CNN Airs Ford's Views on Iraq and ESPN Scores Top Cable Ratings of All Time

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 4, 2007 -- CNN Airs Ford's Views on Iraq

A never-before-aired interview with the late President Ford in which he criticized President Bush's decision to invade Iraq was broadcast Thursday on CNN. In the interview, conducted by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward two years ago and aired on Larry King's show, Ford said, "I don't think if I had been president on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly, I don't think I would have wanted the Iraqi war." Woodward said that Ford had insisted that the interview be embargoed until "I did a book on him or Ford died." Woodward did not elaborate on why the former president did not want to have his views about the war made public.

ESPN Scores Top Cable Ratings of All Time
The 17 most-watched television shows on cable in 2006 were the 17 Monday Night Football games televised by ESPN, the cable sports network said Thursday, citing ratings by Nielsen Research. The games averaged 12.33 million viewers, with more than 109 million tuning in at some point during the season, ESPN said. No other series in cable TV history has ever captured such ratings, it concluded.

The top ten shows of last week according to Nielsen Research (delayed because of the holiday): 1. NFL Sunday overrun, CBS, 10.3/24; 2. Deal or No Deal (Monday), NBC, 9.5/15; 3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 8.4/14; 4. CSI: Miami, CBS, 8.2/14; 5. CSI: NY, CBS, 8.1/14; 6. Identity (Monday), NBC, 7.6/11; 7. Shark, CBS, 7.1/12; 8. NCIS, CBS, 7.0/11; 8. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 7.0/11; 10. 60 Minutes, CBS, 6.8/16.

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