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Fox Business once again live on holiday while CNBC shows tape

Fox Business Network, which last month was live on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, is once again live on President’s Day while competitor CNBC is running taped programming.

CNBC also ran taped shows on the MLK Jr. holiday, a day in which the international stock markets tanked.

Only Fox Business was live Monday when the news broke that the British government confirmed that it is nationalizing Northern Rock.

Fox Business showed part of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s press conference live and London-based Fox Business correspondent Ashley Webster offered analysis from Westminster on how the U.K. goverment blamed the U.S. subprime mortgage market for its travails.

In addition, Fox Business promoted itself being live on Monday while its competitors weren’t with an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

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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  • I had to watch. My hedge fund needed the info. And guess what? We're switching at least some of the screens permanently to Fox. They were right on the NR story which we needed to hear, but what was good was they did it every half hour. alot. good stuff. I've already told you more than you want to know. I'm done.

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