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Fox Business Channel

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I wasn't able to watch FBC debut today. Did anyone see it? I think it is destined for failure but I could definitely be wrong. Seems to me that CNBC is nowhere near being a left of center operation like CNN was perceived to be when FNC started and CNBC has plenty of sources to make up for the lack of the Journal which has been past its prime for years (Reuters and the FT of London, not to mention Business week and a few others could easily take up the slack for gravitas). I enjoy watching Squawk and the other daytime shows but I am not a fan of their PM schedule which is too frat house for my taste. Fox says it wants to be Kitchen table about it, but I wonder if Kitchen table investors actually care about the markets more than knowing how the S&P did today. They are predicting profitability by 2011. My guess is that it won't happen. There is no niche for them to fill. Now if something changes, like CNBC gets sold off to Comcast (suggested today on Squawk, BTW), then all bets are off.
 
It looks pretty good and they have some strong talent from what I have seen.
They had a very good tour of the CBOT among other things this morning and they actually name stocks on the ticker as opposed to symbols.
 
Comcast Atlanta just had to add it to its digital lineup on launch day. Turned it on for a second, saw right-wing propaganda, and turned it off. I hope Fixed (Fox) Business and its sister conservative opinion channel fail.

Oh yeah, the stock market had to fall 100 points and oil prices reach an all-time high on launch day. How conincidential.
 
I turned it on at 5:30 this morning. I missed the launch by 1/2 hour. I have it on Comcast channel 106 and in HD on DirecTv channel 359. In HD, they put the screen to the left in 4x3 ond use the extra space on the right for more graphics.
 
I'm not a business oriented person but I predict that Fox Business Channel will succeed.

I'm impressed with their presentation. Been watching a bits and pieces of it on Direct TV channel 359.

I won't be watching this channel very often but I wish them the best of success.

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Hmmm, wasn't aware comcast was adding it so soon. Right now its paid advertising, so I guess i'll have to wait until tommoeow.

Anyway, I think it will do fine. I think people who watch fox news, will watch this. Bloomberg is the channel I would worry about.
 
Irishfl said:
Hmmm, wasn't aware comcast was adding it so soon. Right now its paid advertising, so I guess i'll have to wait until tommoeow.

Anyway, I think it will do fine. I think people who watch fox news, will watch this. Bloomberg is the channel I would worry about.
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If the people who watch Fox News are catching up on Business News it would change the FNC viewer stereotype (like finding out the New York Post readers are desperate to catch up on the Wall Street Journal in their spare time). I cought some commentaries on the new channel mentioning that CNBC is too anti-business (!). My feeling is that the folks at FNC have confused good business journalism, which by default requires getting around CEO's weasel words and PR folks so you can make good investment decisions, with liberal journalism. Big investors will see through FBC if they start becoming a PR site for business not wanting to face tough questions and the money from advertisers will dry up fast- goodbye UBS account, hello 19.99 junk commercials. The business channels are all about quality of vewers, not quantity of vewers. Is that something FBC can deliver? I am skeptical.

Bloomberg has recently improved. I caught some of it yesterday and it looked good.
 
jal41 said:
Oh yeah, the stock market had to fall 100 points and oil prices reach an all-time high on launch day. How conincidential.
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Could you imagine if Fox decided to launch their business channel this Friday? Now THAT would have been coincidental, given it's the anniversary of one of Wall Street's worst days...
 
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