Your mileage on the best era of basic cable television likely revolves around your age. For example, some Gen-Xers might point to the late ‘90s MTV era that gave us cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head ...

Variety broke the news yesterday that Sarah Barnett was stepping down from her role as Head of AMC Networks. In the 11 years that Barnett worked for AMC, she established Sundance TV as an incubator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Dolan has stepped down as executive chairman of AMC Networks, marking the end of an era for the cable industry. Dolan, 93, ...

Basic cable networks have been facing the same audience fragmentation that broadcast networks have been facing since the 1980s. In 2009, ten basic cable networks reported percent double-digit audience ...

See which other non-premium networks got love from the critics. This week’s question: What’s is the best current basic cable network? Why? It’s not all prestige dramas, either, which is incredible and ...

AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan, center, is leaving his position following a 26-year tenure. When Josh Sapan took over as CEO of AMC Networks AMCX in the mid-1990s, the titular cable channel was known for ...

The TV world keeps transforming. Streamers soar; broadcast networks stumble. But what about all of those in-between — the basic channels that come free to cable subscribers? “The basic-cable business ...

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Charles Dolan has stepped down as executive chairman of AMC Networks, marking the end of an era for the cable industry. Dolan, 93, ranks among the earliest pioneers of cable TV. The telecom ...