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Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2015 1:37 pm**

About to get much, much worse.

History is being rewritten at A+E Networks. FYI and LMN president Jana Bennett is taking over the channel from longtime History exec Dirk Hoogstra, who is leaving the company.

The shuffle comes as History has suffered through double-digit ratings declines in the past two years. Bennett has emerged as a star in the A+E universe thanks to the success of the lifestyle-oriented FYI channel, which bowed in 2013 as a relaunch of the Bio channel.
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Bennett’s career has taken her back and forth from the U.K. to the U.S. She worked as g.m. of Discovery’s TLC more than a decade ago, where she shepherded such hits as “Trading Spaces” and “What Not to Wear.”

And fuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccckkkkkkkkk that channel.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:22 pm**

Of the 4,875,239 cable channels, all but nine of them are in for a rude awakening when their ridiculous fee demands drive cable companies out of business and people start shopping for channels ala carte.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:56 pm**

Hey, at least Trading Spaces and What Not to Wear have some sort of basis in reality. There's more truth there than most of History's shows for some time. This could be a move in the right direction.

It'll still suck, of course, but maybe it'll involve fewer nazi bigfoot UFOs.

Edited By TPRJones on 1442602600

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:05 pm**

Christ... ancient aliens v. trading spaces. I'd rather go back to chiseling rocks.

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