After its first month on Cable, the MNN fell short of expectations. The start up company created for American Moderates put forth their formula of a 24/7 angst free Good News channel got a Neilson rating of 9 in the April sweeps. Of the 9 viewers in their first 30 days, feedback interviews of the households showed that three passed away in hospitals where the MNN channel was on default with a bad remote. Three more died of boredom while watching, two shot themselves, and one said it was a good compliment to his favorite, the Golf Channel, where after five years of viewing nothing has happened yet either.