{"id":2365006,"date":"2026-04-09T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2365006"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:10:08","slug":"as-the-cable-business-ebbs-amc-networks-takes-a-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/as-the-cable-business-ebbs-amc-networks-takes-a-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"As the cable business ebbs, AMC Networks takes a new name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>AMC Networks, the cable home of \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d and adaptations of Anne Rice\u2019s vampire novels, is getting a new name to reflect its shift to streaming and program production.<\/p>\n<p>In a legal filing, the New York based company announced Wednesday it will be called AMC Global Media, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which owns a suite of cable networks including AMC, We TV, SundanceTV, BBC America and IFC, said most of its domestic revenue now comes from streaming. <\/p>\n<p>AMC has more than 10 million paid subscribers to its services including Shudder, a platform for horror fans, and ALLBLK, which caters to Black audiences, an anime service called HIDIVE and All Reality which is devoted unscripted programming.<\/p>\n<p>AMC\u2019s production studio distributes programming to TV networks and streaming outlets internationally. The company has also sold shows domestically to outside streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Max.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new name reflects the ongoing transformation of our business into a global media and studio-driven company, with streaming out front as our leading source of domestic revenue,\u201d the company\u2019s chief executive Kristin Dolan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>AMC Networks has seen revenues decline as consumers forgo satellite and cable subscriptions and move to streaming for video entertainment. The decline in ratings has put pressure on adverting dollars as well. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s stock closed Wednesday at $7.55. It was trading at over $60 per share in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC Networks, the cable home of \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d and adaptations of Anne Rice\u2019s vampire novels, is getting a new name to reflect its shift to streaming and program production. In a legal filing, the New York based company announced Wednesday it will be called AMC Global Media, effective immediately. The company, which owns a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2365007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/As-the-cable-business-ebbs-AMC-Networks-takes-a-new.com2Fd32F752F6ab2258a4ca1ba1979bbd10a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365008,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365006\/revisions\/2365008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}