"Wall $treet Week" is revived online

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

“Wall $treet Week,” a weekly business news program that aired on PBS stations across the country from 1970 to 2005, is being revived as an online program and Web site.

Among other features, the new site will be producing two types of video content for the web.  One of the site’s investors is a former Nasdaq president, Alfred Berkeley, and he will be leading a weekly round table discussion to be taped in New York.  The site will also be doing Skype interviews with financial advisors around the country.  All of this will be summarized in a weekly newsletter. The cost to subscribe will be $149 a year at the beginning.

The move is being led by Jeff Salkin, a longtime news anchor and public affairs reporter for Maryland Public Television, which hosted the original show.

Among the writers is Roy Furchgott, a veteran journalist whose work has appeared in Forbes, BusinessWeek and The New York Times, and Georgia Marudas, the former deputy business editor at the Baltimore Sun.

Salkin is host of “Your Money & Business,” a Maryland Public Television show. As Maryland Public Television’s executive producer of Bloomberg Morning News, a weekday financial news report that aired in the 1990s, Salkin helped create and launch the program. It was a co-production of Maryland Public Television and Bloomberg L.P. and was syndicated nationally to PBS stations.

The original show was hosted by Louis Rukeyser from 1970 to 2002. In June 2002, Rukeyser was dropped from the show, and he went on to lead a similar show on CNBC. The PBS show then changed its name to “Wall $treet Week with Fortune” until it was canceled in June 2005. Rukeyser died in 2006.