Block A&E on your TV; use parental controls to lock it out or delete it from your channel list

[ZRT2209]

on TIVO you can give three red "thumbs down" to any and all A&E programs as well

[tsuki]

1. Cut the cable cord. nt

[krawhitham]

2. unless you have a nielsen box blocking a channel is dumb

It might make you feel better but other than that it is useless

[ZRT2209]

4. I have a feeling they collect data on blocked channels

this is the age of spying, after all

[itsrobert]

12. Neilsen box ratings is old tech

data from cable boxes and satellite boxes come back to the network and advertiser almost in real time. Views on smart phones, portable devices, computers, etc are also tracked. Welcome to Big Brother.

[MrMickeysMom]

3. I'd like a message to go viral on that.

I don't bother with A&E and don't have tiro or need parental controls. I'd just like to ask the world what they think is more important… watching the shit that's on it, or stimulating their mind in oh-so-many other ways…

Can't find too many people who know what's going on in the world, but they can sure vote on Facebook or on tv for dancing with the stupid or duck pimps who aren't even real red necks.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Done.

[nyquil_man]

6. Why block a channel I don't watch in the first place? nt

[ZRT2209]

9. because I bet they track the blocking data

[nyquil_man]

10. If they track that, they probably track the viewing data too,

whoever they are.

[last1standing]

7. What good will that do when the vast majority here doesn't watch A&E to begin with?

I think a better plan is to publically boycott A&E's advertisers. Does anyone have a list?

[anti partisan]

8. Could this have been a manufactured publicity stunt?

Regardless, bringing this story up in a positive or negative light could be increasing viewership. Not to mention that this whole Duck Dynasty story is just a dog and pony show to me, distracting us from more important issues.

Better solution: ignore A&E and don't talk about or watch Duck Dynasty!

[Barack_America]

11. Can't I just continue not watching it?

Along with all of the other ridiculous redneck and white trash shows scattered all over cable?

[diabeticman]

13. When my wife and I had cable we used block for FAU news. My wife just sighed when all this

started and said Remember when the A&E actually mean Arts and Entertainment. Remember when they had Breakfast with the Arts... They actually had thoughtfully shows...

I use to make fun of my wife for liking that channel now I wished they actually went back to that sort of channel. I would never make fun of it again.

[ZRT2209]

14. +1