Regan’s show on Fox Business posts best ratings ever

Trish Regan

“The Intelligence Report with Trish Regan” on Fox Business Network posted its best-ever ratings on Thursday.

The show, which began earlier this year when Fox hired Trish Regan from Bloomberg Television, pulled in 152,000 total viewers for the 2 p.m. program.

In addition, the show also beat CNBC in the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic, scoring 41,000 viewers, a 21 percent advantage over CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” which had 34,000 viewers, according to Nielsen.

The rest of the network also performed well Thursday

“Varney & Co.” hosted by Stuart Varney beat MSNBC in the demo, earning 45,000 viewers in the 10 a.m. hour and 43,000 in the 11 a.m. hour. By contrast, MSNBC Live pulled in 41,000 viewers and 40,000 viewers, respectively, in the demo.

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.