Toward the end of the quarter, the news wasn't so good.

Despite the continuing saga of who killed Laci Peterson, which has
been a hot topic for cable with less news coming out of Iraq, viewers
started to tune elsewhere in June, as all three networks dropped from
their May figures.

Month-to-month, Fox was off 20%, CNN was off 15% and MSNBC was off
13%.



From The Los Angeles Times, 7/2/03:
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/s...2.3jul02.story

Viewers tuning out cable news

By Elizabeth Jensen

The war in Iraq was very good news to the cable news channels, which
saw substantial gains for the second quarter of the year.

But holding on to those gains in the slow news month of June proved
difficult.

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Time to look elsewhere.

Harry