FBN to air special on America’s Nightly Scorecard…
Tonight, FBN will present a special edition of America’s Nightly Scoreboard, “How to Stay Up in a Down Market,” at 7pm ET.
Host David Asman along with a group of mortgage brokers, financials experts, journalists and political strategists will discuss what Washington and the Presidential candidates are doing to stimulate the economy, how homeowners and renters can take advantage of the current housing downturn and how to boost your financial portfolio in such a volatile market. Personal finance expert and host of The Dave Ramsey Show on FOX Business Network will discuss ways in which Americans can not only survive during this period of economic downturn but also how they can make money, save money and thrive during what many fear is becoming a recession.
And in related news, news websites in small markets have more people looking at them than FBN.
Comment by Don — January 21, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
But at least FBN has live programming today. Stock futures are down 520+ points at the moment, and CNBC is running, or rerunning stuff that’s already aired a million times. Asian and European markets took huge hits today (yes, they were open) and CNBC USA is running docs. CNBC could, and SHOULD simulcast CNBC Asia, CNBC Europe, CNBC Australia, CNBC India, etc. on Market Holidays in the United States.
Stock markets across the world took hits as large, if not larger than the ones that took place immediately following 9/11. This is a huge day, and tomorrow, stocks are going to get creamed, but CNBC viewers wouldn’t know anything is wrong until 4am when CNBC wakes up from their sleep.
Comment by Nobody — January 21, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Well, CNBC has a channel called “CNBC World”.
Comment by Kevin — January 21, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
^ Or CNBC viewers could simply flip on CNBC World, eh. With that said, I’m unsure of CNBCW’s sub base in the US. But, it comes in nice and clear on Directv.
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
It seems CNBC World is on Dish too.. so, that means they have at least 33M subs. And thats not counting any cablers who might carry them. Btw, Nobody, how is that Cablevision or Dish carriage coming along? :>
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 2:46 pm
It’s coming along great for me. Cablevision added FBN a few weeks ago.
Comment by johnny dollar — January 21, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
^ Do you have a link to a presser? Because I haven’t heard anything about it.
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
I read about it on some obscure cable news gossip site:
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2008/01/08/8626/
Comment by johnny dollar — January 21, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
That link doesn’t say squat about Cablevision.
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 4:22 pm
I don’t think Fox has Cablevision yet. It would be pretty big news if they did. Is it like 3 million in the tri-state area? Mostly in the long Island area.
Comment by Lurker — January 21, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Oh, you are right. I confused Comcast and Cablevision. My bad. I just moved and forget that I have Comcast now.
Comment by johnny dollar — January 21, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
Johnny Dollar, did you move JUST to get FBN?? Because you could’ve looked in my window for free.
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
Nope. But I’ll keep that offer in mind next time I’m in your neighborhood. ;)
Comment by johnny dollar — January 21, 2008 @ 5:00 pm
Don (#1): Congrats for finally completing a post without any spelling or grammatical errors!
Terance: I just wrote a column about FBN and the subscriber issue but apparently it no longer makes it to (Spud’s?) search engines. It is available on my website and Chronwatch.com in the blog section.
And I thank Lurker for the info about the New York area.
Comment by Ira — January 21, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
Ira, how did you come up with that 10M figure? Directv has 17M subs although I’m unsure of how many of those get the “Choice Xtra/FBN” package. My guess would be between 5-7M because they have packages below the “Choice” too. (Side note: CNBCW is part of the “Choice” as is FNC, MSNBC, CNN, HLN, Bloomberg) Finally I’m still waiting on ANYBODY to tell me: When the nets say they’re available in 90M homes, does that include the 33M from Directv/Dish??
Comment by Terance — January 21, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
Terance: I took an educated guess!
Comcast has about 23 million total subs and I’ll guess that about half get the expanded digital tier. However, when FBN began on 10/15, the only large markets where Comcast (with 23 million total subs) was offering Fox Business were Baltimore and DC with Houston added a week later.
As for Direct TV, I’ll accept your figure of about 5-7 million for the expanded tier for FBN. I did some research on Cox Cable and as Lurker has noted, Cablevision hasn’t yet added FBN in most of the New York City Area.
Given some of the above, the announced 32 million launch was definitely a bogus number. Now with Comcast fully on board and some of the other cable giants to follow, we should some more meaningful results for FBN when the first ratings are FORMALLY released later this year.
And yes, as far as I know, the 90 million figure for CNBC and others do include Direct TV and Dish Network.
Comment by Ira — January 22, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
This should read: “we should see more meaningful results”
My bad!
Comment by Ira — January 22, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Ok, Ira. I’ve been very suspicious of FBN and their PR hacks claiming 32M+ viewers from the start. IMO, you only should count households that actually receive the channel.. not ones who have to get a digital box or upgrade a package to receive it. Btw, I think Glick said she was going to Davos earlier.. I guess being tardy is better than not showing up at all, eh.
Comment by Terance — January 22, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Terance: Thus far, except for Alexis/Peter Barnes, I like all of the other FBN pairings, especially Stuart Varney and Dagen McDowell.
Maybe they should be the morning team.
Comment by Ira — January 22, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Ira, I really like Stuart Varney and Dagen McDowell together too! And I don’t really care for Peter Barnes at all.. he sorta reminds me of when Bill McCuddy hosted weekend F&F.
Comment by Terance — January 22, 2008 @ 8:44 pm