Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Estimates (ConRisk) (Details) - item	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2015
Subscriber revenue \| Distributors concentration
Concentration of Risk
Concentration of risk (as a percent)	54.00%	87.00%
Number of major distributors	3	5
Threshold for concentration of risk (as a percent)	10.00%	10.00%
Hallmark Channel subscribers \| Distributors concentration
Concentration of Risk
Concentration of risk (as a percent)	43.00%	45.00%
Number of major distributors	2	2
Threshold for concentration of risk (as a percent)	15.00%	15.00%
Programming rights \| Programming content providers concentration
Concentration of Risk
Concentration of risk (as a percent)	48.00%	67.00%
Number of programming content providers	2	4
Threshold for concentration of risk (as a percent)	10.00%	10.00%

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Represents the number of major programming content providers of the entity, of which each provided more than 10% of program content.

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Represents the threshold percentage for concentration risk, which the entity uses for disclosure.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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