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“Varney & Co.” on Fox Business has highest ratings ever

“Varney & Co.,” which appears on Fox Business Network, recorded its highest-ever ratings on Monday.

The show, which runs from 9 a.m. to noon, posted its highest-rated time block ever in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic with 59,000 viewers. In addition, Varney’s 9 a.m. hour topped CNBC in the demographic with 62,000 viewers.

CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” recorded 61,000 viewers in the demographic during that hour.

The Monday performance follows a string of successes for the show.

In August, “Varney & Company” recorded the network’s highest-rated month ever in total viewers for the 9 a.m. to noon slot with 114,000.

On Aug. 24, Stuart Varney’s “Varney & Co.” set a network record for the 9 a.m. to noon block with 230,000 total viewers and 54,000 in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic.

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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