Summer Time – Cable Continues to Chip Away at Broadcast
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| August 26, 2013
Cable usually sizzles in the summer, and with only a few days remaining, it looks like this year was no exception. Household share for ad-supported cable was up more than 5 points from a year ago and more than 3x the combined 4 broadcast nets’ share, which was down 5 points from ’12, according to a Turner analysis of summer-to-date data from Nielsen. Here’s which networks came out on top this summer.
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