Categories: OLD Media Moves

Happy hour comes to business journalism

The TVNewser blog is reporting that both CNBC and Fox Business Network are working on after-market shows called “Happy Hour.”

Chris Ariens wrote, “Today on FNC’s Your World, Neil Cavuto talked about the timing: ‘You’ll be amazed what you can pick up at a bar, lots of gossip, lots of good stuff, and if our friends across the Hudson River at that other financial network are any indication, apparently lots of shameless ways to copy exactly what we’re doing.’

“Cavuto then gave viewers a glimpse of the FBN program co-hosted by Rebecca Gomez and Cody Willard. Willard said the show will ‘wed Main Street with Wall Street.’ (Seems to be a recurring theme) The two talked about today’s jobs report and the ongoing housing slump while taking a dig at the CNBC idea. Gomez: ‘if that’s their version of happy hour, that’s pretty boring. You’re gonna much rather come and have happy hour with us.'”

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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.