A&E Loses Half Of Its Viewers Following Puzzling Cancellation Of Popular Show
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When George Floyd was killed the world went wild, including cable TV stations like A&E and Paramount which for bizarre reasons known only to them, they canceled the extremely popular Live PD and the long-running (33 years) COPS. Why? What point were Paramount and A&E trying to make? Is it that all cops are somehow bad, which is far, far from the truth, yet both cable providers somehow felt showing cops doing their jobs would bring down the wrath of the quasi-terrorist organization Black Lives Matter. Only they can tell us why they pulled this ridiculous stunt, but it’s costing them millions upon millions of dollars.
Here’s the story from Newser:
Who knew a reality TV series had so much pull? A&E found that out the hard way after it canceled Live PD last month, a show that shadows police officers as they work their beats. The Wall Street Journal reports that after the show was nixed on June 10, ratings for the network started taking a deep dive, with the average number of prime-time watchers between June 11 and July 19 coming in at 498,000—49% lower than during the same time period last year, per Nielsen data. The news was even worse among two targeted demographics: There was a 53% drop among the 25-54 age group, while the 18-49 set saw a 55% fall.
Before the show was canceled, the network was seeing a 4% rise in prime-time viewership compared with the same time last year. Forbes notes the show also spawned multiple spinoffs, and that all together, the Live PD franchise made up 85% of A&E’s daily programming for the week at times. The network tells the Journal in a statement that it expected this “temporary hit in the ratings” after dumping Live PD, and that it will “find new hits and reinvent ourselves.” Hopefully that will be the case, as the Live PD bundle brought in nearly $293 million in advertising last year for the network.
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To be fair, the madness of crowds can be intimidating and if you depend on ratings they can put you out of business.
It’s quite extraordinary how huge organisations misread the public mood.
Over here, the Premier League, the BBC and lots of others seemed to be affected by the vocal minority mass hysteria.
I can only assume BLM supporters made such a loud noise, these organisations mistook them for a majority.
Pretty much all of them have beat a hasty retreat since the initial hysteria, but much loss of public trust in them is the cost.