Adults switching channels away from kids’ shows discourages broadcasters from airing them.

Evidence

A predictor of what people watch is the channel to which their television set is tuned. Because of the continuity problem of adults switching channels from children’s shows, broadcasters shun children’s programming. They offer animated cartoons on Saturday mornings in which heroes beat up evildoers under the sponsorship of cereal, snack, and toy companies. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 980

Categorization

• CANDY: A pithy, counterintuitive economic logic: the ‘continuity problem’ of channel switching rather than content quality explains why kids get junk programming.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 980