Art & Entertainment
A&E is an American pay television channel. It is the flagship television property of A&E Networks , a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company . The network is headquartered in New York City and operates offices in Atlanta, Georgia ; Chicago, Illinois ; Detroit, Michigan ; London, United Kingdom ; Los Angeles, California and Stamford, Connecticut . The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network , initially focusing on fine arts , documentaries (including its then-flagship series Biography ), and dramas (including imported series from the United Kingdom). In 1995, the network rebranded as A&E, in an effort to downplay the negative perceptions of arts programming and generally market the network as a "thought-provoking"...