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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, common-sense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73. Rukeyser died at his home in Greenwich after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer, said his brother, Bud Rukeyser. As host of "Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser" on public TV from 1970 until 2002, Rukeyser took a wry approach to the ups and downs in the marketplace and urged guests to avoid jargon. He brought finance and economics to ordinary viewers and investors, and...

Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73. Rukeyser died at his home in Greenwich after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the bone marrow, said his brother, Bud Rukeyser. As host of "Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser" on public TV from 1970 until 2002, Rukeyser took a wry approach to the ups and downs in the marketplace and urged guests to avoid jargon. He brought finance and economics to ordinary viewers and investors and was rewarded...

Louis Rukeyser Pulls Plug on Long-Running Financial Show The Associated Press Published: Oct 8, 2004 NEW YORK (AP) - Veteran financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, who has been off television for a year due to cancer, has asked CNBC to pull the plug on his long-running Friday night business news show. CNBC said that "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street," which has been airing with Consuelo Mack as substitute host, will cease production by the end of the year. Rukeyser, 71, had announced earlier this year that he had cancer in his lower back and said Friday that complications had developed. "I can...

NEW YORK - CNBC financial anchor Louis Rukeyser, who's been away on medical leave since last fall, has cancer but has promised a return to his weekly business show. Rukeyser said he underwent back surgery last fall to relieve persistent pain, but when the pain didn't go away, he went back for a checkup and a low-grade malignancy was discovered. Rukeyser said his doctors have advised him not to go back to work for several months. "I thank all of you for your kind thoughts, and as Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously declared as he left the Philippine Islands during World...

Rukeyser tries not to smile as he takes stock of the situation By Steve Johnson Tribune television critic Published July 1, 2003 Try as he might, Louis Rukeyser isn't able to keep the laughter heading entirely up his well-tailored sleeve. Public television's ill treatment of one of its few non-puppet superstars -- which had the feel of a debacle in the making last spring when Rukeyser was essentially elbowed out of the "Wall Street Week" show he founded -- has turned out, in fact, to be a debacle. "Wall Street Week With Fortune," the show Maryland Public Television, with the...

Entertainment: No winner yet in financial news war between Rukeyser, PBS Copyright © 2002 AP Online  Search the archive for: televisionWall $treet Week with Fortune onlineRUKEYSER.COMBy DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (July 29, 2002 10:33 a.m. EDT) - The aftermath of last spring's feud between Louis Rukeyser and Maryland Public Television recalls the famous Cold War acronym MAD - mutually assured destruction. It couldn't have happened anywhere but the Public Broadcasting Service, stung in this case by its unique decentralized structure. Fans of the veteran financial journalist know the basics. Rukeyser's Maryland producers wanted to de-emphasize his role...

CNBCBUSINESS TUESDAY o July 23, 2002 AJC.Com Rukeyser puts public broadcasting in uncomfortable position Matt Kempner - StaffTuesday, July 23, 2002Public broadcasting has come down with an ailment it apparently can't shake: Rukeyser's revenge. But public broadcasting officials don't look like they have much choice other than to accept their fate. Louis Rukeyser will not go away. The man considered a founding father of business news on TV has improved Friday night ratings on CNBC, to which he jumped this year after being dumped from a program he hosted for more than three decades on public broadcasting. Meanwhile, a remake...

New 'WSW' makes credible debutHosts and guests offer thoughtful financial discourseBy David FolkenflikSun Television WriterJune 29, 2002It started with the hyperkinetic energy of Fox News and ended with the soothing back-and-forth cadence of CSPAN's Book Notes. Yet the inaugural episode of Wall Street Week with Fortune suggests that, as advertised, it is possible to have a thoughtful and watchable financial news program without the puns and punditry of one Louis Rukeyser, the deposed king of the PBS show's original version. The program's producer, Maryland Public Television, has held out new hosts Geoffrey Colvin and Karen Gibbs as the Oscar and...

<p>A short time ago, it looked like a sad end for 69-year-old Louis Rukeyser. Learning that Maryland Public Television was planning to replace him as host of "Wall $treet Week" -- his own creation, and shown nationwide on public-TV stations -- he used the program to blast his bosses, who sacked him in March.</p>

<p>To err is human. But the Maryland Public Television "management" moves that wound up alienating its venerable host of Wall $treet Week, Louis Rukeyser, still boggle my mind. Searching in desperation for a comparable blunder to put L'affair Lou in some historical context, I've had to reach back past Hillarycare, beyond New Coke, all the way back to 1941, when Adolf Hitler invaded the Soviet Union after deciding that what he really needed to enjoy life was an Eastern front.</p>

The controversy over the decision to fire popular Wall Street analyst Louis Rukeyser after 32 years on public television has deepened, with the president of PBS urging public TV stations to reject Rukeyser's new show.In a letter this week to general managers of PBS affiliates across the United States, network President Pat Mitchell denounced what she called Rukeyser's ''campaign of misinformation and misrepresentation'' in offering his new program to public stations.The new half-hour program, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, debuts tonight at 8:30 on the cable business-news network CNBC. CNBC is offering the show free to PBS stations for repeat broadcasts...

Louis Rukeyser, who recently got booted from "public" television, said today he would launch a business program April 19 on CNBC. "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street" will differ little from the old "Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser," he said. "We'll touch up the cosmetics a bit, but it will be a very familiar session," he said. "It will have all 22 of my previous panelists, all of whom have rejected appearing on any other program and said they will come with me wherever I go."

Louis Rukeyser will join CNBC And: Koppel to remain with 'Nightline, ABC says By Jon Friedman, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 9:45 AM ET April 9, 2002 NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Louis Rukeyser, forced out of television last month after 32 years, is returning -- on CNBC, the cable network said Tuesday. The announcement ended speculation about Rukeyser's future on TV. It's turning out to be a good time for broadcasting seniors, as it was also announced that Ted Koppel will remain with "Nightline" on ABC, part of the Walt Disney Co. (DIS: news, chart, profile) media and entertainment empire. CNBC, owned...

Fans raise roof over Rukeyser flapBy Del Jones USA TODAY Viewer reaction to Louis Rukeyser's abrupt departure from Wall Street Week after 32 years has been unprecedented in volume and venom, with fans threatening to withhold contributions, PBS stations report.Maryland Public Television, which produces the show, told Rukeyser last week that he would no longer be host. On the show Friday, Rukeyser chewed out MPT and appealed to viewers to call affiliates.Programming director John Flanzer at Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh, N.Y., says he was met Monday with a "deluge" of a dozen calls and 60 to 70 e-mails.David Hosley,...