Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business Network gets Channel 43 in Manhattan

Multichannel News is reporting Wednesday evening that Fox Business Network will be located on Channel 43 in the key Manhattan market when it makes its debut next month.

Mike Reynolds wrote, “Multichannel News has learned that FBN has secured that expanded basic channel position with Time Warner Cable of New York. In concert with FBNâ€™s launch on the Time Warner Cable systems serving upper and lower Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and western Brooklyn, Fox News Channel will move to channel 44 from channel 46.

“The networksâ€™ adjacency in the nationâ€™s financial capital will serve to bump MSNBC and Sci-Fi Channel from their current respective channel positions of 43 and 44. On Time Warner Cable of New York’s new lineup MSNBC will be positioned at 14, right next to CNBC at 15. Sci-Fi will then be located at 17.

“The news comes 40 days before FBNâ€™s scheduled launch when it begins competing with NBC Universalâ€™s financial news sector leader, CNBC, and Bloomberg TV.”

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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.