Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business hits viewership mark

Brian Stelter and Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times write that the Fox Business Network, which turns a year old later this month, finally had enough of an audience to be measured by Nielsen Media.

Stelter and Steinberg write, “That figure was 81,000, and it represented the average number of people watching for any given hour between 1 and 10 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research.

“The figure is a milestone for the nearly year-old channel, which had never drawn an audience large enough to be considered statistically reliable by Nielsen for an extended period of time.

“Still the achievement was relatively small and fleeting: during the same period, on Monday, as the House of Representatives rejected a bailout bill and the Dow closed down nearly 778 points, CNBC drew an average of 883,000 viewers, 10 times as many as Fox Business.”

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BVB says:
October 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Although I see on this ads on Sister Network ,Fox News Channel and other Fox Cable Networks family of Networks. Although FNC's Completition,MSNBC (which moved to 30 Rock in Midtown Manhattan at GE Building Lot last year, near News Corporation,the parent of FNC & FBN 's Main Headquarters),CNBC,CNBC World NBC Weather Plus and Telemundo are in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey at NBC Universal Network Origination Center (near Unilever U.S. Headquarters).
BVB says:
October 3, 2008 at 12:26 pm
From Last Year when FBN Ads Beating Up CNBC about Bear Stearns (now successor of JP Morgan Chase)
On March of 2008
Including Famous Last words
"Who tell wants to hear actor talk?"-H.M. Warner, Warner Bros, 1927
"I Believe it is peace four our time."- Neville Chamberlain, 1938
"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Darryl Zanack, 1946