Martin also flagged “recent general-entertainment trends.” Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes added that TNT and TBS have endured “some ratings softness in September and October, and we’re not happy about it,” before noting that the recent declines in prime-time viewership seem to be a direct result of scheduling anomalies. "We had fewer premiere episodes on TNT and TBS ended up with three fewer MLB [playoff] games than they had a year ago" Bewkes said. TNT and TBS were down 11 percent in prime in October, per Nielsen ratings data.
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