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The History Channel is no more

Posted Mar 21st 2008 9:23AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd

The History Channel is going away. The network's name will now simply be History. This move is being done to promote their attempts to move into other forms of media.

The network was once dubbed "The Hitler Channel" by some critics due to its overabundance of World War II documentaries. History is apparently following the model of other channels and loosen the central theme of the network.

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