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Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of
Fox Corporation Fox Corporation (stylized in all-caps as FOX Corporation) is a publicly traded American mass media company operated and controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City. Incorporated ...
. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in
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. Launched on October 15, 2007, the network features trading day coverage and a nightly lineup of opinion-based talk shows. Day-to-day operations are run by Kevin Magee, executive vice president of
Fox News The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
;
Neil Cavuto Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist for Fox News. He hosts three television programs: '' Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''Cavuto Live,'' both on F ...
is the vice president and
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for the network and business news operation overall. As of February 2015, Fox Business Network is available to approximately 74,224,000 pay television households (63.8% of households with television) in the United States.


History

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chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed the launch at his
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at the 2007
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Media Summit on February 8, 2007. Murdoch had publicly stated that if News Corporation's purchase of ''
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'' went through and if it were legally possible, he would have rechristened the channel with a name that has "''Journal''" in it. However, on July 11, 2007, News Corporation announced that the new channel would be called Fox Business Network (FBN), a name chosen over ''Fox Business Channel'' due to the pre-existing (though seldom used) legal abbreviation of "FBC" for the co-owned broadcast network
Fox Broadcasting Company The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations an ...
. Before the network launched, few specific facts were made public as to the type of programming approach Fox Business would be taking. However, some details emerged as to how it would differentiate itself from its main competitor,
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. At a media summit hosted by ''
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'' magazine, Rupert Murdoch was quoted as saying CNBC was too "negative towards business". They promised to make Fox Business more "business friendly". In addition, it was expected that Fox Business would not be "poaching" a lot of CNBC's on-air talent in the immediate future, as most key on-air personalities had been locked into a long-term contract. However, that still left open the possibility of the network taking some of CNBC's other staff, including editors, producers and other reporters. The channel launched on October 15, 2007. The network is placed on channel 43 in the New York City market in the basic-tier pay-TV package, which is home to the
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and
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stock exchanges. It is paired with sister network
Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
, which moved to channel 44 (CNBC is carried on channel 15 on
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's New York City area systems). FBN received carriage on
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channel 106, only available via subscription to its IO Digital Cable package. According to an article in '' Multichannel News'',
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paid up to "several million dollars" in order to ensure that CNBC and Fox Business would be separated on the dial, and in order to retain CNBC's "premium" channel slot. At the time FBN was carried on Time Warner Cable only on its analog service in New York City (most systems have since switched to digital-only); in other markets, the channel's carriage was limited to premium
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packages at extra cost. Verizon's FiOS TV also carries the network on its premier lineup (SD channel 117 and HD channel 617).
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began carrying FBN on channel 206 on February 2, 2009. FBN also received carriage on
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channel 359. As its prominence grew, some providers indeed moved the channel to their basic package, and some have paired
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, CNBC and FBN next to each other as part of 'genre' channel maps. On November 10, 2015, Fox Business Network, along with ''The Wall Street Journal'' hosted its first Republican presidential primary debate, setting a ratings record for the network with 13.5 million viewers. The debate also delivered 1.4 million concurrent streams, making it the most livestreaming primary debate in history and beating out the 2015 Super Bowl by 100,000 streams. Fox Business Network hosted its second Republican primary debate on January 14, 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina with
Neil Cavuto Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist for Fox News. He hosts three television programs: '' Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''Cavuto Live,'' both on F ...
and
Maria Bartiromo Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of ''Mornings with Maria'' and '' Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street'' on the Fox Business Network as ...
serving as moderators. Both of these primetime debates also included earlier debates featuring presidential candidates who were not ranked as highly in the national polls as well as those based in Iowa or New Hampshire.On December 14, 2017, 21st Century Fox announced it would sell a majority of its assets to
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in a transaction valued at over $52 billion. Fox Business Network was not included in the deal and was spun off to the significantly downsized
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, along with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel and
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and 2. The deal was approved by Disney and Fox shareholders on July 27, 2018, and was completed on March 19, 2019. On September 29, 2019, Fox Business Network unveiled a new slogan, "Investing in You", a new on-air graphics scheme based on one recently adopted by Fox News Channel, and updated digital platforms. The channel also announced the new Friday-night program ''
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Roundtable''.


Programming and on-air staff

David Asman David Asman (; born 1954 in Hollis, New York) is an American television news anchor for Fox Business and Fox News. Asman first joined Fox News in 1997. He hosts ''Bulls & Bears'' on the Fox Business Network and numerous other Fox News Special ...
,
Maria Bartiromo Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of ''Mornings with Maria'' and '' Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street'' on the Fox Business Network as ...
,
Cheryl Casone Cheryl Cecile Casone (born July 18, 1970) is an American television news anchor on the Fox Business. Casone serves as a financial contributor and provides weekly job reports. She also reports on the Fox News. Early life Born in Clearwater, Flo ...
,
Dagen McDowell Mary Dagen McDowell (born January 7, 1969) is an American anchor and co-host of ''The Bottom Line'' on Fox Business. As well as a contributor on Fox News. Education A native of Campbell County, Virginia, from a family of Irish background, Mc ...
, and Stuart Varney are anchors for Fox Business Network; they also appear on Fox News Channel. In addition, Brenda Buttner was also on the roster on FBN until her passing in 2017. Other anchors include Peter Barnes, Tom Sullivan,
Jenna Lee Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Lee (born ) is an American journalist and former anchor on the Fox News, where she co-hosted ''Happening Now'' with Jon Scott. Lee had previously co-anchored Fox Business' early-morning business news program, ''Fox Busin ...
,
Nicole Petallides Nicole Anais Petallides (born September 20, 1971) is an American journalist who works as an anchor for the online-only TD Ameritrade Network, which is owned and operated by Charles Schwab Corporation as a result of their acquisition of TD Amerit ...
and
Cody Willard Cody Willard (born August 31, 1972, in Ruidoso, New Mexico), is an American investor, television anchor and current hedge fund manager. He is the publisher of a subscription-based investment newsletter TradingWithCody.com and the author of the #1 ...
. Reporters include Jeff Flock (a
CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
"original"),
Shibani Joshi Shibani Sona Joshi (born October 4, 1975) is a reporter for the Fox Business Network. Career Joshi began her journalism career as a news production assistant at CNNfn where she contributed to Lou Dobbs ''Moneyline'' and CNN ''Money Morning''. J ...
(from
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), and Connell McShane (from
Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is head ...
). The network previously had former
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CEO
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(a 2016 presidential candidate) as a contributor.
Dave Ramsey David Lawrence Ramsey III (born September 3, 1960) is an American personal finance personality, radio show host, author, and businessman. An evangelical Christian, he hosts the nationally syndicated radio program ''The Ramsey Show''. Ramsey has ...
had a one-hour prime time show, similar in format to his syndicated radio show, until June 2010. Tom Sullivan broadcast his ''Tom Sullivan Show'' on the radio, with plans to syndicate the show nationwide with the assistance of
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. Adam Shapiro (formerly with
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's
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and New York City's
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) was added to the Fox Business Network to report from the Washington, D.C. bureau. On October 18, 2007, former
CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
anchor
Liz Claman Elizabeth Kate Claman (born December 12, 1963) is the anchor of the Fox Business show ''The Claman Countdown''. Claman was previously the co-anchor of the CNBC morning television program '' Morning Call''. Before that, Claman was the co-host ...
joined the Fox Business Network as co-anchor of the 2-3 p.m. portion of the dayside business news block with David Asman. Her first assignment for FBN was an interview with
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. In April 2008, Brian Sullivan (no relation to Tom) joined FBN, coming over from Bloomberg Television. Sullivan, who reunited with his Bloomberg colleague Connell McShane, anchored the 10 a.m.-12 p.m. portion of the business news block with Dagen McDowell. On May 12, 2008, Fox Business Network revamped its daytime lineup, which included the debut of two new programs, ''Countdown to the Closing Bell'' and ''Fox Business Bulls & Bears''. On April 20, 2009, ''Money for Breakfast'', ''The Opening Bell on Fox Business'' (both hosted by Alexis Glick), ''The Noon Show with Tom Sullivan and Cheryl Casone'', ''Countdown to the Closing Bell'', ''Fox Business Bulls & Bears'', and ''Cavuto'' all moved to the network's new Studio G set. All six of those shows shared the same set in Studio G, which was unveiled on ''Money for Breakfast'' the same day. In September 2009,
Don Imus John Donald Imus Jr. (July 23, 1940 – December 27, 2019), also known mononymously as Imus, was an American radio personality, television show host, recording artist, and author. His radio show, ''Imus in the Morning'', was aired on various stat ...
and FBN reached an agreement to carry his show, ''
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'', on Fox Business. The show began airing on October 5, 2009. Fox had previously been in negotiations with Imus to bring his show to the network. In November 2007 (when Imus was just returning to radio, and Fox Business was just starting), negotiations fell through and Imus instead signed with rural-oriented network
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. On December 23, 2009, Alexis Glick left FBN. Announcing that that day's episode of ''The Opening Bell'' would be her last, she said "I know this is not the norm, but I don’t believe in abrupt departures." The only reason given by Glick for her departure was that she was leaving to "embark on a new venture," but a number of sources have noted that Don Imus' new morning show had a significant effect upon Glick's screen time since he signed with the network. On November 10, 2010, FBN announced that former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs would join the channel. His program, ''
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'', moved to FBN in March 2011. On February 24, 2014, former CNBC host
Maria Bartiromo Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of ''Mornings with Maria'' and '' Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street'' on the Fox Business Network as ...
moved to FBN, where she would host ''Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo'', and become a Fox News contributor. In April 2015, it was reported that Fox Business would drop the ''Imus in the Morning'' simulcast, as Imus was planning to move from New York City to Texas. On May 11, the network officially announced a new daytime lineup that would begin June 1; ''FBN AM'' would air from 5-6 a.m. ET, and Bartiromo moved to the 6-9 a.m. ET timeslot formerly held by Imus to host ''Mornings with Maria''. ''Varney & Company'' was moved up to 9 a.m. and expanded to three hours, Neil Cavuto would host the new midday program ''Cavuto: Coast to Coast'', and
Trish Regan Patricia Ann Regan (born December 13, 1972) is a conservative American television talk show host and author. She hosted ''Trish Regan Primetime'' on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2020. Regan was previously a television host on Bloomber ...
(moving from
Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is head ...
) would host the new afternoon program ''The Intelligence Report'', and Melissa Francis moved to co-anchor ''After the Bell'' alongside David Asman. Former
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head
Nigel Farage Nigel Paul Farage (; born 3 April 1964) is a British broadcaster and former politician who was List of UK Independence Party leaders, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Brexit Party#Leaders, Lea ...
was announced as a commentator on January 20, 2017, the day of
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's
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. Farage will provide political analysis for both Fox Business and Fox News.


Sports programming

Fox Business Network has occasionally served as an overflow channel for
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telecasts in the event of programming conflicts across Fox,
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, and
Fox Sports 2 Fox Sports 2 (FS2) is an American sports-oriented pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. The channel is based at the Fox Sports division's headquarters on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century Cit ...
, particularly
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. For instance in 2017, a game between Baylor and
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aired on Fox Business due to a weather-delayed game on FS1. It was reported in May 2018 that, following a controversial decision in November 2017 to move the first quarter of a Pac-12 football game between
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and
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from FS1 to FS2 (which does not have wide carriage) due to a
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overrun, that Fox would prefer the use of FBN for future Pac-12 overflow situations, as it has significantly wider distribution (if not slightly wider than FS1 in terms of total households) than FS2, and that it would carry minimal impact to programming.


On-air staff


Anchors/hosts

*
David Asman David Asman (; born 1954 in Hollis, New York) is an American television news anchor for Fox Business and Fox News. Asman first joined Fox News in 1997. He hosts ''Bulls & Bears'' on the Fox Business Network and numerous other Fox News Special ...
*
Maria Bartiromo Maria Sara Bartiromo (born September 11, 1967) is an American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author. She is the host of ''Mornings with Maria'' and '' Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street'' on the Fox Business Network as ...
*
Neil Cavuto Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist for Fox News. He hosts three television programs: '' Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''Cavuto Live,'' both on F ...
*
Liz Claman Elizabeth Kate Claman (born December 12, 1963) is the anchor of the Fox Business show ''The Claman Countdown''. Claman was previously the co-anchor of the CNBC morning television program '' Morning Call''. Before that, Claman was the co-host ...
* Jackie DeAngelis * Kennedy *
Dagen McDowell Mary Dagen McDowell (born January 7, 1969) is an American anchor and co-host of ''The Bottom Line'' on Fox Business. As well as a contributor on Fox News. Education A native of Campbell County, Virginia, from a family of Irish background, Mc ...
*
Charles Payne Charles Payne may refer to: * Charles Payne (clergyman) (1830–1899), Methodist clergyman and president of Ohio Wesleyan University * Charles Payne (television personality) (born 1960), American Fox Business Network contributor and co-host of '' ...
* Lauren Simonetti * Stuart Varney * Ashley Webster


Reporters

These reporters are based in New York unless otherwise stated. * Charles Gasparino *
Gerri Willis Gerri Willis is an American television news journalist and former host of ''The Willis Report'', a daytime program on Fox Business, focusing on consumer and personal finance issues. Early life and education Gerri Willis was born on August 14, 1 ...


Contributors

*
Nigel Farage Nigel Paul Farage (; born 3 April 1964) is a British broadcaster and former politician who was List of UK Independence Party leaders, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Brexit Party#Leaders, Lea ...
* Jonathan Hoenig *
Dave Ramsey David Lawrence Ramsey III (born September 3, 1960) is an American personal finance personality, radio show host, author, and businessman. An evangelical Christian, he hosts the nationally syndicated radio program ''The Ramsey Show''. Ramsey has ...


Former on-air staff

* Deirdre Bolton (2014–2020, now with
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) * Brenda Buttner (2007–2016, deceased) *
Melissa Francis Melissa Ann Francis (born December 12, 1972) is an American television news personality who most recently appeared as an anchor and commentator for the Fox Business Network (FBN) and Fox News (FNC). Previously, she worked as an actress. Prior t ...
(2012–2020) *
Alexis Glick Alexis Glick (born Alexis Cahill Donnelly; August 7, 1972) is an American television personality who was an anchor of ''Money for Breakfast'' and ''The Opening Bell'' on Fox Business, as well as the Vice President of Business News. She left the ...
(2007–2009), ''Money for Breakfast'' and ''The Opening Bell on Fox Business''; no longer in the television industry * Lou Dobbs (2011–2021) * Terry Keenan, host of ''Cashin' In'' (2002–2009) (deceased) *
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, now at
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*
Jenna Lee Jennifer Anne "Jenna" Lee (born ) is an American journalist and former anchor on the Fox News, where she co-hosted ''Happening Now'' with Jon Scott. Lee had previously co-anchored Fox Business' early-morning business news program, ''Fox Busin ...
(2007–2010), ''Fox Business Morning''; no longer in the television industry *
Nicole Petallides Nicole Anais Petallides (born September 20, 1971) is an American journalist who works as an anchor for the online-only TD Ameritrade Network, which is owned and operated by Charles Schwab Corporation as a result of their acquisition of TD Amerit ...
(2007–2018, now with
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) *
Trish Regan Patricia Ann Regan (born December 13, 1972) is a conservative American television talk show host and author. She hosted ''Trish Regan Primetime'' on the Fox Business Network from 2015 to 2020. Regan was previously a television host on Bloomber ...
(2015–2020) *
Adam Shapiro Adam Shapiro is the name of: *Adam Shapiro (activist) (born 1972), American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) *Adam Shapiro (television reporter), American television reporter and investigative journalist *Adam Shapiro, Amer ...
, now with
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*
John Stossel John Frank Stossel (born March 6, 1947) is an American libertarian television presenter, author, consumer journalist, and pundit. He is known for his career as a host on ABC News, Fox Business Network, and Reason TV. Stossel's style combines r ...
(2009–2016) * Brian Sullivan, now with
CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
* Tom Sullivan (2007-2017), now hosts a syndicated talk radio program


Ratings

On January 4, 2008, ''
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'' and several other media outlets reported that FBN had registered an average of 6,300 viewers, far below Nielsen's 35,000-viewer threshold. The number was so low that neither Nielsen nor FBN were allowed to confirm the number. The ''Times'' and other media outlets noted the network is less than four months old and only in one-third as many households as is
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. In July 2008, Nielsen estimated that FBN averaged 8,000 viewers per daytime hour and 20,000 per prime time hour, compared to 284,000 and 191,000 (respectively) for CNBC. Because FBN's viewership remained low, Nielsen had difficulty estimating viewership, and the estimates are not statistically significant. At the time, FBN was available in approximately 40 million homes to CNBC's over 90 million. In the fall 2008, FBN was losing to CNBC in the ratings by over 10 to 1. By June 2009, showed FBN with an average of 21,000 viewers between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m., still under the Nielsen threshold, and less than 10% of CNBC's 232,000 for the same time span. At this point, FBN was available in about 49 million U.S. homes. Reports of ratings from the first episode of ''Imus in the Morning'' reported an average of 177,000 viewers (and a peak of 202,000 in the 7:00 a.m. hour) in the time slot, mostly over the age of 65; this was a more than tenfold increase compared to the network's previous morning show, ''Money for Breakfast''. The program even beat CNBC's ''
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'' in the time slot. As of June 2012, ''
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'' was earning an average of 154,000 viewers on Fox Business Network. The first
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of 2016 had FBN experience its strongest ratings in its history with day programming up 111 percent in total viewers and 130 percent in the key age 25 to 54 demographic, compared to a year before. As of August 2017, Fox Business had surpassed CNBC's ratings for nine consecutive months, and ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' was the most-watched program in business news. CNBC announced in 2015 that it would no longer rely on Nielsen ratings to measure its daytime audience, turning to rival Cogent Reports instead.


Controversies


COVID-19 pandemic

On March 27, 2020, Trish Regan departed the network, amid criticism of a segment on the March 9 episode of ''Trish Regan Primetime'', where she accused Democrats of exploiting the
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solely to blame President
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for it, and launch another round of impeachment hearings. On December 23, 2020, ''Mornings with Maria'' aired an interview with a person who claimed to be
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CEO Dennis Organ, but was actually an
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from
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who warned that the
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could "effectively
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on the next pandemic.” Bartiromo issued a correction at the end of the show, admitting that they had been "punked".


Smartmatic election fraud claims

In November 2020, Fox Business anchors Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs promoted conspiracy theories during their programs, tying the
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manufacturer
Smartmatic Smartmatic (also referred as Smartmatic Corp. or Smartmatic International) or Smartmatic SGO Group is a multinational company that builds and implements electronic voting systems. The company also produces smart cities solutions (including publ ...
to
voter fraud Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of ...
during the
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. This included claims that it had ties to
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and the country of
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. In December 2020, Smartmatic requested a retraction of the coverage by Fox Business, Fox News,
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and
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, stating that it was "false and defamatory". To comply with the request, the two anchors' programs, as well as that of Fox News anchor
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, all aired a pre-recorded interview with Edward Perez, an election technology expert at the Open Source Election Technology Institute, which fact-checked various election fraud claims (including those surrounding Smartmatic). On February 4, 2021, Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News Media for defamation, specifically naming Bartiromo, Dobbs, and Pirro. The next day, Fox Business abruptly canceled ''Lou Dobbs Tonight''.


Availability


Outside the United States

On April 20, 2009, the
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approved Fox Business Network for distribution in Canada; it is currently available through
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's 'Ignite TV' service. As of July 2011, the channel is carried on
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(a fellow
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company at the time), its first European carriage deal. Fox Business HD was first broadcast in
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by cable provider
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in 2015, and it is also carried by Cellcom TV and Partner TV. In Australia, Sky News Business Channel (subsequently relaunched as Your Money in October 2018) have
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Fox Business Network during overnight hours since its launch in January 2008, until the channel was closed down in May 2019. The channel was operated by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd, which was partly owned by Sky plc in the United Kingdom (a fellow 21st Century Fox company at the time) until December 2016, when
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(a fellow Rupert Murdoch company) acquired the Australian broadcaster in its entirety. In the United Kingdom, Fox Business is available for streaming on the Fox News International mobile application.


Dispuite with Spectrum

In 2018, Fox Business Network decided to Spectrum, to remove FBN and FNC. Both channels were removed from the Spectrum lineup on May 1, 2018. On May 10, 2018, both Fox Business Network and Fox News returned to Spectrum after a hiatus.


High definition

The high-definition simulcast of Fox Business Network is broadcast in
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. Programming shown on this feed was originally produced in high-definition, but was cropped to a 4:3 image and pushed to the left side of the screen, with the extra room used for additional content, such as statistics and charts, and a wider ticker with more room; the information sidebar was named "The Fox HD Wing" (competitor channel CNBC HD used the enhanced HD format until October 13, 2014, when it was discontinued altogether). The sidebar graphic was dropped as a result of the network's switch to a 16:9
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format on September 17, 2012, ending the enhanced HD format altogether. The enhanced ticker and headlines, which were previously seen in the old sidebar graphic, were moved to the lower-third of the screen. Both the SD and HD feeds now use the same exact 16:9 letterbox format, just like its other Fox-owned sister networks.


The Fox 50

The Fox 50 is an industrial index of large companies that is used by FBN; it consists primarily of "the largest U.S. companies that make the products you know and use every day." The index includes:
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and
Merrill Lynch Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment bank ...
were included in the original index, but each was acquired by other companies in 2008. They were replaced by Wells Fargo and HP. In March 2011,
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,
Charles Schwab Corporation The Charles Schwab Corporation is an American multinational financial services company. It offers banking, commercial banking, investing and related services including consulting, and wealth management advisory services to both retail and instit ...
, Lowe's,
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, and
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were removed, and replaced by DuPont, Ford, JPMorgan, Pfizer, and UnitedHealth Group. This index is not available to purchase in the form of an
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or ETF. The fund received criticism from some financial bloggers for putting together an index with so many competing brands (such as FedEx and UPS; McDonald's and Yum! Brands; WalMart, Target and Costco; Apple, Dell and Microsoft; and Coca-Cola and PepsiCo).


Competitors

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*
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References


External links


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