Fox Business has best day ever due to NYSE blackout

Eight-year-old Fox Business Network posted its best ratings ever on Wednesday due to the New York Stock Exchange going down for four hours.

Brian Flood of TVNewser writes, “FBN delivered its highest-rated business day ever among the key A25-54 demo, averaging 36,000 viewers.

“The network’s biggest winner was Cavuto: Coast to Coast, which was FBN’s highest rated 12 p.m. -2 p.m. telecast ever in total viewers, averaging 145,000. The 1 p.m. hour of Cavuto peaked at 171,000 total viewers.

“We’d mention CNBC’s numbers, since the network likely saw increased viewership as well, but the network ditched Nielsen for business day programming back in January. Bloomberg also refrains from being publicly rated.”

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UPDATE: “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” averaged 171,000 viewers. Fox Business’s “Intelligence Report with Trish Regan” averaged 145,000 viewers. On CNBC, “Squawk Alley” averaged 313,000 viewers, while “Power Lunch” averaged 272,000 viewers and “Closing Bell” averaged 373,000 viewers.

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.