Glimmer 238 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/02/06/hln-launches-news-a-movie-thursday-february-12-with-glory/360402/ HLN is launching News and a Movie, which will feature films interspersed with trivia, fun facts and a panel discussion throughout. The first movies to air will be the classic Glory and...Real Genius. I am not kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Just when I thought they couldn't get any worse. How in the hell are they still even classified as a NEWS CHANNEL anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1151 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 It's like The Weather Channel all over again. But I can't tell which is the worst thing between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I'm thinking the endless Forensic Files reruns. At least TWC had sense to stop airing their shows all weekday; now they mainly air at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1847 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 The Weather Channel still broadcasts long-form programming and that's why I don't classify it as a weather channel. Neither is HLN as a news channel, since they barely do news anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbs2newengland 71 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 This is CNN's answer to TWC's Flick and a Forecast. Often my Intellistar would nap during the flims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asomrjsurf 6 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 They still air in the Evenings on Weekdays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseRM303 169 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Sure do miss the old CNN Headline news where it was all about news, weather, sports & entertainment. Now it's more like entertainment and crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOneManHerd 553 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Par for the course. This channel jumped the shark quite a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 869 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 If Time Warner had sense they'd just shut down HLN and use the channel space for something else. I remember rumors flying last year about them handing it over to Vice Media... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoadStar 363 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Just when I thought they couldn't get any worse. How in the hell are they still even classified as a NEWS CHANNEL anymore? Are they really? I haven't thought of them as a news channel in a long time. Maybe the broader "news and information" genre, but definitely not straight news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 If Time Warner had sense they'd just shut down HLN and use the channel space for something else. I remember rumors flying last year about them handing it over to Vice Media... hell at this point I would just shut down HLN and take the channel off the dial! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Maybe in HLN's place they could do what some foreign countries did: A Warner Bros cable station, called the Warner Channel, focusing on the vast WB archive; they could supplement it with some of the Turner backlog (ie TNT's Witchblade, or Hanna-Barbera's SWAT Kats). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detroiter313 178 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 And HLN has sealed its own soon-to-be demise (which would be very unlikely). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 869 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Maybe in HLN's place they could do what some foreign countries did: A Warner Bros cable station, called the Warner Channel, focusing on the vast WB archive; they could supplement it with some of the Turner backlog (ie TNT's Witchblade, or Hanna-Barbera's SWAT Kats). That wouldn't work now. Pay TV providers want channels to provide original programming to justify their existence. A non-stop rerun channel wouldn't cut it. (Also, nitpick: WB owns SWAT Kats and the rest of the Hanna-Barbera library; WB took ownership of Hanna-Barbera and its intellectual property in 1997. The studio no longer exists in its original form, but WB held onto the IP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I now know that, I just want SWAT Kats to be on US TV somewhere, now that they've changed Boomerang's focus, and WB doesn't seem to have put SK on any streaming services yet and I can't get the Warner Archive DVDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4170 Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Par for the course. This channel jumped the shark quite a while ago. It jumped the shark with the introduction of Headline Prime back in 2005. Tot Mom and George Zimmerman were embarrassing sequences that shredded the network's credibility, but HLN's decline was already a foregone conclusion. And HLN has sealed its own soon-to-be demise (which would be very unlikely). HLN is going through the same slow, pitiful demise that befell G4tv: abandoning the network's intended premise for something that they aren't in a vain attempt to lure younger viewers, but driving away whatever audience they had to begin with in the process. When the first cable system drops HLN outright, then you know it's officially dead. And if the network's ratings plummet, anything is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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