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Fox Business records monthly win over CNBC

Fox Business Network recorded its first monthly audience higher than rival CNBC, according to data from AC Nielsen.

Chris Ariens of TVNewser.com reports, “With heavy emphasis on the 2016 election, FBN averaged 170,000 total viewers (vs. 164,000 for CNBC) for business day, giving FBN its most-watched month ever and up 67 percent vs. October 2015. CNBC won the advertiser-friendly A25-54 demo (33,000 vs. 22,000). But FBN saw growth in the demo (+38 percent), while CNBC lost demo viewers (-35 percent) vs. October 2015.

“Varney & Company, Intelligence Report with Trish Regan, Countdown to Closing Bell with Liz Claman, After the Bell, Risk and Reward, Making Money with Charles Payne and Lou Dobbs Tonight all had their most-watched months ever. Head-to-head with CNBC, FBN’s Varney & Company topped CNBC’s Squawk on the Street/Squawk Alley for a third straight month; Cavuto: Coast-to-Coast saw its second consecutive win over CNBC’s Fast Money Halftime Report; and Lou Dobbs Tonight topped CNBC in both total viewers and the demo.

“FBN also got a boost from the two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate.”

Read more here. CNBC does not use Nielsen for ratings because it doesn’t measure those viewing at work.

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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