Posted on 01/05/2008 6:18:41 AM PST by jalisco555
How many people are watching the new Fox Business Network?
About 6,300, on average, on any given weekday, according to early estimates compiled by Nielsen Media Research. By contrast, Fox Business’s chief competitor, CNBC, attracted about 283,000 viewers each weekday from Oct. 15 through Dec. 14, the first two months that Fox Business was on the air, according to Nielsen’s calculations.
While Nielsen, at the network’s request, has measured the viewership of Fox Business since its premiere, Nielsen is not permitted to release or even confirm those figures publicly. That is because they are so low as to fall below Nielsen’s minimum standards for reporting, said Gary Holmes, a Nielsen spokesman.
Both Fox and CNBC, however, have purchased versions of those weekly ratings reports from Nielsen, and a person who saw those internal reports vouched for their contents on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Mr. Holmes did confirm that Fox Business would have to reach a minimum threshold of 35,000 viewers — representing a tenth of a ratings point — before it could disclose the network’s audience publicly.
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Dish Network doesn’t even carry it. Hard to watch it, if your tv provider doesn’t carry it.
If it turns out to be as big a disappoint as FoxNews has become, I won’t miss it.
Since our Dish medium-priced package doesn’t carry Fox Business, I haven’t seen it. Distribution is definitely a problem.
All our TVs at work are in CNBC. We’ve been dying to get Fox Business. When our cable provider here in Los Angeles begins to carry it, we will be watching it.
It’s a matter of having access.
I get it through Time Warner Cable. It’s channel 104, and I had to hunt through all the channels just to find it. It’s sure been a quiet rollout as far as I can tell.
Comcast supposedly added it from day one but I'll be darned if I know where it is. I've searched and searched to no avail. So I gave up.
What's the objection to CNBC? I've always kind of liked it.
No objection to CNBC. I watch it all day.
I’d like to see Fox only to see what it’s like.
Dish doesn’t have it, period.
as a professional, i have plenty of objections to CNBC. there is too much hype, rah, rah, hysteria, noisemakers, goofing around - i spend all day calming people down. i prefer Bloomberg - business news straight up.
My cable system doesn’t carry it, how many people even have access to it. Looks like the left is doing what they did to Fox News originally and try to keep it off of most cable and satellite systems and say see noone wants the programming.
Call your cable provider if you want to give it a try.
Dish Network doesn’t even carry it. Hard to watch it, if your tv provider doesn’t carry it.
EXACTLY!! I would love to watch it but can`t get it, I am sure this is the main reason.
btw, The NYTIMES should be burnt to the ground.
The whole "Bunch of people sitting on a couch and chatting." format is awful. Deadly dull.
If it turns out to be as big a disappoint as FoxNews has become, I won’t miss it.
I am disappointed with Fox News right now as well. I still watch it a lot but have lost all respect for Hanitty because he is in the tank for Rudy. They have not been fair and balanced towards Fred Thompson either. I wish they would have a conservative with his own show.
I would watch it if I could get it on my cable. I am so disgusted with having channels I don’t want and not being able to just get the channels I do want. Blasted local cable monopoly. Let’s get some real competition.
I have not seen it advertised on DISH and have never seen a channel number for it, either.
I hope the FBN hangs in there. Unfortunately, they launched the network when the markets have been sucking wind. Not much pleasure in hearing bad news about your investments day after day.
What is it with DISH? They don’t even carry Fox News Channel on all of their plans? This is stupid, in my opinion.
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