Nah, same amount of news, way less competition for eyeballs back then. CNN had its best commercial times when the Internet was still very small. For years, if

Nah, same amount of news, way less competition for eyeballs back then. CNN had its best commercial times when the Internet was still very small. For years, if something important happened in the middle of the day, CNN was kind of it, in terms of finding out what was going on quickly. If it was REALLY big, the networks might break into their daytime programming, but that was a very high bar.