Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Monday, September 29, 2003
More self-important, self-referential media coverage: the vastly overrated A&E channel used to make 40-percent margins. Now it's 35 percent. Plus it isn't drawing the young-and-stupid DEMOGRAPHIC the Freely Fraleighs need to cut their market shares. So the partners are talking of selling. They should be worried. You take the cable-subscriber annuity out of the picture and this godawful network doesn't exist. MTV, Comedy Central, USA, every bad TV channel wouldn't exist without us. It's time for a change in the menu to A LA CARTE.
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