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Here Are Cable News Network Ratings for October 2023

More Americans than usual watched cable news this month, with month-to-month growth in October primarily driven by live, breaking news coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Below are October 2023 Nielsen ratings for Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, followed by a duo of complete Nielsen-measured basic cable network rankers. Fox News Channel: Fox News marked yet another month as the most-watched basic cable network in total day, and finished No. 2 in primetime in October, just -54,000 total viewers behind ESPN, which continues to be anchored by the return of college football and NFL Monday Night Football. According to Nielsen live…
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PCRIC & WTW sell parametric quake insurance for submarine cable networks

The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) alongside broker WTW has designed a parametric trigger to provide a responsive disaster insurance policy to a Papua New Guinea operator of a submarine fiber optic cable network.The parametric insurance policy will provide rapid payouts after earthquakes that are expected to result in damage to the submarine fiber optic cable network surrounding Papua New Guinea (PNG), which is operated by state-owned enterprise PNG Data Co. With suitable coverage from the private insurance sector seen as unavailable, PNG Data approached PCRIC to explore the possibility of creating a bespoke insurance product to meet its…