Fox Business Network
Summary
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that commenced broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. The network discusses business and financial news and currently is available in about 49 million places in the United States as of June 2009.News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed the launch at his keynote address at the 2007 McGraw-Hill Media Summit on February 8, 2007. Day-to-day operations are run by Kevin Magee, executive vice president of Fox News; Neil Cavuto manages content and business news coverage. Ray Hennessey directs the FoxBusiness.com website.Murdoch had publicly stated that if the purchase of The Wall Street Journal went through and if it were legally possible, he would have rechristened the channel with a name that has "Journal" in it.
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Twitter and Facebook are new media owners and competitors says WPP’s Sorrell
As Advertising Week kicks off WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has been writing about how business must embrace the digital revolution and talking about how social networks are competitors to companies like his.
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Quotes of the Week: From St. Bride's congregation of 'utter bastards' to journalist on toast for dinner
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Quotes of the Week: From Fleet Street Fox to how knowing Latin got a journalist a worldwide scoop
Susie Boniface (aka Fleet Street Fox) reveals herself in The Times [£]: "It’s funny, my real name, Susie Boniface, has been in papers for 18 years and Fleet Street Fox has been around for five minutes, but she’s better known than I am.
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News Corp's publishing unit no longer useful 'as a cash cow'
Ahead of News Corp's break-up into two separate divisions, its publishing arm gets a big thumbs down from a US analyst. In a stinging comment the analyst writes:.
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'The Following' on Fox Opens With Good Ratings
The violent drama averaged 10. 4 million viewers in the coveted 18- to 49-year-old audience, and delivered a bit of good news to Fox after a dismal fall season for the network.
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TV Sports: Change in YES Ownership Unlikely to Alter Yankees-Heavy Format
Fox Sports is expected to bring some of its programming to the YES Network as it starts a national sports network, but the channel will still be all about the Yankees.
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This Week in Review: Twitter vs. TV on election night, and the significance of Nate Silver
Twitter vs. TV on election night: Just like virtually every other point in the campaign that led up to it, this week’s U. S. election brought record levels of engagement on social media — Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. Twitter celebrated enduring the day without an outage, though Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz was less than impressed.
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How news orgs plan to avoid bad calls on election night
The New York Times | Jim Romenesko | The Wall Street Journal Network executives all “cited the journalism chestnut that it’s better to be right than first” when Brian Stelter asked them about their plans for calling races… Read more.
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Fox News falls for fake iPhone 5 laser keyboard video
The new iPhone 5 certainly has some new features to tempt iPhone fans, but what it doesn’t have is a laser keyboard that beams out or holographic video features.
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Audit Notes: WSJ Live, scot free, Martin Feldstein
Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray says the paper's WSJ Live video efforts are growing at a torrid pace, quadrupling last year's pace with 28 million streams last month, Forbes reports. The fast growth of WSJ Live hasn’t been lost on professionals in the video business, including some of the TV folks from Fox.
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