"Period Of Impressive Growth"......how can we translate?
"Growth that was shockingly small"
"Growth that was no growth at all (i.e., it was shrinkage)"
"The period was short...we picked up two viewers who were stranded overnight at the bus terminal."
MSNBC is just as big a mess as CNN is right now. It's going to take them a while to right that ship, and if they keep making some of the questionable programming decisions they've been making for the past few years, it could be a long time before MSNBC is at all relevant.