# Hallmark Channel buckles to pressure **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 15, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912 "2019-12-15T21:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/81 "2019-12-27T03:20:16Z")
Did everyone at least watch on Christmas Day? You know, where they play Xmas music, and have all the cute little animals playing in front of the fireplace? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/82 "2019-12-27T03:51:18Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > Wait, wait, wait… > > United States 2019 population is estimated at 329,064,917 people at mid year according to UN data. [[United States Population (2024) - Worldometer](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/)] > > This group claiming to comprise less than 1/3rd of 1% of the US thinks they can dictate advertising content for a television broadcaster trying to serve a nationwide audience?!? Perhaps they need to claim to be…I dunno…the \*\*\*Hundred \*\*Million Moms Club \*or something somehow impressive. The number is already [somewhat](https://www.truthorfiction.com/how-many-moms-are-in-one-million-moms/) [exaggerated](https://www.glaad.org/blog/its-not-one-million-its-one-meddling-mom). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/83 "2019-12-27T06:39:31Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I did [some checking](https://www.broadcastingcable.com/post-type-the-wire/hallmark-channel-once-again-reigns-as-indisputable-leader-in-holiday-programming), they do amazingly well with Women 18-49 and Women 25-54. We know advertisers care less about seniors, so Hallmark made a terrible business decision bowing to the pressure in the first case. > > Checking many sites, their viewership does skew old but it also brings in a lot of the primary target audience that advertisers love. I am surprised by the success of their cheesy movies. Speaking of cheesy movies (_the worst we can find_), now that Netflix is putting the kibosh on MST3K, maybe the Hallmark Channel would be interested in torturing Jonah and the bots for a season or two… ---
**Author:** ![Ludwig1251](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Ludwig1251](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludwig1251)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/84 "2019-12-27T10:56:43Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Bigotry is not a political view. Being angry at seeing a commercial featuring a same sex couple is not a reaction to politics. A good sugarcoat might make bigots and otherwise fearful, hateful people feel better about themselves, but politics this ain’t. Bigotry is a political sword and buckler. I use it (against the self-yclept “Right” all the time. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/85 "2019-12-27T18:11:31Z")
I would say that bigotry is politically _related,_ but not actually political. A lot of people on the right are bigots, but a lot of fundamentalists are also bigots, so you could just as easily, and just as incorrectly, say that bigotry is a religious view. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912/86 "2019-12-27T19:15:41Z")
I just saw that commercial on the USA Network, but it omitted the kiss. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hallmark-channel-buckles-to-pressure/844912.md?page=4)