FBN Changes
It’s not exactly new news as this had been anticipated for some months now but TVNewser’s Chris Ariens reports that Melissa Francis’ new FBN show which now has the name “Money with Melissa Francis” will debut on Monday at 5pm, which in turn pushes The Willis Report to 6pm and Neil Cavuto’s show an hour later to 8pm.
Update: Evidently FBN had a change of plans. The original plan, as relayed via Mediaite back in February…
In addition, FBN is developing a new 5PM/ET program hosted by Melissa Francis who joined the network from CNBC earlier this year. The show will debut in the second quarter, at which point The Willis Report will move to 8PM/ET, enabling FBN to be the only business network providing viewers with uninterrupted live coverage of financial news from 5AM/ET to 9PM/ET.
Now, 8pm will be anchored by Cavuto live and not Willis.
May 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm
Maybe I don’t remember correctly, but I thought when they cancelled their primetime they announced that The Willis Report would take over the 8 PM slot once Francis’ show launched. That seemed to me why they had the repeat airing then.
May 30, 2012 at 7:41 pm
That was supposed to be the plan, Gerri moving to 8pm with a replay at 11pm.
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/fbn-primetime-overhaul/