Categories: OLD Media Moves

Cheddar launches Cheddar Big News

Business news network Cheddar began Tuesday broadcasting Cheddar Big News, its general news network focused on headlines and top stories.

It premiered on YouTube TV with planned launches on Sling TV and Philo in this second quarter of 2018.

Cheddar Big News will include the latest trends and updates in politics, entertainment, travel, food, health, science, sports, and weather live from Cheddar’s studios in New York and Los Angeles with an emphasis on nothing-but-the-facts reporting.

“We cover the big political stories of the day but don’t torture viewers with circular panels of supposed ‘expert political analysts’,” said Jon Steinberg, founder and CEO of Cheddar, in a statement. “We move on to ‘moose on the loose’, human interest stories, weather, science, sports, and the topics of the day.

“It’s apolitical. It’s the cable news product that young people want. We now have the full suite news offering with a news network and a business news network.”

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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