Chung holds her own
By Allison Romano -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/26/2002 5:00:00 AM
Connie Chung made her much-anticipated CNN debut Monday night to ratings that matched the news net's prime time average last week.
Chung, nervously bobbling her words a few times, marched on to a 0.9 rating with about 750,000 households.
CNN averaged the same mark in prime for the week of June 17 to June 23.
Ratings for Connie Chung Tonight were up 83% from CNN's mark the same Monday last year.
It also was 23% better than CNN's previous Live From on Monday nights this year.
Chung tripled her lead-in, Crossfire, which hobbled to a 0.3 rating.
Chung was bested by her chief competition, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, who harvested a 2.0 rating and 1.6 million households.
MSNBC's current 8 p.m. The News with Brian Williams, collected a 0.5 rating with 413,000 households.
The first edition of Connie Chung Tonight, airing from network's sparkling new New York City studios (reportedly built for $15 million), featured
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an interview with the brother-in-law relative of the fire service worker accused of setting the Colorado wildfire near Denver
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a feature on accused pedophile who wrote to Dear Abby for advice and was turned in
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comedian and host of Comedy Central's Daily Show Jon Stewart
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members of the U.S. men's soccer team
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