FBN cancels Happy Hour…Andrew Napolitano gets FBN weekend show.

First Fox Business Morning, Imus in the Evening, and Your Questions, Your Money…now add Happy Hour to the list of recently canceled FBN programs. TVNewser was the first to report it and Mediaite confirmed it. Another ratings related cancellation or was this a cost issue as well? Because it’s a live, daily remote the show is going to cost more than your average FBN hour which might have put added ratings pressure on the hour. Getting rid of the technical staff, rather than folding them back in to FBN somehow, is a possible clue that the cost of the show vs. the show’s ratings may have been the ultimate decider. On a personal note, Happy Hour was probably the FBN show I watched the most.

Update: TVNewser now reports that only seven “free lance” staffers were affected and not let go so the above analysis regarding the staffers is now rendered null and void..

I hear there’s still more changes coming, probably of the additive variety rather than of the subtractive variety we’ve been seeing lately…

Update 2: TVNewser suggests that recent hire Geri Willis may get the slot. That would indeed be a surprise move because Willis is so new with the channel and may upset the pecking order internally at FBN. FBN execs might have to spend some time smoothing things over with certain people who appeared to me to be on career trajectory upswings at the network, particularly Jenna Lee. Unless the network has other specific plans for Lee…

Update 3: The first of the “addititive” changes leaked out today. I’d heard rumors that Andrew Napolitano might get a show on FBN but today it was confirmed by Napolitano himself. Johnny Dollar has the audio from the Brian and the Judge show which also announced that the partnership was ending as a result…

Update 4: Mediaite reports that Eric Bolling is slotted for a primetime show.