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A& E


As most of you are aware, I do not watch much television, but I read something today about a reasonably large group that potentially may be another small group of Trump 2020 voters.

From Townhall:

There had been a show on A&E called ‘Live PD’, created by Dan Abrams. It was a better version of COPS that began airing in 2016. It had dozens of crews following police officers from all over the country, allowing them to cut.

When Black Lives Matter came on the scene, ‘Live PD’ offered something that could not be allowed to survive because it showed :

(I a) that cops are decent human beings; 

(b) at times offered how hard this job can be in certain  situations.

The show ran against the narrative that cops were all quasi-Nazis, so the network axed it. 

“Live PD” which followed  police on their rounds in multiple cities simultaneously, averaged about 1.9 million viewers for its Friday and Saturday night episodes, and repeatedly re-aired on other days. It spawned several successful spinoff shows, also canceled.

The result of that woke move . . . Ratings for A&E Network have plummeted since it canceled “Live PD” on June 10, a sign of how much the network relies on law-enforcement programming.

Average prime-time viewership for A&E between June 11 and July 19 was 498,000 people, down 49% from the same period last year, according to data from Nielsen. In the key demographics of adults 18-49 and 25-54, the declines are 55% and 53%, respectively.

A&E lost nearly half its viewers (via WSJ), and this cannot be good for any TV station!

Now that it’s viewers are Alienated and Estranged, A&E will soon no longer considered either Affluent or Established.

Perhaps the final chapter of this story will be Chapter 11 (one can only hope!), and if so the moral of this A&E saga will be:

“Go “woke” and go broke!”

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