Categories: OLD Media Moves

Fox Business to develop primetime program

Fox Business Network is developing an original alternative primetime program titled “Strange Inheritance” that will debut in summer 2014.

Hosted by Fox Business Network’s Tracy Byrnes, the show will take a closer look at real-life stories of unconventional inheritances.

“A venture like Strange Inheritance helps us diversify our primetime programming,” said Kevin Magee, executive vice president of the network, in a statement. :Its eccentric premise is a compelling option for a business audience after hours.”

The half-hour show is being produced by Jonathan Towers, founder and senior executive producer of Towers Productions, LLC. Towers has worked on a number of prominent reality-based series, including: A&E’s American Justice, National Geographic’s Inside 9/11 and History Channel’s Gangland. Strange Inheritance goes into production in late February.

Brian Gaffney, currently an executive producer with Fox News Channel’s documentary unit, has been promoted to director of special programming for Fox Business Network and will manage the production of “Strange Inheritance.”

Gaffney has been with Fox News since 2002 and has overseen production on more than 90 documentaries and specials for the network.

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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  • So does this mean that Tracy is not on FBN during the day anymore? I don't see her on the new schedule that starts next week.

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