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Fox Business Network delivers best quarter ever

Fox Business Network‘s ratings during the third quarter were the best ever, reports Brian Flood of The Wrap.

Flood writes, “‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ and ‘Varney & Co’ finished as the top two business news programs in cable, the first time FBN achieved the two highest-rated time slots in business news for an entire quarter.

“‘Varney & Co’ averaged 193,00 total viewers for the quarter, beating CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ and ‘Squawk Alley,’ which averaged 179,000 total viewers, by eight percent to pick up its first quarterly win in the 9 a.m.-12 p.m. ET time slot.

“Lou Dobbs notched his third straight quarterly win over CNBC with 251,000 viewers, compared to 117,000. This is the ninth consecutive monthly win for Dobbs over CNBC. Every show on Fox Business from 9:30 a.m. through 5 p.m. ET set all-time highs, including ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast,’ which averaged 180,000 viewers for its best quarter ever. That number is made all the more intriguing by the fact that its eponymous host, Neil Cavuto, took leave from the show for the majority of the quarter to recover from open-heart surgery.”

Read more here.

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.

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