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Wall St Journal radio network gone at end of year

That makes absolutely no sense, even for Ditto-heads. News Corp owns The Journal. They own Fox. The The Journal is THE leading business publication and DJ is THE leading brand for business news (Bloomberg may get the title someday but not yet). Fox, despite having a business channel, has nowhere near the identity for business news. They'd be better off re-branding FBN as the Dow Jones Network.

Besides, Fox is the tea party network. That's the identity Ailes has established. The Journal (and Barron's) are publications for the corporate elite - the Republican establishment - who have nothing but contempt for the unwashed, blue collar trash of the tea party. They may use them, manipulate them and pander to them but they otherwise can't stand them.
 
umfan said:
I wonder if News Corp is getting Dow Jones out of radio so it can create a Fox Business branded radio product?
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They already offer "Fox News Radio Business Reports" one-minute, fed at :20 and :30on the same satellite channel as the one-minute Fox News Updates.
 
FredLeonard said:
That makes absolutely no sense, even for Ditto-heads. News Corp owns The Journal. They own Fox. The The Journal is THE leading business publication and DJ is THE leading brand for business news (Bloomberg may get the title someday but not yet). Fox, despite having a business channel, has nowhere near the identity for business news. They'd be better off re-branding FBN as the Dow Jones Network.

Besides, Fox is the tea party network. That's the identity Ailes has established. The Journal (and Barron's) are publications for the corporate elite - the Republican establishment - who have nothing but contempt for the unwashed, blue collar trash of the tea party. They may use them, manipulate them and pander to them but they otherwise can't stand them.
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I don't know how it's possible for you to post something that has a little bit of truth in it (Fox Business doesn't have the brand recognition of the WSJ) and still manage to be so crass and ignorant. It really is a sight to see.
 
FredLeonard said:
The Journal (and Barron's) are publications for the corporate elite - the Republican establishment - who have nothing but contempt for the unwashed, blue collar trash of the tea party.
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The Corporate Elite supports the Democrat Party, and vice-versa. The GOP establishment is the wealthy professionals, small business owners, those with significant but diversified stock portfolios but not control of any single mega-corporation, and the rest of the country club set. If you don't understand how the sides line up regarding political parties, how can anything else you say be taken seriously.

Ravens said:
I don't know how it's possible for you to post something that has a little bit of truth in it (Fox Business doesn't have the brand recognition of the WSJ) and still manage to be so crass and ignorant. It really is a sight to see.
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Fox has better brand recognition as a broadcast/cable media outlet. The Wall Street Journal has better brand recognition as a business newspaper. The thing is, being the top brand in one area doesn't automatically translate into being the top brand name in a different area. No other newspaper or magazine has been able to translate their brand name recognition over to broadcast or cable media. That's why there's no New York Times cable news network.

You are correct, however, about the crass and ignorant part.
 
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Avid Listener said:
The Corporate Elite supports the Democrat Party, and vice-versa. The GOP establishment is the wealthy professionals, small business owners, those with significant but diversified stock portfolios but not control of any single mega-corporation, and the rest of the country club set. If you don't understand how the sides line up regarding political parties, how can anything else you say be taken seriously.
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You need to do a little more homework on this. The corporate elite, directly and through PACs or 501C groups, puts far more money into Republican campaigns than Democratic. Yes, they give money to Democrats; they cover their bets. But not nearly as much. Often the money going to candidates of either party doesn't come from the corporation; the elite pressures employees to fork over.
 
News Corp already has a rovust Fox Presence on radio. They could leverage the vacuum created by the ending of WSJ radio to create a Fox Business Channel radio product.

I hope some morning news magazine emerges to take the place of WSJ This Morning. As I said, America in the Morning would fill this nicely, but I doubt CBS would sell it in markets where they have an all newser.
 
FredLeonard said:
You need to do a little more homework on this. The corporate elite, directly and through PACs or 501C groups, puts far more money into Republican campaigns than Democratic. Yes, they give money to Democrats; they cover their bets. But not nearly as much. Often the money going to candidates of either party doesn't come from the corporation; the elite pressures employees to fork over.
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I'm sorry, but there is only one word that completely and accurately summarizes your statement.

Bullshit!
 
Avid Listener said:
I'm sorry, but there is only one word that completely and accurately summarizes your statement.

Bullshit!
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I suppose you repeat a lie often enough people do believe it. Goebbels said it. McCarthy, Nixon and Rush used it. Lie, lie, lie. Deny, deny, deny. If challenged call them biased or communist. The mantra of the right.
 
FredLeonard said:
I suppose you repeat a lie often enough people do believe it. Goebbels said it. McCarthy, Nixon and Rush used it. Lie, lie, lie. Deny, deny, deny. If challenged call them biased or communist. The mantra of the right.
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And if you repeat the truth often enough, idiots will still refuse to believe it.
 
FredLeonard said:
You need to do a little more homework on this. The corporate elite, directly and through PACs or 501C groups, puts far more money into Republican campaigns than Democratic. Yes, they give money to Democrats; they cover their bets. But not nearly as much. Often the money going to candidates of either party doesn't come from the corporation; the elite pressures employees to fork over.
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Millionaires support Republicans. Billionaires support Democrats.
 
Oh, I'm so broken up about this. Without the WSJ Report, how would I have known that Andy Warhol paintings make a great tax hedge investment? :)
 
I don't know if they produced one in advance for the holiday, but WSJ This Morning aired today and the site is still active. Don't know if that means these products will continue or not.
 
A "new" program will debut tomorrow, "This Morning: America's First News" with Gordon Deal. Basically the same show but without WSJ's branding.
 
The FOX business updates already existed for several years. They are fed hourly during the business day at :20 via Premiere.
 
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