Fox Business Network and Tennis Channel expand relationship
The Fox Business Network and Tennis Channel have expanded their partnership to bring viewers daily updates of market moves and courtside play during the 2010 Grand Slam Events. Starting with this week’s Australian Open, Fox Business and Tennis Channel will exchange a daily update, giving viewers on each network access to all the action that […]
Cavuto's simplified approach to business news
Chelsea Greenwood of Success magazine profiles Fox Business Network head and anchor Neil Cavuto, who talks about the network’s simplified approach to presenting business news. Greenwood writes, “That work thing started in 1996, when FNC’s founding CEO, Roger Ailes, hired Cavuto to cover business news for the fledgling channel. ‘He was very wise to ask […]
Stossel talks about his Fox Biz show
Rodney Ho of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution talked with Fox Business Network‘s John Stossel about his new show and what he hopes to accomplish with it. Ho writes, “Stossel is fundamentally a journalist with common sense, a consumer advocate who became a Libertarian. Ultimately, he finds most, if not all, government regulation incompetent, inefficient and/or pointless. […]
Fox Biz Network makes changes to morning schedule
Fox Business Network has named Stuart Varney as the lead anchor of its new morning business block as it jiggers its morning lineup in the wake of the departure last month of anchor Alexis Glick. The new program, titled “Varney & Co.” will follow an expanded Imus in the Morning and begin at 9:20 a.m., […]
Fox Business among most improved brands in 2009
BrandWeek’s survey of brands shows that Fox Business Network‘s brand was one of the 10 biggest gainers in 2009. Fox Business Network’s brand ranked No. 7 among those gaining in brand awareness. Ford Motor Co. was No. 1, and Facebook was No. 2. BrandWeek notes, “Meanwhile, the two-year-old startup Fox Business Channel was cited as […]
Dorfman: Financial media acting badly
Long-time business journalist Dan Dorfman writes on The Huffington Post about what he perceives to be major problems in what the financial media are telling consumers. Dorfman writes, “I, for one, thought sheer lunacy had struck the financial media when someone told me some time ago that CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow had actually predicted the […]
Another booking battle between CNBC and Fox Business
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Rival business news networks CNBC and Fox Business Network fought last night and this morning to have exclusive interviews with Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally, according to those involved in the situation. Fox Business Network booked Mulally for a “First on Fox Business Network” interview. The interview was to take […]
Top biz journalism events of the decade
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The first decade of the 21st century began with business journalists facing criticism for their boosterish coverage of companies during the tech bubble and ended with many of the same reporters facing more criticism for failing to warn consumers about the current economic crisis. In between, the world of business journalism […]
Fox Biz's McDowell relied on self-taught expertise to survive
Y’all magazine has a feature on Fox Business Network reporter Dagen McDowell where she discusses how she got into business reporting. The story states, “After graduating in 1991 with a degree in art history, McDowell spent a few years in Colorado before deciding that she needed to do something with her life, and moved to […]
Glick contract expiring, no replacement named
Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times reports that Fox Business Network anchor Alexis Glick, who announced her departure on the air Wednesday, was nearing the end of her three-year contract and the network won’t replace here right now. Flint writes, “Glick, who was also the network’s vice president of business news, was a high-profile hire […]
