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Ailes: Fox Biz ratings are going up

Merrill Knox of TVNewser.com reports that Fox head Roger Ailes remained bullish about Fox Business Network during an investor presentation.

Knox writes, “‘Rupert [Murdoch] and I talked about this in the beginning. We always thought it was somewhat difficult,’ Ailes told Neil Cavuto, who is Fox Business Network’s senior vice president and managing editor. ‘We’re actually at about the same place Fox News was five years in. It’s tougher because, of course, there’s not a lot of extra income around for a lot of people … you’ve got to adjust programming.’

“Ailes said he was ‘very careful’ about the timing of the FBN launch, noting the network is profitable.

“‘The bottom line is that Fox Business Channel made money two years ago, it made money last year, and it will make more money next year,’ he said. ‘And our ratings, while they are slow — we have 20 million fewer subscribers [than CNBC] — our ratings are going up and CNBC’s are going down. So I think we’re in pretty good shape.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.