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This Day in History Top Story

by A&E Television Networks Mobile

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“Alexa, what's my Flash Briefing?”
“Alexa, play my Flash Briefing”

Description

Check in with your Flash Briefing every day to hear the top historical event for this day in past years.

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Flash Briefing Skill
Rated: Guidance Suggested.
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The content of this skill is appropriate for most users. This skill may include:
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- Advertisements
- User-generated content
- Personal information collection
- Location detection or location-based services
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- Infrequent or mild references to cultural or religious intolerance
- Infrequent or mild realistic, cartoon, or fantasy violence or descriptions of violence
- Infrequent or mild references to alcohol, tobacco and drugs
- Infrequent or mild sexual and suggestive themes
- Infrequent use of mild profanity and crude humor
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5 star		33%
4 star		11%
3 star		5%
2 star		15%
1 star		36%

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IEDucksFan

STOP THE AD FOR THE PODCAST!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020

UPDATE: I’m over it. deleting this skill due to the ads.
i used to love this skill.....then ads started creeping in. NOW the ad for your new podcast is longer than your news. It lengthens my flash briefings unnessarily and i have to cut flash briegings short.

PLEASE remove that ad - small ones i understand you need to pay bills - or i will be forced to delete this otherwise great skill.

9 people found this helpful

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B. Matson

PLEASE Included YEARs ON ALL EVENTs !!

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018

The first story is cool. Then there's a LIST of events from "today" with NO YEAR THEY HAPPENED. This seems basically POINTLESS - who remembers - WHO CARES? - the actual day "The Pony Express" (or whatever) started. The YEAR is what's interesting for historical context, and memorable. Why do they say "In 1842, Columbus sailed the ocean blue," NOT "On Tuesday, November 2..." Because only a Columbus expert cares, and they already know. Might as well say "On this hour of the day, the Magna Carta was signed." Useless info. WHY NOT take 3 MORE SECONDS to add YEARS! (I know I shouldn't care that much, but it just seems ridiculous, and I love the skill otherwise. Especially that it's read by a human, not by Alexa, which tends to make this kind of information hard to understand.)

16 people found this helpful

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Nathan Reinhart

Severe misunderstanding of how the app works

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2018

I have no idea what these reviews are talking about. The “podcast” part of this app isn’t even 2 minutes long, let alone 4 minutes of leftist propaganda like others are claiming. After the podcast portion is done it asks if you want to hear other stories, I am guessing this road is what lead to the “app” touching in political subjects, but I don’t even think this is done by the History Channel app, just Alexa running Google searches.

In my head I imagine people just getting into a huff arguing politics with a robot, to me this is silly, I mean it is silly, right?

15 people found this helpful

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Don Ludlow Jr.

Loved before ADs, now not so much

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019

At 1st ad was short and at end. Then ad was long and at end. Then ad moved to beginning and sure enough... Got long. VERY LONG. Today a movie ad. But not just "Go see this movie" but rather "Go see this movie, followed by a 90 second synopsis of the film". Much as I love my History, if it continues I'm gonna cancel. Shame too. One of the few actually useful Skills. Get Friggin Bezos to pay you..!

9 people found this helpful

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kungfubookworm

great content, excessive ads

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2020

I used to really like listening to this every morning. I understand the need to be ad-supported but recently they added an ad in the beginning which is just too long to be tolerated. Shorten the intro ad!

Then there is yet another advertisement for another show at the end.

I've unfortunately had to disable this skill and will try it again in a few months to see if they've come to their senses.

4 people found this helpful

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S. Francis

Now with ads

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2019

I used to enjoy this fun little skill each morning, but now I have to listen to an RV ad along with it. Makes me mad at RVs (not generally the goal of advertising) and I'll be disabling the skill until I hear the ads are gone.

7 people found this helpful

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Gigantopithecus

Great flash briefing ruined by ads.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2020

This one used to be a highlight of my morning flash breifing. At first I was able to deal with the increasing length of the intro ad but it seems like the actual content was reduced and the intro ad was lengthened. The deal breaker for me is the super annoying outro ad about a history podcast that I have no interest in. This ad is longer than the actual flash briefing and it doesn't change... It's the same ad every single day. I'm disabling this flash briefing for now. Maybe I'll check back in around 6 or 8 months to see if the producers have gotten smart and fixed their greedy goof.

3 people found this helpful

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kailey

Removed - due to annoying podcast advertisement

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2020

I actually really enjoyed having this in my flash briefing until the podcast ad played EVERY DAY. The lady who speaks in the podcast ad now makes me want to grind my teeth. I can understand a shoutout for the new podcast maybe one day a week or just simply inform me.. dont make me listen to the same annoying clip of it every day. At this point, if I wanted to listen to the podcast, I would’ve. Unfortunately, this has driven me to remove this from my flash briefing.

5 people found this helpful

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