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Biz news service Cheddar raises $10 million

Business news video service Cheddar has raised $10 million to launch a full eight-hour day of live programming.

Patience Haggin of The Wall Street Journal writes, “An online subscription video service, Cheddar produces a daily business broadcast from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and a daily lifestyle show.

“‘I want to take all these formats that have worked for an older generation and youthen them up in terms of the content and the style and the talent,’ explained Mr. Steinberg, the founder and chief executive of Cheddar, who also anchors broadcasts. ‘I would put our live show Cheddar Life up against the Today Show.’

“Cheddar launched this spring with free videos broadcast on YouTube and Facebook. In May the company put its full shows out under a subscription of $6.99 per month, using the video streaming service Vimeo. It still offers some video free on Facebook Live.

“Mr. Steinberg said he is open to seeing it sold in ‘bundles’ by cable channels or other media providers in the future. ‘I want us to be in all of these paid places. I want to be very judicious about what we’re giving away free,’ he said.”

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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.

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