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Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Fox continues its ascent in news programs

Since its debut 16 years ago, "Larry King Live" is not longer the most-watched cable news program at 9 p.m. thus allowing Fox News Channel to claim its lead in all of primetime as well according to this New York Times story (registration required). MSNBC had already begun to threaten CNN at least in terms of the quality of its news coverage, although I'm not sure where they stand amongst all this.

The Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," a politically oriented talk show with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes as co-hosts, can now make that claim.

According to new ratings data from Nielsen Media Research, "Hannity & Colmes" squeaked by "Larry King Live" with an average audience of 1.65 million people this month. Mr. King has been watched by an audience of 1.58 million people so far this month.

The reversal of fortune further solidified the Fox News Channel's new standing as the most-watched cable news network, a title it took from CNN for the first time in January. It has never looked back. "Larry King Live" had already lost its place as the top-rated program in all cable news to the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," with Bill O`Reilly as its host.

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Mihail helped co-found Blogit -- the first subscription-based, blog-for-pay venue -- but is no longer involved except as a user. He is an entrepreneur and published author who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, San Jose Mercury News, and on Salon.com and CNN etc. Mihail started this blog on July 15, 2002, and blogs about business models, technology and life in the global technology world. All views in this blog are his personal views.

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