History TV

History (formerly The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based pay television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney Media Networks division of the Walt Disney Company. In addition to its self-named flagship channel, History provides sister channels such as History en Español (Spanish language) and Military History.

The channel originally broadcast documentary programs and historical fiction series. More recently, it has channel drifted to mostly broadcast various male-oriented reality television series such as Pawn Stars, Ax Men, and other nonhistorical content. The network is also criticized by many scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudodocumentaries and unsubstantiated and sensational investigative programming, such as Ancient Aliens, UFO Hunters, Brad Meltzer's Decoded, and the Nostradamus Effect.

As of February 2015, around 96,149,000 American households (82.6% of households with television) receive the network's flagship channel, History.[International localized versions of History are available, in various forms, in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The first European version was launched in Scandinavia in 1997 by Viasat, which now operates its own channel, Viasat History.