For those of you that have Direct TV here is some sad news regarding Esquire Network that I learned this morning. As of December 15th Esquire Network will no longer exist on Direct TV and it is not known what channel will replace Esquire Network but this news is all I learned so far
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Dish Network removed it off their lineup a couple months ago too.

It doesn't bother me any. I've never watched that channel anyways.

Ed.

There's an Esquire Network?

There's an Esquire Network?


Apparently.

Seems almost no one's heard of them.

Kind of like that floundering hockey team of yours. :D

Niche cable channels are going the way of the dodo. It's also obvious stuffing the schedule with programming that appeals to wider audiences isn't going to save them either despite what NBCUniversal and Viacom think. Providers are asking why they need multiple channels featuring the same content.

How many times a day can a person watch Everybody Loves Raymond!

How many times a day can a person watch Everybody Loves Raymond!

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http://www.avclub.com/article/esquire-network-going-digital-only-248670

Here’s some bad news for fans of Parks & Recreation marathons: According to Variety (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/esquire-network-1201962261/), the Esquire Network will be shutting down later this year, with all of its original content moving over to a “direct-to-consumer digital service” through the Esquire website. This comes after AT&T’s DirectTV and U-Verse services both dropped the Esquire Network last month, with negotiations to prevent Charter Communications from doing the same apparently not going so well. The Variety report says that Esquire lost a quarter of its subscribers when it was dropped by AT&T, and it would become “no longer viable” for owner NBCUniversal to keep it on the air if Charter were to do the same. So, rather than face that indignity, NBCUniversal has simply decided to pull the proverbial plug.

Variety adds that the network’s ratings were never good, but they did steadily increase every year since it launched in 2013. Still, no other companies were interested in buying it and it won’t be rebranded into something else, so it’s simply going to die. The Esquire Network will continue to broadcast “through the summer,” and Esquire’s digital platform will launch in the spring.

Esquire Network was ok when they showed some of the old Style Shows but they dropped all of them not too long after they started the network.

The network was so bad that even though I only get local channels on my cable but the Esquire channel oddly was available and not encrypted for 18 months, I could barely care to watch the channel at all.

I was hoping NBC maybe would put way more classic shows on it but I guess they don't really want competition with Cozi.

complete waste of a channel, but whatever they replace it with won't be any better.