Categories: OLD Media Moves

Imus departure means Fox Biz will revamp morning

Radio talk show host Don Imus is leaving Fox Business Network next month, reports TVNewser’s Chris Ariens, meaning that the business news channel will be revamping its morning time slots.

Ariens writes, “FBN confirmed the news tonight following Imus’s rather understated announcement this morning: ‘We go off television May 29. Why? I do not know. There’s 10 times, maybe a hundred times more people that listen to the radio than watch television. That’s the mentality of… whatever,’ said Imus before changing the subject.

“A network executive with knowledge of the decision said the plan had been in the works since January when Imus informed FNC Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes that he was moving to Texas. Both sides agreed to part ways. Ailes is said to have had a warm relationship with Imus for more than 30 years and is appreciative of the contributions he made to the network.

“Meanwhile, FBN is planning for the future of the 6am-9am slot which Imus has hosted for the last six years. He joined in 2009, two years after FBN went on the air.”

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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.