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NEW YORK (AP) - More than 9 million people awakened early or stayed up late to watch Friday's TV coverage of Pope John Paul II's funeral from Rome, Nielsen Media Research said on Tuesday.
The bulk of those viewers, 8.8 million, tuned to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC, all of which carried the Mass live. An estimated 370,000 people watched on either Telemundo, Azteca America or Univision, Nielsen said.
The funeral began at 4 a.m. on the East Coast, 1 a.m. in the West. Nielsen had no immediate comparison of what television viewing normally is at that hour.
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