Sniper story boosts cable news
The frightening, ongoing mystery of the Washington-area sniper is proving a compelling story for cable news networks, which have attracted their largest audiences of the year.
On Tuesday, Fox News Channel averaged 1.12 million viewers, CNN had 1.06 million and CNN Headline News had 294,000. For each network, it was the most-watched single day of the year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
That was the day after the sniper claimed its latest victim, 47-year-old FBI analyst Linda Franklin, outside a Home Depot in Falls Church, Va. The story dominated the news networks.
For all of the networks, Tuesday’s audience was bigger than it was for the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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