Fox Business has highest ratings ever in 2020

Fox Business Network ended 2020 by notching its highest-rated year in network history across total day and business day dayparts, while nine FBN programs delivered milestone viewership highs, reports TVNewsCheck.

A story on TVNewsCheck stated, “In commenting on the network’s year-end ratings, FBN President Lauren Petterson said: ‘We are incredibly proud of the entire Fox Business team and all of their hard work in what has been a critical economic year.’

“Rounding out 2020, all key network dayparts saw double-digit audience growth across the board compared to 2019. Notably, FBN’s business day programming (9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. ET) delivered 236,000 total viewers, scoring the network’s most-watched business day year in total viewers.

“The network also recorded a high among total day (6 a.m.-6 a.m. ET) total viewers (168,000) which was FBN’s most-watched total day in history, up 32% year-over-year. During market hours (9 a.m.-4 p.m. ET) FBN saw gains across both total viewers 242,000, up 35%) and the coveted A25-54 demo (25,000, up 47%) year-over-year.”

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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.