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Re: What happened to AMC?

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In Reply to: Re: What happened to AMC? posted by Gee LP on February 6, 2005 at 21:00:53:

It goes way beyond TCM giving the old AMC competition. Yes, there were certain titles that Turner owned and that would no longer be leased to them.
As I understand it, Cablevision now owns or owns a piece of AMC.
Demograpically it was decided to "dumb down" the station and appeal to a younger, less cinema sophisitcated audience with shorter attention spans. People with shorter attention spans actually prefer commercial interruptions.
AMC reports viewership is larger than the old format. Scary, huh?
I just wish they'd change their name to something else. "Jaws 2" is hardly an American Movie Classic.

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Re: The new, improved AMC! - Gee LP 23:22:00 02/07/05 (0)
I agree...from top to bottom, AMC has been "dumbed-down" in the worst, lowest-common-denominator way. Despite losing access to the MGM/Warners/RKO and 20th Century Fox libraries, they could have still made a go of it with the Paramount and Columbia libraries. They might even have taken a closer look at independent films made in the late 50s and early-to-mid 60s. But AMC chose to go in a different direction, and we see the results!
The idea that AMC's ratings are higher than ever...Jim Aubrey would be proud.

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