. It seems nothing but Modern Marvels is ever on. It also seems anything coming out of the land of fruits and nuts is a movie version of a comic book or a remake of an older or British film.

M E Wolf try looking into Wide Awake films for good documentaries. I got their Franklin film for Christmas and enjoy it very much.

Mike T.

[ole]

The History Channel airs its good stuff at O-dark-30 when there is nobody watching. Does that tell you anything? Nobody watches the good stuff so prime time is devoted to making candy and moving or destroying big buildings.

ole

[hoosier]

Originally Posted by Jamieva

Hoosier- I used to have Comcast, and Military History channel was not offered on it. I switched over to ******* Fios and they offer it.

******* Fios?

Either our ever-vigilant automatic censor has struck again, or you're using a code of some sort.

[samgrant]

Seven letters, I'm guessing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*******_FiOS rhymes with horizon

Here in Chicago, we have no choice of cable providers. Depending on where you live you can only get RCN or Comcast. RCN (what I'm stuck with) used to be very good. It had some good unordinary movie channels like IFC and Sundance, and the Golf Channel which was a nice sort of background thing to have on while I could read a book or whatever. Over time they moved those and lots of other stuff from "Basic' to "Premium", so I am not happy about it, but bottom line, I get the "Basic" RCN for free as part of living in this apartment building. (Till they get nutty and kick me out for smoking cigarettes.)

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[Parault]

Now the History Channel wil be doing a show entitled The History of the joke. I think that in it self is a joke.
It is really geting bad.

I also seen a advertisment for Axe Men. Now how in the heck does that have anything to do with history?

[Jamieva]

Yeah for some reason the censor got that but Fios is offered by Ver Eye zon. Maybe that will give you better idea

It's something new and they just started offering it here where I live about 6 months ago. beats the pants off of Comcast.