Fox Business reports double-digit viewer growth

Fox Business Network ended May 2020 with double-digit viewership growth in multiple categories during the month, reports Brian Flood of Fox Business.

Flood reports, “FBN had double-digit growth in business day, market hour, and total day measurables, while broadcasting seven of the 15 most-watched business programs on television. FBN averaged 242,000 viewers during the business day hours of 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET, a 51 percent gain compared to May 2019.

“The market hours category of 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET averaged 248,000 viewers for a 49 percent increase, while FBN averaged 162,000 total day viewers for an increase of 33 percent.

“‘Varney & Co.’ averaged 311,000 total viewers for a 46 percent increase compared to last year, while audiences for ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast,’ ‘Making Money with Charles Payne,’ ‘The Claman Countdown,’ ‘After the Bell’ and ‘The Evening Edit with Elizabeth MacDonald’ all grew by double digits compared to the prior year.”

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.