CNBC’s digital ops post record March
Business news channel CNBC‘s digital operations reported record numbers in March. CNBC.com had its best month ever in both uniques and page views. According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 7.8 million unique users last month, an 83 percent increase compared to the same time period last year. The site […]
CNBC's digital ops post record March
Business news channel CNBC‘s digital operations reported record numbers in March. CNBC.com had its best month ever in both uniques and page views. According to the latest data from comScore Media Metrix, the site was visited by 7.8 million unique users last month, an 83 percent increase compared to the same time period last year. The site […]
Buffett does “snow job” on business media
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is the “greatest PR person of recent times” and has “managed to achieve a snow job that has conned virtually everyone in the press,” Wisdom Tree Investments Chairman Michael Steinhardt told CNBC Tuesday. “It is remarkable that he continues to do it.” Later in the segment, Steinhardt told those interviewing […]
Buffett does "snow job" on business media
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is the “greatest PR person of recent times” and has “managed to achieve a snow job that has conned virtually everyone in the press,” Wisdom Tree Investments Chairman Michael Steinhardt told CNBC Tuesday. “It is remarkable that he continues to do it.” Later in the segment, Steinhardt told those interviewing […]
CNBC and its Berkshire Hathaway coverage
John Hopkins of InvestedCentral.com has an interesting take on CNBC‘s coverage Thursday of the sudden departure of a Berkshire Hathaway executive being groomed to succeed Warren Buffett given that the business news network’s Becky Quick has cultivated a strong relationship with Buffett. Hopkins writes, “Now, if you listen to the the 30 minute interview conducted […]
Fox Business Network vs. CNBC in daily ratings
Bill Gorman of TVbytheNumbers.com has ratings data for Fox Business Network and CNBC that shows how they performed on Tuesday. Fox Business announced last week that it would be rated publicly by Nielsen for the first time. The numbers show that for the day, CNBC had an audience of 169,000 viewers while the three-and-a-half-year-old Fox […]
The most influential business news organizations
Reuters ranks No. 3, The Wall Street Journal No. 4 and Bloomberg News No. 5 in a ranking of news organizations who have had their reporting cited the most in Google News and Google Blog searches in the past month, according to data compiled by New York Times blogger and statistics-dicer extraordinaire Nate Silver. Jeff […]
Fox Business chipping away at CNBC
Chris Ariens of TV Newser interviewed Fox Business Network executive vice president Kevin Magee about the business news channel’s plans to close the gap in viewership with leader CNBC. Here is an excerpt: TVNewser: FBN is growing, but CNBC still has about 5 times the audience on an average day. What are you doing to […]
CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg Television and market share
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE With Fox Business Network announcing Tuesday that it would start having its shows tracked by Nielsen in terms of audience size, Talking Biz News decided to see what available information was already out there in terms of business news audiences on television. Data is already available for CNBC and Fox Business […]
Fox Business to be rated by Nielsen
One of the problems in comparing CNBC to its main competitor, Fox Business Network, is that Fox Business has not had its shows rated by Nielsen, the primary tracker of television audiences. That will soon end. Fox Business Network announced Wednesday it will become a full service client of Nielsen Media Research beginning March 28. […]
