A night on the town with Cody Willard of Fox Business
Brian Stelter of the New York Times spends some time with Cody Willard of Fox Business Network, who is out with some friends. Stelter writes, “The show in question is ‘Happy Hour’ on the fledgling Fox Business Network, where Mr. Willard, loud and with long hair, appears. “The program — part stock market chat, part […]
NYSE extends trading by 15 minutes
The New York Stock Exchange decided to close at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday after system irregularities were found in the trading. This was big news among the television-based business news providers, whose shows are timed to the 4 p.m. market close. So, who had it first? We saw Fox Business Network reporting at 3:53 p.m., […]
Looking for role models
Joanne Flynn Black of Indian American magazine profiles Shibani Joshi of Fox Business Network in the latest issue and talks to her about her career. Black writes, “When she looked to a career in media, she had very few role models. However, there was one who truly inspired her, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical […]
Murdoch: WSJ, Fox Business doing better than expected
Dan Freed of TheStreet.com talked recently with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch about the media business, including some of his business news properties. Here is an excerpt: How’s advertising at The Wall Street Journal? Marginally better than at other newspapers, but not great. Certainly we have reduced our costs at The Journal I think fully […]
Working the stock market beat
Cara Buckley of the New York Times interviews Matt Egan, who covers the stock market for Fox Business Network, about his job. Here is an excerpt: Landing at Fox: Ray Hennessey, the director of business news, went to my college, and also wrote for The Trenton Times. I kind of went to the interview not […]
Cavuto brings back questionable guest
Fox Business Network‘s Neil Cavuto is once again relying on Las Vegas-based Wayne Root as a regular guest. Root, a former Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate, appeared on Cavuto’s show Monday and is scheduled to appear again tonight. Here is Monday night’s appearance: He makes his living selling betting tips. As Phil Mushnick of the […]
Who is hotter, Fox Business or CNBC? You decide
The Huffington Post is running a contest asking its readers to vote on the hottest anchors between Fox Business Network and CNBC. The Post writes, “CNBC has several things going for it, namely Maria Bartiromo and Erin Burnett. Oh, and a real audience. “But while FOX Business may not have much in the way of […]
Did 24/7 Wall St. have it in for Fox?
Sharon Waxman’s TheWrap has a post that questions why 24/7 Wall St. would write about Fox Business Network‘s low audience numbers when it had proposed that Fox Business be the Web site’s exclusive provider of video business news just two months earlier. Lew Harris writes, “But an insider at the station (a real one, at […]
How to improve financial television
There is an anonymous post Tuesday morning on Seeking Alpha that lists seven ways that financial news on television could improve. Here are a few suggestions: 2. Emphasize investigative journalism. Financially literate, intelligent people can add a whole lot of value when it comes to explaining and digging into economic and financial stories. Think Kate […]
Fox Business numbers not improving
Douglas McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. writes Monday that the performance at Fox Business Network in terms of gaining viewers and readers to its Web site has stagnated, a statement that Fox disputes. McIntyre writes, “Based on 24/7 Wall St. conversations with people with knowledge about recent Fox Business viewership figures, including one former executive with […]
