What the heck happened to HNN? It's been quite a while since I've tuned into the Readers' Digest version of CNN, but now with my new cable package, I have it and I'm absolutely annoyed by the changes to the format. The bottom half of the screen is taken up with: a marketwatch ticker, headlines, a weather map, and current times. This bottom half never disappears. The news anchors are relegated to the upper right hand corner of the screen. And to add to the annoyance, there are bullet points running along the left hand side of the screen. Good grief. It's enough to make anyone go back to Dan Rather.

BTW, Andrea Thompson, formerly of "NYPD Blue", is not so bad as an anchor. Given the format of the new screen, who is concentrating on the anchor person/reporter anyway? BTW, commercials still take up the full screen. Oh the irony...