Yesterday I started watching a show on the History Channel proportedly about if someone discovered America before Columbus and when I tuned in it was talking about the Mormon claims and how Hebrews left and could have sailed to America, etc. Some Indian tribe claimed to be Hebrew and their DNA was tested - no match.

Is this channel owned or subsidized by Mormon $$$? If so it is so NOT A HISTORY CHANNNEL.

The History channel is owned by A&E Television Networks.

A&E is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation (37.5% ownership), The Walt Disney Company (37.5%), and NBC Universal (25%). The network is a result of a merger in 1984 between Hearst/ABC's Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS) and (pre-General Electric merger) RCA-owned The Entertainment Channel.

I'm more likely to believe that Hebrews are the ancestors of Native Americans though.

Sounds ligitimate to me.

back when it was all WWII all the time.

Now it's become some unwatchable bastard stepchild of the SYFY Channel and the National Enquirer.

+1000

for years the History channel has been warping information that curiously alligns with Mormonism. It seems to be a propaganda tool & not really historical info. NatGeo is not better- just like "do not believe everything in print", no one should believe info on a slick cable network as history or fact.

I think that was the same one our resident archaeologist Richard-the-Bad dismissed with a decidedly unprintable--and unscholarly--analysis.

Scott Wolter is often featured on programs involving the "Quest for the Holy Grail in North America" and he's based his work on the proven fraud, the Kensington Runestone, which was "unearthed" in Minnesota in the 19th Century. Curiously, that area of Minnesota was settled by Scandanavians whose ancestors were the Vikings who are alleged to have carved the Runestone. More curiously, none of these artifacts have been found in coastal regions where one would think the likelihood of landfall would make them more common. Finally, before the construction of the canal on the St. Lawrence River, passage into the Great Lakes was an impossibility because of unnavigable rapids.

Richard is right. This stuff is bullshit.

Similarly, the Nat Geo Channel has ties with Fox (and doesn't rely all that much on the National Geographic Society and it's hundred year plus record of excellence in science reporting). It's been infected with the tabloid virus known to have been brought to this current in virulent form by a certain Rupert Murdoch.

Xenu zipped in from Kolob the other day, and we had a mocha latte wine spritzer together. He's very concerned about his galactic royalties.

I think that was a portion of the series.

I saw one about Welsh royalty as well as vikings.
They looked at possible ties with Japan.
There was also a blurp on mormon views.

I liked the history channel better when it was AH-1 ..... All Hitler all the time.

Whoever owns it,it has little to do with history these days

I saw that same program awhile back. My impression was much different. I thought it proved the BOM claims were NOT true, as well as other theories. I was going to suggest it to my TBM dad who loves history.