Ratings: Canned 'Capital Report' #2 On CNBC

On the day TVNewser broke the news that CNBC had cancelled 'Capital Report,' the program was the second highest-rated on the network. Capital Report averaged 78,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo Thursday, tied with Power Lunch and topped only by Morning Call, which averaged 83,000 in the demo. The show's last day is November 12...

Ratings: McEnroe's Lowest-Rated Show Ever

John McEnroe had his worst night ever on Thursday. The beleaguered CNBC talk show delivered only 8,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo. It was the "lowest-rated telecast in its history," an insider notes. He was down 81% from his Q3 average, and his Q3 average was awful...

> Also: From the NYDN: "Monday's installment of 'McEnroe'...ranked 833rd out of the 834 shows that aired on all of cable television in the period from 6 a.m. Monday through 3 a.m. Tuesday. 'McEnroe' beat only the Food Network's 'How to Boil Water.'"

FNC Says Mis-Quote 'Mistake;' Critics Cry 'Malice'

FOXNews.com posted fabricated quotes from Carl Cameron attributed to John Kerry yesterday, and it set off a a fresh round of cries about the network's bias. This AP story quotes the fake news item.

FNC's statement said: "The item was based on a reporter's partial script that had been written in jest and should not have been posted or broadcast. We regret the error, which occurred because of fatigue and bad judgment, not malice."

Many liberals have jumped on the incident as a clear example that "Fox News is ridiculously biased against the Kerry campaign," as the Talking Points Memo says. The Newshounds are mad: "The proper response from Fox would have been to fire Carl Cameron on the spot," they say.

"His actions were far worse than anything CBS and Dan Rather even thought about doing and he and his family can be directly related to the GOP," one e-mailer said this morning. "Let's all sit back and see if CNN & MSNBC and every other broadcast network spends countless hours talking about Fox and Cameron the way they did Dan Rather and CBS." Cory Bergman at Lost Remote has an interesting view of it: "The more I think about it, the more I'm aghast with Cameron's outrageous, adolescent mistake," he says...

Post-Debate 'Daily Show' Breaks Record

"Thursday night's post-debate episode of 'The Daily Show' was seen by 2.4 million viewers - a new series record, according to figures released by Comedy Central," TVWeek reports. "The Daily Show won its time slot against all of cable in viewers 18 to 34, and placed second to Fox News in total viewers."

> Friday morning: "Daily Show Drifts Into Real News"