Posted on 09/03/2009 12:32:25 PM PDT by kingattax
Controversial radio show host Don Imus will be joining the Fox Business lineup as the result of multi-year year deal the channel announced Thursday to simulcast "Imus in the Morning" starting Oct. 5. The program will air 6 to 9 a.m. weekdays on the Rupert Murdoch owned channel.
“We’re excited to welcome a renowned broadcaster like Don Imus to the Fox Business team. His 40 years of on-air experience combined with his superb interviewing skills and capitalist sensibilities will be a great addition to our lineup," Kevin Magee, executive vice president of Fox Business, said in a statement.
According to the Fox release, the program, will will "add business news into its format which now offers a mix of current affairs, politics, entertainment and sports."
“I love Fox. Roger Ailes [president of the Fox News Channel] is the preeminent genius of American Broadcasting. Who wouldn't want to do this?" Imus said in the press release from Fox.
Imus was fired by CBS, which syndicated his radio show, and MSNBC, which simulcast it on cable, in 2007 after making on-air remarks about the Rurgers University womens' basketball program that were deemed to be racist by some. In the wake of the Imus remarks, advertisers bolted the show
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I’m not a fan.
Good for Imus! I wonder if Shawn’s interview of the Imus’ at their ranch had anything to do with it? I have seen his show occasionally on RFD channel, but he looked a bit unhealthy due to his cancer and emphyzema(sp?) on the Hannity show. Well wishes to him.
It is truly stunning how much Fox Business Channel is struggling. It has to be channel placement as the main reason. It is in the high 100s on my cable meanwhile CNBC is right after CNN and right before MSNBC.
They should simulcast Glenn Beck’s radio show in the morning on Fox Biz if they were smart. This move is worthless.
DirectTV keeps Fox Business Channel out of the basic lineup, its a pay extra for channel.
I listened to Imus for a couple of years of drive time. He’s an idiot.
Imus is a yutz
he can be entertaining in small doses and I genuinely like Charles but anything more than my 15 minute drive to the train station starts to make me queasy
I don’t think it’s a good idea for Fox to associate with Don Imus - he’s not even that much of a fun guy to listen to and even less to watch. I’m completely ignoring the “nappy” controversy because that was a fake story drummed up by race pimps.
Nappy headed business people?
I don’t think it’s channel placement. I live in LA with cable access. Fox News is not even carried on the biggest carrier in LA, Time Warner. I think Time Warner is one of two cable providers in LA.
This is the problem in other cities as well.
I love Fox Business Channel, but you’re right, it’s up at 149 on our cable box. CNBC is something like 47.
Cavuto’s show at 6 is a must see. I also like that Cody kid on Happy Hour (although I read he’s 37, so he’s not really a kid, just acts like one, LOL.) But IMHO, the women need to dress a little more “professionally,” as in business attire.
Is his brother still around, FRed?
talk about a loose set of cannons.. -)
Press releases in entertainment always feature the word “excited” in the first sentence or the first graph.
How excited could anyone be about this.
It’s like putting Col. Sanders on The Food Channel.
Hmmph.
Most cable providers do not offer Fox. I’m in LA with the largest provider. No Fox Business.
I think the Don Imus is dead. He just doesn’t have the good grace to lay down.
Every trading room I have ever walked into had CNBC on the TV.
Imus might draw viewers from Morning Joe but I don’t know how many viewers MSNBC even has at that time in the morning.
Joe Scarborough himself is getting tiresome as the only allegedly “conservative” counter to the rest of the left-leaning chatterers. He spends most of his time calling liberals “nice people” and chastising conservatives for standing up for their beliefs. I generally watch Morning Joe to get the “other side” of the debates.
Maybe I can get that from Imus instead if he runs a relatively family-friendly show and not some of the routines he did on MSNBC.
The thing is is they simulcast Beck who is going to watch him later on if they are busy? Would they have to simulcast Hanity and the rest of the show broadcasters? I say they are doing a good thing bringing Imus out of the hinterlands and it may even boost the business channel watchers.
My favorite Fred story was when he lost a cantaloupe in his house and couldn’t find it for about two weeks. How bad does your house have to be not not smell a cantaloupe after a week? LOL!
I am an institutional equities trader and have many screens on my desk. I keep CNBC on my desk at all times. Time Warner does not offer Fox Business.
“I listened to Imus for a couple of years of drive time. He’s an idiot.”
I listened to Imus for a couple of SHOWS. He’s an idiot.
I have watched Fox Business a couple times both times they were cheerleading the market. Friends and associates of mine have said the very same thing about FBC.
Why?
Honestly, I haven’t been that impressed with Fox Business. It seems more like it’s the Fox News junior varsity squad than a business network; many of the stories are political instead of business related. That’s what people will watch the main Fox News for, and instead watch CNBC or Bloomberg for business news.
You know, CNBC has some really good content and documentaries, so I’m surprised at how informative their shows are and yet at the same MSNBC can be complete tripe.
Roger needs to branch out more for the channel...there is no reason why this network should only be pulling in 190k viewers a day on average.
At various times in the past I’ve had to do regular road trips to get to job sites, and was always looking for something to listen to to make the time pass.
Imus was often entertaining in small doses, but usually wound up irritating me. One day he got on a particularly offensive rant, went on and on, and at some point said “if you don’t like what I’m saying, turn the dial”. I did, and mostly stopped listening altogether.
Beck, Ingraham, they’re ok where they’re available when I have to do morning road trips. Since the election, though, I went through a long period where I couldn’t bear to listen to any kind of news or talk on radio or tv at all, so its been music mostly, discovery-travel-history channel stuff on tv, I avoided news and politics altogether except here on line. I’m finally getting over it a bit, but only a bit. I still mostly get my news on line, can’t stand tv or radio news at all these days. On the road its music and I try to keep thinking happy thoughts.
What is Imus, about 300 years old now?
Like him or not, Imus does get his guests
to sometimes spill some worthwhile info.
I can’t wait ‘til he starts .. this was
really, really smart of Fox. And MSNBC
let him go ... LOL. They’re SO stoopid.
Yes he does. Like the time McCain told him he's rather have clean government than free speech.
I am curious if Don has a bit of resentment toward the lefties who through him under the bus and started that entire mess.
I find imus to be about as entertaining as FOX's blowhard (O'reilly). I find that both of them are equally infuriating at times and generally irritating overall.
I am curious to see if Imus moved a bit right from his libertine/populist perch.
Gonna miss Jenna and Alexis which was the reason for watching.
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