History Channel

History (formerly and commonly known as the History Channel) is an American pay televisionnetwork and the flagship channel of A+E Global Media, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney Entertainment Television division of the Walt Disney Company's Disney Entertainment segment.

The network was originally focused on history-based, social/science documentaries as well as the news. During the 2000s, the History Channel pivoted into reality television programming and ancient alien conspiracy hypotheses. Such shift in programming has made the History Channel a notable example of channel drift and network decay. In addition to this change in format, the network has been criticized by many scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudo-documentaries and pseudoscientific, unsubstantiated, sensational investigative programming.

As of November 2023, the History Channel is available to approximately 63,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 99,000,000 households. International localized versions of the History Channel are available, in various forms, in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.