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Cable News Audience Shrinks

Year Median total-day viewership, news channels (in thousands of viewers)
2008 2,019
2009 2,207
2010 1,905
2011 1,922
2012 1,938
2013 1,938
2014 1,798

Source: Nielsen Media Research

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