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Cavuto: CNBC has peaked, and Fox Biz is on fast trajectory

Alex Weprin of TVNewser interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto about how it has been covering the Democratic National Convention and its competition with CNBC.

Weprin writes, “He told me that while he may not have gotten everyone he has wanted, he has been very happy with how the booking process has progressed since FBN launched, and with the viewer response.

“‘Last week at the RNC, we had all these big guests, standing in line like planes at LaGuardia. If we were such a waste of time they wouldn’t bother, we are not a waste of time, they do bother,’ he says. ‘I think once they see you are here and you are serious, the audiences respond. The news audience and the business audience.’

“Cavuto likened his experience at FBN to to his earlier efforts at CNBC and Fox News.

“‘I think [FBN] is on a faster trajectory than Fox News was, maybe by shear luck or bad luck, I don’t know,’ Cavuto says. ‘I was there at CNBC from the beginning, I was there at Fox News from the beginning, I am a pioneer of beginnings I guess. The good ones stand the test of time, and I have great respect for CNBC because it has clearly stood the test of time, but its audience sort of peaked out.'”

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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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