Peter Lauria's story reports that Current TV's agreement with Time Warner stipulates that if the network fails to draw a minimum number of viewers over a quarter -- the Reuters report does not specify what the number is -- "financial penalties such as Current TV being required to increase marketing and promotion spending on the cable operator's systems are triggered." Missing that target over two quarters allows Time Warner, the nation's fourth-largest cable provider, to drop the network from its channel lineup entirely. "If it was not for Olbermann's show, which averaged a total of 177,000 viewers per night, Current TV likely would have missed Time Warner Cable's viewership benchmark, said one of the sources," Lauria writes. But he goes on to report that the 47,000 viewers Eliot Spitzer's Viewpoint has been pulling in have kept the network in compliance with Time Warner's quotas. The network debuted a new morning lineup in late March, boosting its ratings by 150 percent, Lauria notes.