OLD Media Moves

How “Wall Street Week” landed at Fox Business

April 1, 2016

Posted by Chris Roush

"Wall Street Week"Brian Flood of The Wrap writes about how Fox Business Network acquired the “Wall Street Week’ show.

Flood writes, “After 30-odd episodes of the quasi-infomercial version, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes liked what he saw, took over the show and moved it to Fox Business Network.

“‘Roger was aware that the brand still had tremendous value,’ Kaminsky said.

[contextly_sidebar id=”q1yM4VN4NcsxPaAPn4lW6bfb2zlXMRXl”]”Scaramucci and Kaminsky, a senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, are both self-proclaimed control freaks in other aspects of life, but don’t mind letting Ailes call the shots when it comes to ‘Wall Street Week.’

“‘We have enough control where I’m totally satisfied, but we’re also picking up the benefit of their [Fox’s] strategy, set design and programming ideas.’ Scaramucci said. ‘The only thing that Roger said was ‘let’s move it back to the original time spot.”

“Scaramucci and Kaminsky loved the nostalgic idea and welcome constructive criticism from Ailes and senior executive vice president Bill Shine.”

Read more here.

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