Different holiday strategies by TV biz news channels

The stock market may be closed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, but business news is still happening.

The three business news channels on television — CNBC, Fox Business Network and Bloomberg Television — are handling the situation differently.

CNBC is showing some of its prime-time business-related shows and is only occasionally putting financial information up on the screen. It’s the same strategy that CNBC has taken during other holidays. “Shark Tank” reruns will begin airing at 3 p.m. and run until 9 p.m.

Bloomberg Television is showing 30-minute shows with top news headlines and international markets data on its screen. However, at 6 p.m., “First Up with Angie Lau” will look at what’s happening in the Asian markets.

Fox Business Network is showing its regular live programs. For example, “Money with Melissa Francis” featured a report from Charles Gasparino from the World Economic Forum and a preview of the State of the Union address.

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.