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...A year after Licht’s exit, CNN has continued to trail well behind MSNBC and Fox News for viewers....
...The move immediately drew outrage from staff and viewers — particularly at MSNBC, the left-leaning cable news channel owned by NBCUniversal — over McDaniel’s role in supporting Trump’s false claims that...
...Millicom is based in Luxembourg but operates predominantly in Latin America under its Tigo brand for mobile and cable services, serving about 50mn customers....
...They added that any successful deal would face multiple challenges, including how to deal with Paramount’s cable business....
...Tuesday’s Republican primary contest between Trump and Nikki Haley in New Hampshire drew just 6mn viewers between 8pm and 11pm across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, the top cable news channels....
...Every week the big cable news networks in the US — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — blast out press releases touting some kind of ratings achievement....
...It averaged 1.3mn viewers a day in the first quarter, compared to just 467,000 for CNN and 814,000 for MSNBC....
...And yet not all cable news viewers would have been able to judge the tone of his address, because not all of them were shown it....
...CNN has fallen to a distant third place in the ratings, behind rivals Fox News and MSNBC....
...Earlier this year, former BBC director-general Mark Thompson became chief executive of cable TV news channel CNN, while Emma Tucker was named as editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal in December last...
...But CNN’s ratings have fallen well behind rival networks MSNBC and Fox....
...While all the US cable news networks have suffered shrinking audiences in the past few years, CNN has fallen to a distant third place in ratings behind rivals Fox News and MSNBC....
...valuation: the group, appreciating that the demand for media rights for sports would soon explode, signed a lucrative 25-year pay-TV contract worth more than $8bn with Charter Communications’ Time Warner Cable...
...The cable news era that Turner launched is drawing to a close....
...Its broadcast and cable TV network business grapples with falling ad revenue and a shrinking subscriber base. Comcast however believes Hulu is worth much more....
...Passengers press a button to choose their destination before entering a stationary cabin that manoeuvres under its own electrical power before attaching to the main cable....
...On September 30, Iger’s team will begin a months-long process with Comcast to determine the value of the cable giant’s minority stake in Hulu, setting the stage for Disney to purchase it and gain full ownership...
...Licht’s comments were in line with Zaslav’s goal to reposition the cable news pioneer as a less “activist” network than it had been in the Trump years, a stance that was also advocated by the cable billionaire...
...But getting there as a cable news channel is very difficult. Cable news rose on outrage content, generated first by Fox and later by MSNBC....
...Licht, who previously had successful stints in programming at MSNBC and Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, joined CNN in May of 2022....
...In the US, cable television has been declining steadily as streaming has taken hold of audiences....
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...By last year the figure had dropped to 687,000 viewers in prime time, compared to 2.2mn for Fox and 1.1mn for MSNBC....
...Far from uniting the nation, US television channels such as Fox News and MSNBC appear to exist in entirely parallel cognitive universes....
...We would design around it by putting the reactor far away or building up a berm of the lunar regolith to protect the crew members and distributing the power via long cables....
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