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A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’

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Re: A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’

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“In some weeks, the “Live PD” universe accounted for more than 85% of A&E’s daily programming.” Every bit of this story is grotesquely moronic, lol. I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place. Also a reminder that A&E used to stand for “Arts and Entertainment”

> I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place.

I wonder how common this is becoming for channels. I was reading people joke how MTV basically only plays one show themselves (Ridiculousness) after they announced knew of the other shows they play was being dropped.

Re: A&E Has Lost Half Its Viewers Since Dropping ‘Live PD’

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“In some weeks, the “Live PD” universe accounted for more than 85% of A&E’s daily programming.” Every bit of this story is grotesquely moronic, lol. I’d say they’re justifiably paying the price for letting their channel become so dependent on a single genre/show in the first place. Also a reminder that A&E used to stand for “Arts and Entertainment”

Are you not entertained?

Underrated comment. This is something that has been on my mind for some time.

A symbiotic relationship between entertainment, news, and the legal system developed to something very different than what we have been accustomed to. It may be a dangerous arrangement, not all that different from the way labor is provided to the prison system, entertainment content is provided to the news media.

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