I have a serious question--Is TLC ran by or controled by fundies or nuts?

[Gloria]

3. Discovery Network or whatever it is

It has a lot of stuff it pukes out.

Here is an article detailing the history of the channel...from 2012, but it goes all the way back to the beginning and details the downward slide...


http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tlc-from-learning-channel-to-honey-boo-boo-2012-11?op=1

Excerpt:


The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare along with NASA founded what was meant to be an informative and instructional network in 1972. The channel was to be distributed for free via a NASA satellite.

The network became privately acquired by the Appalachian Community Service Network in 1980 and was renamed "The Learning Channel."

The network featured adult education shows ("Learn to Read&quot , documentaries on nature, history ("Battles That Changed the World&quot , and science.

In 1991, Discovery bought the network for a reported $31.5 million a move which added more reality television shows to the mix.

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Imagine if the same thing happened to PBS?? Taken over by a commercial entity??

I see that CNBC has already taken over the content of the Nightly Business News....worried about a slippery slope...