# There needs to be a horror cable tv channel

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 25, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986 "2004-09-25T02:20:42Z")
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### Author: ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/1 "2004-09-25T02:20:42Z")

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I don’t think I see any. Sci Fi, FX and BET have horror movies now and again but there is no specifically horror channel the same way comedy has comedy central or medicine has discovery health. Have any horror channels been made and what happened to them.

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### Author: ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/2 "2004-09-25T02:21:42Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273542&highlight=horror+channel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273542&highlight=horror+channel)

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### Author: ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/3 "2004-09-25T08:26:35Z")

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For me Fox News Channel fills that void.

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### Author: ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/4 "2004-09-25T17:24:19Z")

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Wesley…  
on your 70’s folk/rock Topic…

Have you ever heard Gene Clark?  
Start with, “American Dreamer 1964-1974” Raven Records RVCD-21

This topic… check out “Without Warning” 1980  
aka “It Came Without Warning”  
" The Warning"

```
                                 Starring Jack Palance
```

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### Author: ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/5 "2004-09-25T21:32:33Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273542&highlight=horror+channel](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273542&highlight=horror+channel)

[Excellent](http://www.posterplanet.net/images/simpsonsburns.jpg)

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### Author: ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-needs-to-be-a-horror-cable-tv-channel/265986/6 "2004-09-25T22:44:43Z")

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> [@TV time](#):
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> For me Fox News Channel fills that void.

I made that joke in the first thread.

_I win!_