Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dobbs has highest rating

Sara Bibel of TVbythenumbers.com reports that Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs had his highest ratings ever in October.

Bibel reports, “FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Lou Dobbs Tonight earned its highest rated month in October 2012, with an average of 172,000 Total Viewers and 53,000 Adults 25-54 viewers.

“The show outperformed its chief business news competitor, CNBC’s The Kudlow Reportin both total viewers (172,000 versus 169,000) and adults 25-54 (53,000 versus 28,000). The victory marks the first monthly win in both total viewers and in the demo for the 7 PM/ET program since launching in March 2011.

“FBN is available in roughly half as many homes as CNBC and this is the first time a program has won the month in both total viewers and the 25-54 demo since launching in 2007.”

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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.