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

pram 6y ago
“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”
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  Let’s watch some The Learning Channel instead!
  - salawat 6y ago
    Why did you have to go and remind me of that? I remember when that channel's programming was actually good. I to this day cannot understand what bloody happened that apparently necessitated taking a channel built around educational or informative programming and swapping all that out for... whatever TLC does for itself now.
- legerdemain 6y ago
  Are you not entertained?
  - Threeve303 6y ago
    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.
- non-entity 6y ago
  > 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.
newguy1234 6y ago
They need to bring it back.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
  why?
  - kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
    For some people, authority figures shining their flashlights in the faces of poor people is entertaining.
    - SftwreEngnr 6y ago
      Please do not disparage the opinions of others in such a snarky way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
YesThatTom2 6y ago
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-11/running-from-cops-live-pd-canceled-podcast-police https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-... “Basically, it presents a world that is much more dangerous than real life,” Taberski said. “It presents the police as being much more successful than they really are. It misrepresents crime by people of color — the raw numbers are about the same but the show front-loads crime, and especially violent crime, by people of color. And anyone who’s worked in television, especially reality television, knows that you front-load your best stuff, you hook people in the first act.” Thus... this show gave Americans the incorrect belief that (1) drug crime is rampant (it isn't), (2) that most criminals are black (they aren't), and (3) cops are good at their job (they aren't).

pram 6y ago

“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”

tinus_hn 6y ago
Let’s watch some The Learning Channel instead!
- salawat 6y ago
  Why did you have to go and remind me of that? I remember when that channel's programming was actually good. I to this day cannot understand what bloody happened that apparently necessitated taking a channel built around educational or informative programming and swapping all that out for... whatever TLC does for itself now.
legerdemain 6y ago
Are you not entertained?
- Threeve303 6y ago
  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.
non-entity 6y ago
> 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.

newguy1234 6y ago

They need to bring it back.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
why?
- kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
  For some people, authority figures shining their flashlights in the faces of poor people is entertaining.
  - SftwreEngnr 6y ago
    Please do not disparage the opinions of others in such a snarky way. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

YesThatTom2 6y ago

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-11/running-from-cops-live-pd-canceled-podcast-police https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-... “Basically, it presents a world that is much more dangerous than real life,” Taberski said. “It presents the police as being much more successful than they really are. It misrepresents crime by people of color — the raw numbers are about the same but the show front-loads crime, and especially violent crime, by people of color. And anyone who’s worked in television, especially reality television, knows that you front-load your best stuff, you hook people in the first act.” Thus... this show gave Americans the incorrect belief that (1) drug crime is rampant (it isn't), (2) that most criminals are black (they aren't), and (3) cops are good at their job (they aren't).