Grassley reignites feud with History Channel

Sen. Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyKavanaugh returns questionnaire to Senate panel Sunk judicial pick spills over into Supreme Court fight Andrew Wheeler must reverse damage to American heartland MORE (R-Iowa) reignited his feud with the History Channel on Saturday after apparently watching a history program on another channel.

“Just watched history on An American Experience abt Thomas Edison the inventor Thx Comcast on Arlington Va Channel 19 DO U GET MESSAGE HISTORY CHANNEL???” the senator tweeted. 

Just watched history on An American Experience abt Thomas Edison the inventor Thx Comcast on Arlington Va Channel 19 DO U GET MESSAGE HISTORY CHANNEL???

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 30, 2017

Grassley has long critiqued the History Channel for not showing history programming, and went after the network earlier this month.

Turned to History Channel "The Curse of Oak Island ". Again no history Change name of channel to"ETC"

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 9, 2017

His criticism of the network dates back to 2012. 

History. No history. Axe man Timber Nothing historical. Back to FOX. Sigh. Suggest name to change channel name

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 18, 2012

Just love history. So occasionally I turn to history channel. "mud cats" when wi they put history back on the channel

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) February 25, 2012

Ocassionally I turn to History channel hope to c history. Whenevr will the history channel hv a real old fashion histry program

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) January 6, 2012

 The History Channel was ranked eighth in ratings out of all basic cable networks in 2016.