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June 2
P2+ Total Day
FNC - 781,000 viewers
CNN - 380,000 viewers
MSNBC - 206,000 viewers
HLN - 156,000 viewers
CNBC - 180,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC - 1,417,000 viewers
CNN - 501,000 viewers
MSNBC - 258,000 viewers
HLN - 279,000 viewers
CNBC - 123,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC - 209,000 viewers
CNN - 134,000 viewers
MSNBC - 85,000 viewers
HLN - 57,000 viewers
CNBC - 66,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC - 252,000 viewers
CNN - 126,000 viewers
MSNBC - 104,000 viewers
HLN - 96,000 viewers
CNBC -53,000 viewers
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GretaWire has the story of FNC’s Catherine Herridge, whose son needs a new liver. The situation is so dire that Herridge herself will donate a portion of her liver to her son…

I am proud to be Catherine Herridge’s colleague — what she is going to do in the next 24 hours is extremely difficult, but she is determined. She and her husband have an infant son — Peter — who is now about 3 or 4 months old. He needs a liver. He has been on the liver transplant list for his entire life of 3 or 4 months. He is failing to the point where he cannot wait any longer. He is sure to die if he does not get it soon… very soon. His mother, Catherine, our colleague at FOX, is now going to be his donor. Surgery begins within 24 hours of you reading this blog.

CNN announced this morning that Anderson Cooper 360 will be heading to the west coast next week to examine several issues…

Anderson Cooper 360° travels to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle for the week of June 12 to examine several of the hot button issues of particular concern to West Coast viewers, it was announced today by senior executive producer David Doss.

“With frequent remote broadcasts from New Orleans, along the U.S.-Mexico border and from the Middle East, we’ve committed not only Anderson but the tremendous correspondents and resources of CNN to examine firsthand what’s going on and who is accountable,” Doss said. “By making camp at the places where news happens, we produce a program that can truly tell important stories from all angles.”

Starting on Monday, June 12 in Los Angeles, anchor Anderson Cooper and his crew will explore the hotly contested debates over bilingual education and illegal immigration as well as a look at the city’s commuting and traffic difficulties. On Thursday, June 15, the program visits San Francisco to look at the gay marriage debate and other issues top of mind to that city’s residents. On Friday, June 16, in Seattle, Cooper examines national security issues from the perspective of the nation’s second largest port city.

Mediaweek’s Katy Buchman writes about the growing scope of the Fox News Radio network…

When Fox News first extended its brand to radio with a one-minute news service in April 2003, there were plenty of naysayers. The market seemed crowded with well-established news services: ABC with 2,500 affiliates and CBS with 1,600, as well as smaller nets such as NBC and CNN. Not only had the stalwarts locked up distribution on the biggest signals in the biggest markets, but building and maintaining a network news service was time-consuming and expensive. But Fox News saw an opening. It had established its news brand as a ratings juggernaut on cable; at the same time, listeners were hungrier for news, which can’t be commodified like music.

Broadcasting & Cable has Roger Ailes putting the kibosh on the ideas that Fox Business Channel is close to launching and that it would be bundled with Fox News Channel to operators…

Getting its News Corp. cousin DirecTV to sign on to the new rate along with a new channel should go smoothly, but cable and DBS operators will likely agree to carry Fox Business only if Fox News offers a lower-cal sweetener.

But Ailes is firm: “We’re never going to bundle it. Why negotiate down the price of Fox News? I know what the value of Fox News is. We’re not prepared to lower that rate.”

Reese blogs about a bunch of different subjects including selling CNN to CBS and Chris Matthews’ Hillary obsession…

On May 16th I reported that Bill Carter predicted a major shake up at CNN within 90-180 days. A reporter asked me about that. I suggested that before CNN arranged for its seventh top management shake up in six years it reconsider Time Warner’s decision not to sell CNN to CBS. I thought that having made six mistakes in six years it was time to sell out to somebody who knew something about the television news business, perhaps CBS. The reporter turned it into a good story and it was picked up on the internet and now I’m sure I’m back in hot water with my alma mater. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.