# What happened to the History Channel?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 9, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-history-channel/485058 "2009-02-09T14:36:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-history-channel/485058/61 "2009-02-15T03:05:14Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Sadly, too much of it is a bit about the folklore and then a lot about some dopes in a boat looking for Nessie, finding a bunch of nothing, showing some grainy photos and then the show declaring that the question is still _wide open_ and we might never know if Nessie is out there or not.

One word: Ratings. Well that, and I imagine “Nessie” gets tourism around the Loch Ness area. They probably sell fun stuff-like stuffed Nessies, and goofy teeshirts, maybe? (I used to be a Nessie fan when I was a kid). So maybe it goes hand in hand?

Do they still do _History’s Mysteries_, or _History’s Crimes and Trials_? Those two were my favorite.

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