History NetworkDecay / Slipped

** [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools In this case]] it's a survival mechanism, as the simple graphic display of the weather they used to capitalize on is available at the press of a button on most digital cable services, the Internet (TWC owns Weather.com), cell phones, and even some ''game consoles''.[[note]]But not the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}. Its Forecast Channel was run by Weathernews Inc.[[/note]] [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], it got so bad in early 2010 when they announced that they decided to air movies that are "weather-related" (Including ''Film/{{Misery}}'', which despite a bad snowstorm starting off the chain of events, has nothing to do with weather whatsoever), that Dish Network [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/business/media/22weather.html?src=busln threatened to drop the channel]]. As a result, they've adopted a Bloomberg-style information frame with local weather info during the entertainment content. Still, this makes the Bloodhound Gang's line "gonna tape The Weather Channel so that I can watch it later" almost pathetically prophetic.

* The '''''New''''' TNN was the product of total abandonment by Viacom. When they acquired the country and bluegrass-flavored The Nashville Network, they tested the waters with younger-skewing programming such as ''[=RollerJam=]'' (basically UsefulNotes/RollerDerby but with UsefulNotes/ProfessionalWrestling tropes and {{Kayfabe}}) and later Wrestling/{{ECW}} on Friday nights (using them as a tentpole around motorsports and bull riding under the guide of extreme sports). Soon afterward, TNN started adding more films and off-network reruns too.

* In Atlantic Canada, there was ASN (Atlantic Satellite Network). Upon its launch, it was a sister channel to the ATV system of Creator/{{CTV}} affiliates in the Maritime provinces, now known as CTV Atlantic. In the early days, ASN was generally a local version of Citytv in Toronto, but carried some educational shows either produced by universities across Atlantic Canada or sourced from [=TVOntario=], such as ''The Polka Dot Door'' or ''Series/TodaysSpecial'', which themselves then disappeared, replaced by an Atlantic Canada version of Creator/{{Citytv}}'s ''Breakfast Television''. [[note]]Similar to Citytv, ASN carried newscasts, various syndicated shows, "Great Movies" in prime time, and even some cartoons.[[/note]] By 1997, after it was traded from CHUM to Baton Broadcasting/CTV, ASN generally remained the de facto Atlantic Canada version of Citytv, until the mid-2000s, when a large supply of programming sourced from CHUM declined, with more of its content supplied in-house by CTV, including ''Series/CanadianIdol'' and some sports coverage, partially to compensate for the loss of a CTV affiliate on basic cable in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2002. [[note]]Its CTV affiliate, CJON-TV in St. John's (branded as NTV), lost its CTV affiliation due to a dispute over fee payments.[[/note]] In 2008, after [=CTVglobemedia=] (now Bell Media) bought out ASN's former parent CHUM, it became an affiliate of the revamped A-Channel (later A) system, becoming A Atlantic, but continued to air ''Breakfast Television'' under license from the new owner of Citytv, Rogers. [[note]]As a condition of acquiring CHUM, [=CTVglobemedia=] sold Citytv to Rogers Communications.[[/note]] However, this is no longer the case, as the A system was renamed CTV Two in 2011, and the ASN/A Atlantic version of ''Breakfast Television'' was rebranded as ''CTV Morning Live'' (as part of a new franchise of local morning newscasts on CTV's stations on the west coast and on CTV Two Ottawa, which replaced the national ''Canada AM'').

** The Canadian version has tried to counter-balance the slippage of its parent by still producing more serious fare, such as the in-house ''Daily Planet'' and other series such as the aforementioned ''How It's Made'', ''Mighty Planes'' and ''Mighty Ships'' (documentary series focusing on the operations of notable planes and vessels), but has also contributed to the U.S. version's slippage with reality docuseries of its own (such as ''Highway Thru Hell''--a show following towing companies who operate along a B.C. stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway in the Rocky Mountains, and ''Jade Fever''). In 2018, Bell cancelled ''Daily Planet'', capping off a broadcast season where the channel had also begun to add more entertainment programming, such as ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' (already a staple of Creator/TheComedyNetwork) ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', and films on Friday nights. The network had already begun to dabble in scripted series with its Netflix co-production ''Series/Frontier2016''.

** Adult Swim has made one significant contribution to the recovery of CN as a whole. On AprilFoolsDay 2012, Adult Swim briefly replaced their normal Saturday night block with Toonami to rave reception, and after a huge fan campaign, brought back Toonami on a regular basis on May 26, 2012. Not only was Toonami once again the network's dominant action-animation brand, it essentially became the ''Midnight Run'', the direct predecessor of Adult Swim, in the process. Meanwhile, Adult Swim was free to focus exclusively on adult comedy, though original adult animation is still not as prominent as it used to be, despite Creator/{{TBS}} and even [=TruTV=] (both sibling networks) now producing live-action comedies of their own. While segregating anime and comedy into different blocks could be considered as Network Decay to some, [[note]](Though Toonami is still technically bundled with Adult Swim as a "network", since CN separated Adult Swim in the Nielsens in a similar fashion to Creator/NickAtNite to enable them to show more mature programming, and left Toonami with Adult Swim for that same reason, alongside that Toonami at the moment, airing only one night a week, doesn’t have enough programming hours to get the "sub-network" status as of yet.[[/note]] the transition was already happening during the channel’s AudienceAlienatingEra, and Toonami’s formula is more suited for showcasing non-comedic programming. One enduring problem, though, is a limited budget for licensing anime to air, meaning that titles like ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' and season 2 of ''Anime/TheBigO'' (both of which [adult swim] owns permanent rights to since they helped fund those anime back in the pre-decay days) are frequently inserted as timeslot filler. As the block regained its notoriety during the years, Toonami managed to get more recent and popular anime titles, subsequently moving filler programming to the dead of the night. However, the increased focus on popular ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' properties at the expense of more niche and eclectic shows from the [as] Action days and the earlier years of the revival has been somewhat polarizing.

** Adult Swim has made one significant contribution to the recovery of CN as a whole. On AprilFoolsDay 2012, Adult Swim briefly replaced their normal Saturday night block with Toonami to rave reception, and after a huge fan campaign, brought back Toonami on a regular basis on May 26, 2012. Not only was Toonami once again the network's dominant action-animation brand, it essentially became the ''Midnight Run'', the direct predecessor of Adult Swim, in the process. Meanwhile, Adult Swim was free to focus exclusively on adult comedy, though original adult animation is still not as prominent as it used to be, despite Creator/{{TBS}} and even [=TruTV=] (both sibling networks) now producing live-action comedies of their own. While segregating anime and comedy into different blocks could be considered as Network Decay to some, [[note]](Though Toonami is still technically bundled with Adult Swim as a "network", since CN separated Adult Swim in the Nielsens in a similar fashion to Creator/NickAtNite to enable them to show more mature programming, and left Toonami with Adult Swim for that same reason, alongside that Toonami at the moment, airing only one night a week, doesn’t have enough programming hours to get the "sub-network" status as of yet.[[/note]] the transition was already happening during the channel’s AudienceAlienatingEra, and Toonami’s formula is more suited for showcasing non-comedic programming. One enduring problem, though, is a limited budget for licensing anime to air, meaning that titles like ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' and season 2 of ''Anime/TheBigO'' (both of which [adult swim] owns permanent rights to since they helped fund those anime back in the pre-decay days) are frequently inserted as timeslot filler. As the block regained its notoriety during the years, Toonami managed to get more recent and popular anime titles, subsequently moving filler programming to the dead of the night.

** Spike would eventually be relaunched as the Creator/ParamountNetwork in January 2018, as part of Viacom's 2017 turnaround plan which positions the [[Creator/{{Paramount}} Paramount film studio]] as one of its six core brands. The new network was the culmination of the shifts that Spike had been undergoing since 2015, but instead of another makeshift answer to USA Network and Creator/{{TNT}}, Paramount Network is positioned as a home for premium scripted and unscripted programming a la Creator/{{AMC}} or Creator/{{FX|Networks}}. The new network would stumble out of the gate when its first scripted premiere, the mini-series ''Waco'', received mixed reviews. A month after the February launch of their next series, ''Series/{{Heathers}}'', on top of early critical buzz being negative, the series television premiere was pulled after the Parkland shooting took place. Then the Santa Fe, Texas shooting occurred and Viacom ended up dumping the series at the start of June to allow anyone else to take it off their hands. The pulling of ''Heathers'' also affected the second season of ''Nobodies'', as described below. The one break Paramount Network got so far was that its flagship drama ''Series/{{Yellowstone}}'' was successful enough to be renewed for a second season, while the channel and Creator/ParamountPlus has also picked up further spin-offs and other series by co-creator Creator/TaylorSheridan. Currently the Paramount Network schedule is filled with reruns of shows like ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and ''Series/{{Mom}}'' and original programming is non-existent, and with Viacom current in a state of turmoil (as Shari Redstone was busy trying to re-merge the company with Creator/{{CBS}} while at the same time trying to right the floundering Paramount film studio) things weren't likely to get much better.

* By 2013, Great American Country, a rival to Creator/{{CMT}}, had begun to increasingly air lifestyle programming (particularly library programs from other Scripps channels like ''Paula's Home Cooking'') as opposed to country music programming (when most music video viewing is on Website/YouTube, better to air anything that actually gets ratings). This came alongside a rebranding that aimed to define "country", as being a "sense of place" rather than referring to country music. After Discovery acquired Scripps Networks in 2018, Great American Country was pretty much Destination America 2 -- a redundancy that most likely led to Discovery's decision to divest the channel in 2021 to a new company called GAC Media--which is led by the former CEO of Creator/HallmarkChannel. In September, the channel rebranded as GAC Family and played the [[NetworkDecay/TotalAbandonment total abandonment]] card, becoming yet another "family"-oriented general entertainment channel stacked with sitcom reruns and [[SugarWiki/AHallmarkPresentation Hallmark-styled original movies]], and luring away Hallmark talent such as Creator/CandaceCameronBure.

* TBD began in February 2017 with a focus on original web content culled from Website/YouTube and other video sharing sites (including scattered multi-hour blocks of programming from international curated content network [[https://www.theqyou.com/ The QYou]]), mixed with independent films and documentaries; TBD became the OTA subchannel home of parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group’s short-lived [=KidsClick=] animation block in May 2018 (remaining until the block was discontinued in March 2019), and removed the [=QYou=] blocks from its lineup that September (initially replacing them with films and additional runs of its curated shows). Sinclair ceded operational control of TBD to Jukin Media (owner of WebVideo/FailArmy, The Pet Collective and other curated short-form content channels) in October 2018, resulting in the network gradually cutting shows from [[Creator/ReactMedia Fine Brothers Entertainment]], [[Podcast/NerdistPodcast Nerdist]]/Creator/GeekAndSundry, and other initial content partners in favor of more Jukin-sourced shows. Then in November 2021, TBD shifted to a split-format schedule of curated web content shows during the day and reruns of reality/competition series like ''Series/FearFactor'' and ''Series/Wipeout2008'' at night. 2023 saw a shift towards comedy programming, with the Jukin-produced viral video shows increasingly being minimized as TBD added shows like ''Series/WorldsDumbest'', ''Series/Punkd'', ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' and ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' as well as the original ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' clone ''The Laugh List'' to its lineup.