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<text id=90TT3017>
<title>
Nov. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Media
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 12, 1990 Ready For War
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 64
Business Notes
MEDIA
Faint Signal At FNN
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<body>
<p> Financial News Network was an idea tailor-made for the
money-mad 1980s: a U.S. cable-TV channel providing a constant
stream of business programming and Wall Street statistics. Such
upscale, upbeat offerings as Money Talks and Power Profiles have
attracted 35 million subscribers. But as the economy slides into
the nervous '90s, capitalism's live wire is having capital
problems of its own. FNN has acknowledged that with $158 million
in debts and only $5 million in cash on hand, the network can
no longer meet its operating expenses. Most of the debt is tied
to the cost of leasing equipment for FNN:PRO, a data service
launched in July that includes delivery of FNN's material to
stock-quote terminals. At the same time, FNN is losing viewers
to NBC's Consumer News and Business Channel, which has gathered
17 million viewers in the past year and a half.
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</article>
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