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In Reply to: What happened to AMC's Bob Dorian?......Joe Bob Briggs? posted by RC on February 6, 2005 at 18:20:25:
When AMC began, a friend of mine who was a single mother told me she absolutely loved it, because she could let her little girl watch it all day and night and never see or hear anything "bad", since all they ran were American sound movies from 1934 to approximately 1965, films made under the Hayes Code.AMC's downfall began when Ted Turner started TCM. Many of the films that AMC had shown had been MGM/Warner Bros/RKO films owned by Turner. When he started his own competitive channel, AMC no longer had access to that huge backlog of films. Like dominos falling, that cost them viewers, and then they started running commercials between movies to make up for the viewer shortfall (cable channels charge for each viewer). The real collapse came when they started running commercials during the film. As y'all have pointed out, the commercial breaks come at awful times, are way too long, and way too frequent. It is probably just as well that Bob Dorian is no longer there. AMC is no longer the channel he used to host with such obvious affection. I hope he is doing well. I know from personal experience that it is very very hard to work for a company that is so different from what it was when you started there.
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