Bloomberg TV scraps show with NYU professor Galloway

Bloomberg TV is scrapping its plan to launch a streaming show based around New York University professor Scott Galloway, reports Lachlan Cartwright and Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast.

Cartwright and Tani report, “‘We’ve reached a mutual decision with Scott Galloway not to proceed with our previously announced Bloomberg Quicktake project,’ a Bloomberg Media spokesperson told The Daily Beast. ‘It will not air as planned.’

“The move comes after Galloway shared a strange promotion for the show earlier this month on Twitter and briefly went viral for it. Posing shirtless in a hardhat while holding a pickaxe, the Vox podcaster made a series of somewhat nonsensical jokes about his sex life, at one point touting his erectile dysfunction.

“‘I like to bring construction into my sex life. I’m a big fan of one-night stands. I call it ‘the nut and bolt,’’ he said. ‘Anyway, bitcoin, bitches!'”

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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.