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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6260317" data-attributes="member: 6750039">And what percentage of viewers - and revenue generated by them - would A&amp;E have lost if they bowed to the lesser pressure and canned the show?&nbsp; Oh yeah, 100%.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; It's obvious that more - or, at the least, enough - folks wanted to see those guys than didn't.&nbsp; They're still on the air.And that said, ratings are a little more nuanced than you're presenting.&nbsp; Shows typically decline over time and a fair number of lost viewers may simply be due to that.&nbsp; Presenting the 28% loss as you did implies that this is all due to the flap caused by dood's comments.&nbsp; That's ... specious.&nbsp; One can hope.&nbsp; I know I like it but the A&amp;E thing has me wondering just how many folks do.&nbsp; At the same time, the NFL is in the news for something sort of related and depending upon what article you're reading, there's either a lot of good news (players and the union expressing support) or bad (scouts dropping draft rank because of the revelation).&nbsp; It's a complex world and assumptions here can be dangerous.&nbsp; Meh, as far as you and I are concerned it's a positive for Google.&nbsp; I think we can both be happy with at least that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zombie_Babies, post: 6260317, member: 6750039"] And what percentage of viewers - and revenue generated by them - would A&E have lost if they bowed to the lesser pressure and canned the show? Oh yeah, 100%. ;) It's obvious that more - or, at the least, enough - folks wanted to see those guys than didn't. They're still on the air. And that said, ratings are a little more nuanced than you're presenting. Shows typically decline over time and a fair number of lost viewers may simply be due to that. Presenting the 28% loss as you did implies that this is all due to the flap caused by dood's comments. That's ... specious. One can hope. I know I like it but the A&E thing has me wondering just how many folks do. At the same time, the NFL is in the news for something sort of related and depending upon what article you're reading, there's either a lot of good news (players and the union expressing support) or bad (scouts dropping draft rank because of the revelation). It's a complex world and assumptions here can be dangerous. Meh, as far as you and I are concerned it's a positive for Google. I think we can both be happy with at least that. [/QUOTE]

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