How “Wall Street Week” landed at Fox Business

Brian Flood of The Wrap writes about how Fox Business Network acquired the “Wall Street Week’ show.

Flood writes, “After 30-odd episodes of the quasi-infomercial version, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes liked what he saw, took over the show and moved it to Fox Business Network.

“‘Roger was aware that the brand still had tremendous value,’ Kaminsky said.

[contextly_sidebar id=”q1yM4VN4NcsxPaAPn4lW6bfb2zlXMRXl”]”Scaramucci and Kaminsky, a senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, are both self-proclaimed control freaks in other aspects of life, but don’t mind letting Ailes call the shots when it comes to ‘Wall Street Week.’

“‘We have enough control where I’m totally satisfied, but we’re also picking up the benefit of their [Fox’s] strategy, set design and programming ideas.’ Scaramucci said. ‘The only thing that Roger said was ‘let’s move it back to the original time spot.”

“Scaramucci and Kaminsky loved the nostalgic idea and welcome constructive criticism from Ailes and senior executive vice president Bill Shine.”

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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.