As far as I can tell from Discovery's online schedule for today, they only broadcast three shows anymore: Moonshiners, Undercover Billionaire, and Deadliest Catch. History is even worse: American Pickers, WWII in HD (at least one history show), and Hitler's Secret Tunnels. I guess they don't know Ancient Aliens on Tuesdays.
I remember when these channels used to teach something about the world and its history. I even paid money to be able to watch them back then. Those days are now history, although we'll never have another broadcast television channel to teach us that history. Maybe Youtube's The History Guy will make an episode about how television channels used to carry content relevant to their names. Kids, did you know that 100% of the programming on Music Television used to be about music?
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Hahahaha. Long time DC watcher so I can live with that one. Always more entertaining to do some Googling each season to see what the real story is though. Just catching up (pun intended) on the current season and there’s a rather bad reason Edgar Hansen isn’t on the show this year. Y’all can google it. Dumbass...
I have no idea why we like that one. Mostly we watch it and think “that looks like a really hard damn job, no thanks”. Not that I could do it or anything like it anymore anyway.
Rumors of the salaries paid to the participants by the TV company for the crab show are eye popping. Those folks aren’t making their living from crab anymore. But with as many seasons as its had, they know the end has to be near. 15 seasons... long run for a TV show.
History Channel used to be great but how many times can you re-run the same old WWII shows?
Your mention of YT and The History Guy... that guy is cool. I hope he’s making what he thought he would, using that platform. CSU grad and clearly an aviation buff too. Been thinking about tossing a couple of bucks in his Patreon kitty — I enjoy watching his content more than most of the crap I already pay for.
But I suspect if he had to fill 24/7/365 his content would go downhill rapidly. That’s the real problem with modern TV channels. Way too many of them and they have to dilute their content and re-run it all a lot interspersed with mainly scam product advertising that we all skip.
Many of the channels don’t even do that and don’t operate 24/7 anymore. The night is just hours of useless informercials about bad vacuum cleaners and such.
Yay DVR tech.
Flying Wild Alaska seemed in the end just to be an advertisement for the guy to sell the company and retire with a nice cash pile from the TV show to afford / make retirement great again. Hahaha. But it was fun.