Most likely, the biggest factor behind CNBC's mobile traffic is the avid monitoring of financial markets that inspired the portfolio-destroying economic meltdown. The cable network itself points to its range of mobile offerings including real-time stock quotes, charts and updated news and analysis.
If the TV ratings are any guide, "Daily Show" host Stewart's skewering of CNBC for missing the economic crisis haven't hurt either. In the first two months of 2009, CNBC had an average of 282,00o viewers at any given time -- up from 264,000 a year ago, according to Nielsen.--Mark Walsh