Barnes of Fox Business is retiring from TV
Peter Barnes, who has worked for Fox Business Network since it started in October 2007, is retiring from television news. “Peter, we are all going to miss you,” said Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in a segment Thursday morning. “I certainly loved working with you here at Fox Business Network and before that, at CNBC.” […]
Fox Business tops CNBC in first quarter
Fox Business Network recorded more viewers as measured by Nielsen in the first quarter of 2017 than rival CNBC, reports Joe Concha of The Hill. Concha writes, “Fox Business’s March performance marked its sixth month as TV’s top business network as it registered an average of 212,000 viewers from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., while CNBC […]
Fox Business Network hires Carrasco
Fox Business Network has hired Tracee Carrasco to be a general assignment reporter. She will start May 1 and work in its New York headquarters. Since June 2013, Carrasco served as a general assignment reporter for WCBS-TV and WLNY 10/55 in New York. Prior to WCBS-TV, Carrasco worked as a reporter at WKRN-TV, the ABC […]
What’s behind the success at Fox Business
Steven Perlberg of Buzzfeed writes about the success at Fox Business Network. Perlberg writes, “That Fox Business’s leap in the ratings correlates with the Trump phenomenon is no coincidence. Trump has been a boon for many TV networks since he first entered the presidential race, and he continues to watch (and live tweet) cable news regularly. […]
Fox Business success is due to Trump coverage
Andrew Kirell of The Daily Beast writes that the ratings success of Fox Business Network is due to its increasing coverage of politics and President Donald Trump. Kirell writes, “The network has cemented itself as a reliable defender of Trump’s overall agenda and a ’round-the-clock foe of the bogeymen that also plague the collective consciousness of […]
Fox Business tops CNBC for fifth straight month
Fox Business Network topped CNBC in viewership during the business day for the fifth consecutive month, reports David Bauder of the Associated Press. Bauder writes, “FBN averaged 218,000 viewers during the hours between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in February, an increase of 59 percent over February 2016. CNBC, meanwhile, dropped from 212,000 to 182,000 in the […]
“Bulls and Bears” pays tribute to Buttner
The Fox News show “Bulls and Bears” paid tribute on Saturday to its former host Brenda Buttner, who died earlier this week at the age of 55. Said Dagen McDowell, who sat in for Buttner on Saturday: “She made us all better people, in work and in life. Brenda brought boundless energy and joy to everything […]
Buttner, Fox News biz journalist, dies at 55
Brenda Buttner, the longtime host of Fox News’ “Bulls & Bears,” died Monday after a battle with cancer, reports Kate Feldman of the New York Daily News. She was 55. Feldman writes, “The financial reporter, who graduated from Harvard University in 1983 and spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, got her professional […]
Fox Business continues to report strong ratings
Joe Concha of The Hill writes about the strong ratings at Fox Business Network and interviewed anchor Stuart Varney. Concha writes, “CNBC did top Fox Business in business-day ratings — 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. — 42,000 to 32,000 in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic. Fox Business, however, grew 45 percent year over year compared […]
Bartiromo on the early days of stock exchange coverage
A.J. Katz of TVNewser.com spoke with Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo about her career and leaving CNBC. Here is an excerpt: TVNewser: Take me through those earliest days at the NYSE: Bartiromo: It was pretty incredible. Back then, we didn’t have TV news in all of the trading desks and the access that you have today. It […]
