Bloomberg TV launches “Daybreak Asia”

Bloomberg Television has launched a new show called “Daybreak Asia” that has anchors in New York and Hong Kong.

The new show replaces replaces “First Up” and airs at 7 a.m. in Asia and at 7 p.m. in New York.

Betty Liu, Ramy Inocencio, Su Keenan and Kathleen Hays will anchor the show in New York, with Angie Lau, Yvonne Man, Rosalind Chin, Haidi Lun and Shery Ahn in Hong Kong.

“Over the past year, our mission at Bloomberg TV has been to align our sophisticated programming and unparalleled journalistic resources around the world to create the No. 1 business and financial television network,” said Al Mayers, head of Bloomberg TV and Radio, in a statement. “The combination of anchors in New York and Hong Kong will tremendously enhance our coverage of global markets.”

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.