Talking Biz News has the internal memo from CNBC Managing Editor Nick Deogun on CNBC poaching Brian Sullivan from FBN. Sullivan’s bio has been purged from the FBN website. This is a bit of a blow for FBN as Sullivan was one of the better anchors the network had during its business day coverage. Of course any hole created is an opportunity for someone to step up and fill it. Who will be that person?
Archive for April 15, 2011
Lou Dobbs Interview
Posted in FBN on April 15, 2011 by icn2TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio interviews FBN’s Lou Dobbs…
TV Guide Magazine: The TV audience for business news isn’t huge. You founded CNNfn, a competitor to CNBC that didn’t survive. How do you think Fox Business Network will be able to break through?
Dobbs: My job is to build an audience for my broadcast and that’s what we’re working strenuously to do. We’ve managed to get the program on and now our job is to build an audience. It’s going to take months before we become competitive… We are the underdog and we understand that. It’s one of the great things about being at Fox Business. Everybody I know here relishes being the underdog and being competitive and focused on being competitive. I love that spirit.
TV Guide Magazine: Your new show kind of feels like what you were doing during your last few years at CNN, which did not really feel like a business show.
Dobbs: It doesn’t to you?
TV Guide Magazine: No. You talk a lot about public policy. When I heard Glenn Beck was leaving, I thought ‘I could see Lou Dobbs in this time slot on the Fox News Channel.’
Dobbs: Well that’s very nice of you. You do realize I’ve got an assignment.
Don Imus’ Time Nearly Up? Charles McCord’s Time Apparently is…
Posted in FBN on April 15, 2011 by icn2FTVLive is reporting that FBN execs are really close to separating themselves from the I-man. Kind of hard to believe after watching Kevin Magee’s performance on the show but FTVLive does have a very good track record on such matter, albeit one that sometimes takes a very long time to pan out.
Very Related: The New York Daily News’ David Hinckley writes that Imus’ sidekick, Charles McCord is likely to retire within weeks…
Several media sources said Thursday that Charles McCord, whose role on Imus’s WABC radio and Fox Business Network morning shows has always gone far beyond his official position as newsman, is retiring after 48 years behind the microphone.
McCord’s departure would alter the Imus show, where for over four decades Imus and McCord have developed one of radio’s longest lasting partnerships.
Sources indicated McCord could leave within the next two or three weeks.
McCord leaving IS a big deal.
