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Does Anyone Still Watch HLN?

ajw — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:46:15 GMT

Should they just completely go away?? News coverage has really go away replaced by some mess called "The Daily Share" No news coverage after 12noon est CNN Spends all day on one subject, I just missed the old days not to mention all the people that have been let go, but they keep Robin Meade? Not that she's that bad but its just not the same

BTW I though he Jodi Arias trial should be have been over by now.... Just saying

Re: Does Anyone Still Watch HLN?

chickenbutt — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:52:51 GMT

I never really did. Is this the channel that used to be CourtTV?

Anyway, as for HLN on its own, about the only time I tune in is when I'm laying around maybe not feeling well or something and I want to watch something easy so I'll tune in to the Forensic Files marathons. But I think I may have pretty much seen them all at this point, so I don't go out of my way to look for it.

I don't watch any of their 'news' or whatever shows, though.

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madzonie — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:06:48 GMT

HLN used to be a good station. They did just what the name implies...ran headlines (or abbreviated stories) of current news items. I would sometimes leave the station on while doing other things just to keep up with what was going on. That was at least 10 years ago. Never watch it now.

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BeckiWV — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:14:10 GMT

DH likes to watch the forensic shows. That's about all we watch on that channel these days. No way am I getting up at the crack of dawn to watch Robin Meade, I don't care how many times they show her commercial.

We saw that channel a lot when the Casey Anthony trial was going on. We watched both Jane Velez Mitchell and Nancy Grace then, and every night Nancy started out with "Bombshell tonight!!!" That always made me chuckle. LOL, I think she still does that too, but I just never got back into watching her after the Anthony trial.

I cannot even stand to "look" at Jodi Arias so I haven't watched any of her trial. I just read about her instead when there is something new.

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Lipstickdiva — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:04:14 GMT

Is HLN the station that had Robin Meade on in the morning? I used to flip between HLN, CNN and Fox every morning while I got ready.

Now I just watch GMA.

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croemer — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:10:23 GMT

Rarely...

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:19:00 GMT

There is not much on now.......a lot of us watched the Arias trial and listened to Vinney,......but now,....nothing ....and as someone else said they show the same foresinic cases over and over,so boring..........ps I don't know how to spell foresenic but neither does auto correct,lol.

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colliemom4 — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:27:56 GMT

I read that they are trying to change it but know that it will be almost impossible to make it good. How stupid is that?

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:33:09 GMT

On 1/15/2015 colliemom3 said:
I read that they are trying to change it but know that it will be almost impossible to make it good. How stupid is that?

It used to be good, I wonder why they changed it,.....if it ain't broke, don't fix it,lol.

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colliemom4 — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:37:08 GMT

On 1/15/2015 Jannabelle said:
On 1/15/2015 colliemom3 said:
I read that they are trying to change it but know that it will be almost impossible to make it good. How stupid is that?

It used to be good, I wonder why they changed it,.....if it ain't broke, don't fix it,lol.

I know. Right?! I think they are trying to gear it more towards younger people. They got rid of Court TV too. Why ruin good things? Leave it to the networks to screw things up.

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:40:49 GMT

On 1/15/2015 colliemom3 said:
On 1/15/2015 Jannabelle said:
On 1/15/2015 colliemom3 said:
I read that they are trying to change it but know that it will be almost impossible to make it good. How stupid is that?

It used to be good, I wonder why they changed it,.....if it ain't broke, don't fix it,lol.

I know. Right?! I think they are trying to gear it more towards younger people. They got rid of Court TV too. Why ruin good things? Leave it to the networks to screw things up.

I wonder what happened to Vinny, Jane velez Mitchell, and the others......I think Joey Jackson is still there..

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colliemom4 — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:49:53 GMT

Sometimes when I'm channel surfing I see a lot of the lawyers like Joey, Vinnie etc on different stations giving commentary on different legal situations/cases. I heard Jane was fired but I haven't heard anything else about her. I know she wrote all those books or at least several so maybe she has a little money to live on though I'm sure she's going for another job.

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Hooty — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:22:33 GMT

NO ........... except when Forensic Files is on, and most of them I have seen a hundred times, very rare do I see one I haven't seen!

I use to be a big fan of Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew, Jane Valez Mitchell, and the lawyers that use to be on there, that all has changed, I think they should become the Forensic Files TV, LOL!

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:26:46 GMT

On 1/15/2015 colliemom3 said:
Sometimes when I'm channel surfing I see a lot of the lawyers like Joey, Vinnie etc on different stations giving commentary on different legal situations/cases. I heard Jane was fired but I haven't heard anything else about her. I know she wrote all those books or at least several so maybe she has a little money to live on though I'm sure she's going for another job.

Really? have not seen Vinney anywhere,.....do you remember his last name? That is interesting about Jane, I liked her show.

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:28:02 GMT

On 1/15/2015 Hooty said:
NO ........... except when Forensic Files is on, and most of them I have seen a hundred times, very rare do I see one I haven't seen!

I use to be a big fan of Nancy Grace, Dr. Drew, Jane Valez Mitchell, and the lawyers that use to be on there, that all has changed, I think they should become the Forensic Files TV, LOL!

For real! That is all it is now,,,,,seems like they could get some new ones.

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chickenbutt — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:30:55 GMT

Re: Vinnie - I believe his last name is Politan or Politano. I haven't seen him since CourtTV, so I'm not sure which.

Re: Forensic Files - I know, right? It's the Foresnsic Files Channel. Often, I'm cruising through the Tivo guide and almost always I see a block of many MANY hours of Forensic Files episodes.

I think they dropped that one for the new one on ID, called 'Cause of Death'. It's also narrated by the same guy who, BTW, is like 90 years old! Who'd ever guess that from his strong, distinctive voice? (NOT making a dig at 90 year olds! His voice just sounds much much younger to me)

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Jannabelle — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:41:27 GMT

On 1/15/2015 chickenbutt said:
Re: Vinnie - I believe his last name is Politan or Politano. I haven't seen him since CourtTV, so I'm not sure which.

Re: Forensic Files - I know, right? It's the Foresnsic Files Channel. Often, I'm cruising through the Tivo guide and almost always I see a block of many MANY hours of Forensic Files episodes.

I think they dropped that one for the new one on ID, called 'Cause of Death'. It's also narrated by the same guy who, BTW, is like 90 years old! Who'd ever guess that from his strong, distinctive voice? (NOT making a dig at 90 year olds! His voice just sounds much much younger to me)

Thank you CB....I googled Vinnie, apparently he went to Atlanta......i' d like to see cause if death, does it come on HLN?

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chickenbutt — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:00:34 GMT

Jan - No, 'Cause of Death' is on the ID channel. They are also 30 minute episodes, narrated by Peter Thomas. The format - really, everything - is exactly like Forensic Files.

The weird thing was that they were aired in 4 to 6 episode lumps and now I think it's on hiatus already, but some reruns of those eps might come up in the near future.

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traveler — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:16:17 GMT

I used to watch Headline News when it was news every 30 minutes with Chuck Roberts or Bobbie Battista. It was nice to have the news even at night while traveling. I stopped watching it when it became a junk news channel. It could go away for all I care.

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circles — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:22:16 GMT

I use to enjoy CNN till they became the ""one note"" station.....also liked HLN till they took away all the good shows and put on Forensic Files...I think I have seen all of them at least twice...

Never cared for Nancy Grace...if you don't agree with her...she shouts at you and cuts you off...I never understand how anyone comes to her show...so I don't tune her in...

Dr Drew isn't bad...but hard to listen to when everyone on the panel is shouting...

Now I don't watch any of them....