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Paula Zahn Now Sinks To 0.3 Friday Night Paula Zahn's CNN program suffered one of its lowest rated nights ever on Friday, when it registered only a 0.3 rating (292,000 households). "Sources are speculating on how much longer CNN will continue to pay $2 million for an anchor who's having disastrous ratings like these," an industry source wrote to CableNewser. And during a busy news period, no less! Only one edition of her show has performed worse -- a taped program on Thanksgiving night that averaged a 0.2... 4:08:18 PM

The Road between Hollywood and Heaven just got shorter "This is an incredible time for filmmaker's," says writer, director and producer Helen Gibson, "We've always known there was a market out there for Christian themed projects but it took someone like Mel Gibson to blow it wide open, capturing the movie industry by surprise."

I heard FOX News report that Paula Zahn had done a news report about how 50+% of exercisers do so while watching TV. Apparently, according to FOX, unbeknownst to Paula, this story originated in "The Onion". Has anyone seen a news story about this?

Anyone going to/did catch Medved tonight on Zahn's program debating The Passion with Tom Shales? He said he would be on at approximately 5:30 pacific time. I don't have CNN at my house so I can't catch it.

Upset by a new TV ad from the Club for Growth, about how Democratic candidate Howard Dean will raise taxes, on CNN on Thursday night Time magazine's Joe Klein derisively denigrated the conservative group as "a kind of lunatic fringe tax-cutting group" and dismissed them as "tax-cutting fanatics." On CNN's Paula Zahn Now, Klein made one of his regular appearances to discuss the campaign. Zahn brought up "a new Republican ad that's running in New Hampshire and Iowa basically linking Howard Dean to Michael Dukakis. Let's watch together." Clip of ad: "For three decades, Democratic presidential candidates have supported huge...

<p>THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.</p> <p>Rush Limbaugh's week went from bad to worse today. His name has surfaced in a drug investigation in Florida. According to law enforcement sources, he allegedly bought large amounts of prescription painkillers illegally. This after he quit under pressure as host of ESPN's Sunday NFL countdown for his racially charged remarks.</p>

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/cnn/0903/23primetime.html?urac=n&urvf=10643489956980.7520239648255277Link via Drudge CNN's prime-time ratings still down despite overhaul By CAROLINE WILBERT The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CNN still is putting the final touches on its new prime-time lineup, but the first two weeks' worth of ratings are down compared with last year. The network said Monday it has hired contributors -- including former Defense Department spokeswoman Victoria Clarke and Time magazine columnist Joe Klein -- for the 8 p.m. show, "Paula Zahn Now." Zahn's show drew an average of 598,000 viewers in its first two weeks since CNN relaunched it with the new name. That was down 25 percent from...

Revamping the Paula Zahn primetime hour on CNN has not helped the show in the least, according to preliminary ratings figures. Tuesday night -- the second night of Zahn's new show -- attracted just 427,000 households versus an average of 512,000 last month. By comparison, Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Channel drew 1,200,000 viewers.

Bum start for CNN's 'Zahn' and 'Cooper'Best hopes for stemming slide against Fox News By Kevin Downey     CNN's hopes of reclaiming No. 1 from Fox News Channel were dealt a major setback this week with the disappointing premieres of “Anderson Cooper 360” and “Paula Zahn Now.”      The audience for “Cooper” on Monday was down 47 percent in the 7 p.m. time slot occupied last year by “Crossfire,” to 319,000 people, while “Zahn's” audience of 508,000 people was down 45 percent in the 8 p.m. time slot briefly occupied by the canceled “Connie Chung.” All figures are based...

The Atlanta Journal Constitution asked people to write in to comment on Paula Zahn's new show. You should read the reviews. < snicker > If it were a Broadway show, it would close in 5 days.

This time they're serious. CNN's prime-time anchors, Paula Zahn and Anderson Cooper, officially launch their new shows Monday. Yes, they've both been on the air for months, but the Atlanta network is repackaging them in a bid to boost sagging prime-time ratings. "There is going to be a structure to the hour," producer Jim Miller said of Zahn's retooled show. "Viewers are going to understand the show in a way they couldn't this summer." Anderson Cooper's show will air at 7 p.m., followed by Paula Zahn's at 8. Zahn's straight news program will be called "Paula Zahn Now." Cooper's show,...

FNC O'REILLY 2.0 [RATING] FNC HANNITY/COLMES 1.4 FNC GRETA 1.4 FNC SHEP SMITH 1.1 FNC BRIT HUME 0.9 CNN LARRY KING/HOWARD DEAN 0.7 CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.6 CNN AARON BROWN 0.4 MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.3 MSNBC ABRAMS 0.3 MSNBC HARDBALL 0.3 MSNBC BUCHANAN/PRESS 0.2 MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.2

Sources say that the Cable News Network has offered Soledad O'Brian of NBC's Weekend Today the spot now occupied by Paula Zahn on 'Amercian Morning' opposite Bill Hemmer.Zahn's CNN countract is up next month

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category. Each received a paper ballot in late November and returned it within two weeks. Now, the winning quotes in 17 award categories: Media Hero Award “For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.” --...