How one business journalist has covered Brexit
Ashley Webster joined Fox Business Network in September 2007 as the overseas markets editor. Webster spent the previous 10 years as the main anchor of the Emmy Award-winning nightly newscast on WZTV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. Before joining WZTV-TV, Webster was anchor for two daily newscasts at WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. There, he received an […]
Fox Business remains fastest-growing cable channel
Fox Business Network, which ended 2015 as the fastest-growing cable news channel, has continued that growth in the first half of 2016, according to Nielsen Media Research. The eight-year-old network reported an average of 128,000 total viewers during the 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. business day slot, an increase of 113 percent, making it once […]
Fox Business ratings tops for Brexit
Fox Business Network‘s special coverage of the British referendum to leave the European Union recorded more viewers than rival CNBC on Thursday evening, according to Nielsen Media Research data. However, CNBC had more viewers in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic. The special edition of “Varney & Co.” anchored by Stuart Varney on Fox Business averaged 238,000 […]
Fox Biz’s Smith interviews another John Browne
Fox Business Network Sandra Smith interviewed a former British member of parliament named John Browne about whether the country should leave the European Union, but it wasn’t the one that she thought had written a Wall Street Journal column about the decision. The Browne who wrote the Journal opinion piece was the former BP CEO and […]
How Varney helps Fox Business ratings
Brian Flood of The Wrap writes about the success of Stuart Varney‘s show on Fox Business Network. Flood writes, “Fox Biz’s ‘Varney & Co’ cut into CNBC’s time-slot lead every month from November 2015 thru May 2016. The show’s namesake feels that the network’s approach has helped ratings just as much as the lineup changes. Varney describes the […]
Ratings up at Fox Business Network
Mark Joyella of TVNewser.com writes about the ratings increase at Fox Business Network in recent months. Joyella writes, “Since last June, ratings across the board have increased more than 100 percent, and the network recently added 1.5 million subscribers as FBN moves ever closer to the full distribution mark. ‘It’s very exciting right now. Ratings are […]
Jo Ling Kent leaves Fox Business Network
Jo Ling Kent, who joined Fox Business Network as a reporter in May 2013 covering technology, has left the news organization. Her last day on the air was Wednesday. She has worked on Maria Bartiromo’s “Opening Bell,” and she covered the Alibaba IPO. Prior to joining Fox Business, Kent served as an on-air reporter for […]
Lawsuit settled in Fox Business reality show case
Fox has settled a lawsuit that resulted after Fox Business Network ordered 26 episodes of a reality series and then cancelled three months later, reports Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood. Patten writes, “The producer whose credits include History’s Pawn Stars filed suit in July 2015 in New York Supreme Court seeking $4.5 million in damages […]
Liz Claman on the art of covering Warren Buffett
Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman will interview Berkshire Hathaway executives Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, as well as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, on the air on Monday at 3 p.m. This past weekend, she covered Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in Omaha. Claman joined Fox Business in 2007, and her first interview for the network was Buffett. Claman, who […]
Why Trump won’t appear on Cavuto’s show on Fox Business
Brian Flood of The Wrap writes about why Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won’t appear on any Fox Business Network show with Neil Cavuto. Flood writes, “Cavuto doesn’t know what happened but he has had a ‘devil of a tim’ getting to Trump since then. Eventually, the Trump campaign sent an email informing Fox Business that: ‘Neil […]
