Arts and entertainment network biography of albert

American cable and satellite television network

Television channel

A&E (previously known in full as the Arts & Entertainment Network) is an American cable and satellitetelevision network and the flagship property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Walt Disney Company (through the Disney General Entertainment Content division of Disney Entertainment).

Arts and entertainment network biography of albert

A&E was launched on February 1, 1984 as a block on Nickelodeon. The network originally focused on fine arts, documentaries, dramas, and educational entertainment. Today, it deals primarily in non-fiction programming, including reality television, true crime, documentaries and miniseries, thus de-emphasizing its full name in the process.

Since 1985, it is no longer a programming block, due to its joint owners spinning it off into a 24-hour channel while Nickelodeon later launched Nick at Nite to fill in the time slot A&E formerly held. As of November