Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan
Data updated 2026-05-15
- $341M
- Total assets
- 473
- Participants
- 96th
- Percentile by assets
- $721,409
- Avg per participant
Sponsored by A&e Television Networks, LLC. · New York · Information & Media
What the 2024 filing shows
A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan holds $341M for 473 participants - about $721,409 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, down 1.7% over the 2024 plan year.
- $341M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 473
- covered participants
- 96th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $721,409
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $6M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan
A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by A&e Television Networks, LLC., headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $341M in total end-of-year assets and covers 473 participants across the Information & Media industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 133091639, and the plan has been effective since 1988-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged down modestly from $347M at the beginning of 2024 to $341M at year-end - down 1.7%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $341M, with reported net income of -$6M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years A&e Television Networks, LLC. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $654M to $341M, a decline of 47.8%, while reported participants moved from 1,910 to 473 (-75.2%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $746M; the softest was 2024 at $341M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $654M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,910 participants; 2023 - $746M in assets across 2 plans covering 1,898 participants; 2024 - $341M in assets across 1 plan covering 473 participants.
By assets, A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan outranks 96% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 3.4x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.
Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.
How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.
Financial Summary (2024)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $347M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $341M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $341M |
| Net Income | -$6M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 133091639 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1988-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (A&e Television Networks, LLC.)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 1,910 | $654M |
| 2023 | 2 | 1,898 | $746M |
| 2024 | 1 | 473 | $341M |
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Ways to act on A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, A&e Television Networks, LLC. Retirement Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
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- A&e Television Networks, LLC.'s sponsor-wide assets have declined 47.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Information & Media plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2024.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 133091639.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.