![]() ![]() Specialty programming tends to make slow strides in terms of overall growth and Wall Street doesn’t care much about the “everything to someone” approach when the someone pays, at most, $8.99 per month – the cost of AMC+ (it also includes access to Shudder and Sundance Now). We are instead trying to be everything to someone.” “Simply put, we’re not trying to be something for everyone. “We’re growing a business that is less speculative, less costly, and more sustainable than larger players trying to deliver something to everyone in a household,” AMC Networks’ interim CEO Matt Blank said on the company’s February earnings call. AMC has leaned into the new reality of cord-cutting and audience fragmentation by investing in diverse, niche streaming services. In the decade-plus since the debut of “The Walking Dead,” its massive success also proved to be an outlier: Short of NFL football and maybe Paramount Network’s “Yellowstone,” almost nothing on linear television today comes close to what the zombies drew in terms of audience size. ![]()
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