UK comms regulator Ofcom published its latest report on public service broadcasting back in March:

Average annual hours of viewing to news, across all individuals in the UK, dipped sharply in 2006 to 91 hours, from 98 hours in 2005. However, this is likely to be in part due to a decrease in the overall hours of output from 7,311 hours in 2005 to 6,879 hours in 2006. Hours of news output do shift considerably from year to year depending on the news agenda.

So news viewing is down 7.1%, but news output is down 5.9%. That’s still a 1.2% drop in news viewing.