The channel's rolling-news hours are diminishing fast, eaten up by Victoria Derbyshire's unpopular new mid-morning show, dreary repeats of The Travel Show and Click on Sundays, and – as from June – even a simulcast of BBC World News's Outside Source in the plum 9pm slot.
It was led by efforts in New York, which hit the limits of a diminishing tax base and vanishing bank loans in 1975 and was pushed to the brink of municipal bankruptcy.
But it hasn't all been good news – a recent report suggested that open access posed a diminishing threat to traditional publishers.
At a time when the diminishing image of the Scottish game is crucial, this is bad news.
Or there could be more complicated underlying challenges within the polling industry, due for example to the fact that a diminishing number of people use landlines or that internet polls are ultimately based on a self-selected sample.
Have your say below and join us again on Monday when we find out just what we learned this weekend (my money's on a BIG lesson on the diminishing returns of hype...)...
Despite diminishing viewing figures and the impending loss of two of its judging panel, Simon Cowell's weekend entertainment goliath The X Factor has been renewed by ITV for three more years.
Traces of the passage exist only in a few maps, plans and photographs – and in a diminishing pool of memories.
Unionists might try to recalibrate that reality by highlighting points of detail, but for nearly a decade that had been subject to the law of diminishing returns.
Without their support he'll cascade downwards through the diminishing strata of celebrity, through bad sitcoms and reality shows and shopping-centre openings, until he hits rock bottom and ends up successfully running for London mayor.
For the past week, health authorities had noted that Romero Ramos' health was improving and said that the presence of the virus in her blood was diminishing.
