Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business Network to begin new morning show next week

Sam Thielman of Variety reports Thursday that the two-month old Fox Business Network will begin a new morning show called “Opening Bell” beginning next week.

Thielman wrote, “The hourlong will run in place of the fourth hour of ‘Money for Breakfast,’ structuring the FBN morning shows along the lines of CNBC’s 6-9 a.m. ‘Squawk Box’ and the subsequent ‘Squawk on the Street.’

“Former CNBCer Alexis Glick will be anchoring the show, which will focus on the market openings and stock updates as well as major news stories. In a release, Fox News exec VP Kevin Magee said ‘Opening Bell’ will give people ‘a one-hour daily snapshot into what’s expected to happen on Wall Street for the day.’

“When FBN entered the scene in October, Magee reportedly said that he didn’t want the network to steal viewers from CNBC or Bloomberg TV, hoping instead to pull in people who don’t ordinarily watch financial news. (FBN has since been true to that non-traditional philosophy with segments like the cartoon finance analysis bit, ‘Hoofy and Boo.’)”

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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.