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Channel drift

Channel drift or network decay is the gradual shift of a television network away from its original programming in order to target a different, more profitable audience. Channel drift can also be a network's attempts to broaden its viewership by incorporating less specialized content. This drift often results in a shift from informative or artistic…

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Channel drift

Nodes220
Edges219
Triples96
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009091
Components1

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Channel drift

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related to Counterexamples · 30
Channel drift → April, CBN, CBN Satellite Service, CBN's, Channel, Citing, Club, DirecTV, Dish Network, Family Channel, Following, For, Friday-night, In, In January, International Family Entertainment, January, Launching, Life, Living
related to Cable · 22
Channel drift → American Pickers, Animal Planet, Ax Men, Channel, Chicago-centered, Conversely, History Channel, Ice Road Truckers, March, National Hockey League, NBC Sports Network, NBCSN, Networks, NewsNation, Outdoor Life Network, Pawn Stars, Some, Tanked, The, This
related to Broadcast · 17
Channel drift → American, Beginning, CBS, During, Golden Age, National Educational Television, NET, NET/PBS, One, PBS, Public Broadcasting Act, Since, Starting, Such, Television, The, Vice President Fred Silverman

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channel programming network television drift shows programs pbs news began original cable content toward mtv also networks format channels reruns

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Pawn Starsinstance ofexamples on the History Channel include shows0.80text
American Pickersinstance ofexamples on the History Channel include shows0.80text
and Top Shotinstance ofexamples on the History Channel include shows0.80text
Animal Planet offers the show Tankedinstance ofA channel0.80text
Lawinstance ofand to allow stretching the network's definition of appropriate programming to include content0.80text
Cozi TVinstance ofnetworks0.80text
MeTV have emerged to fill the gapinstance ofnetworks0.80text
programming mainly television shows from the 1950sinstance ofnetworks0.80text
1960sinstance ofnetworks0.80text
Forensic Files.The drift of channels to lineups dominated by rerunsinstance ofshowing programs0.80text
classical dramasinstance ofrather than formats0.80text
the followinginstance ofThis perspective led to the introduction of formats0.80text

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