> 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.

Let’s watch some The Learning Channel instead!

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.

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.