Categories: OLD Media Moves

“Wall Street Week” close to global distribution deal

The financial television show “Wall Street Week” is close to a global distribution deal, reports Julia LaRoche and Linette Lopez of Business Insider.

LaRoche and Lopez write, “The show had its highest-ratings on Sunday, September 13th, averaging 88,000 adult viewers in four markets (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC), according to data from Rentrak.

“Among the most critical viewer demographic — adults ages 24-54 — ‘Wall Street Week’ averaged 46,000 viewers.

“All those eyeballs have networks interested in making the show bigger — as big as it was when it was a household name hosted by Louis Rukeyser and airing on PBS from 1970 to 2005.

“The revived ‘Wall Street Week’ debuted back in April. It currently airs on Sundays on FOX affiliate stations in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. You can also watch full episodes on the show’s website.”

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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.