The straw man is the nonsense about all channels being the same. Pretending that there's no difference in styles and programming between, oh, let's pick a handful of channels, say, Nickelodeon, Lifetime, Fox News, History, Food Channel, Discovery, Comedy Central and USA, actually demonstrates a total disregard for facts.
As for Weather Channel, you raised the statement that they were doing well, thus the burden is on you to prove that point. What I suggested is that remaining in operation does not mean any business is doing well. When I went to a local shopping center recently, one of the businesses was open and had staff visibly working at their desk. The next day I walked buy, and trucks were hauling away just about everything down to the bare walls. Using your logic, they crashed and burned in the seconds before the trucks pulled up, because, hey, the business was operating.