They reinstated him because they thought that would be the most financially profitable direction for the corporation.And they had to reinstate him because............
Bullshit.
No top executives make decisions solely on the basis of profits, a myth long disproven to anyone that has to work with these numb skulls. Way far too often they make stupid decisions on the basis of resentment, faction, nepotism, hoping for sexual favors, etc.
They are human beings with all the attendant weaknesses and most often playing with fortunes they themselves did not create and this causes them to be lacking in confidence and ridden with guilt for having something that they did not earn without a lot of help from friends, family and others.
Unmitigated horseshit. A for-profit business works on one goal only and that is the bottom line. Everything A&E did, and does, and will do in future, is based on whoring to its advertisers. Period. Corporations do not have "confidence", "guilt trips" or emotional hissyfits. That's your job.