As a follow-up to yesterday's posting about big media's increased interest in controlling the Net, Associated Press reports that television continues to lose viewers:

A Low-Water Mark for Broadcast TV Viewing

TV viewers must have taken to the beach: It was the least-watched week in recorded history for the four biggest broadcast networks.

CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox averaged 20.8 million viewers during the average prime-time minute last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. That sunk below the previous record, set during the last week of July in 2005.