Media companies took a beating as the stock market plunged on renewed fears of a tariff war between the U.S. and China.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly three points and most media companies were lower to a similar degree.
Netflix, weakened by its most recent earnings report that shows subscriber growth was less than expected, dropped 3.51%.
Among the programmers, CBS plunged 2.66%, Comcast dropped 2.44%, The Walt Disney Co. was down 2.41%, Viacom was down 1.61%, Fox declined 1.58%, and Discovery fell 0.85%.
AT&T was down 1.995. Dish fell 1.43% and Charter dipped 1.28%
Apple was down 5.24%, while Google dropped 3.49%.
In the measurement space, Nielsen fell 3.74% and Comscore was down 4.4%.
