edmo: Contrary to the headline, it looks like their going to replace politics with business news. Imagine that. On a business channel.

Nope. They're just replacing three political shows with re-airings of slightly less political shows.

Fox Business is dumber than CNBC, which I really didn't think was possible before Fox Business proved me wrong. Hopefully, CNBC will reverse the decision it made 5 years ago to make itself louder and dumber to compete with FBN. It's why I watched CNBC less and less over the years, and then pretty much stopped 4ish years ago.

Also, this

Those programs are Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano

is a hilariously dumb name for a show.

FARK does seem to have gone down in quality but they're trying to make it up with quantity. Or is it just me? If it's not is it working?

The Bestest: edmo: Contrary to the headline, it looks like their going to replace politics with business news. Imagine that. On a business channel.

Nope. They're just replacing three political shows with re-airings of slightly less political shows.

CNBC does the same thing. I don't understand how these two channels manage to survive given that they're competing for the same exact audience.

Rapmaster2000: Fox Business is dumber than CNBC, which I really didn't think was possible before Fox Business proved me wrong. Hopefully, CNBC will reverse the decision it made 5 years ago to make itself louder and dumber to compete with FBN. It's why I watched CNBC less and less over the years, and then pretty much stopped 4ish years ago.

Basically, if they got rid of Kudlow and that other doorknob, Rick Santelli, that gave the Tea Party folks chubbies back in 2009 they'd go a lot further towards being a respectable news channel. Dylan did a good job of getting his ass out of there and onto MSNBC (though he was the only thing that was enjoyable about the Fast Money show), but really unless they're gonna go and be the PBS of financial news, they should stop with the political stuff, keep the Money Hunnies fresh and un-opinionated, and fire Kudlow, et al

Knara: Rapmaster2000: Fox Business is dumber than CNBC, which I really didn't think was possible before Fox Business proved me wrong. Hopefully, CNBC will reverse the decision it made 5 years ago to make itself louder and dumber to compete with FBN. It's why I watched CNBC less and less over the years, and then pretty much stopped 4ish years ago.

Basically, if they got rid of Kudlow and that other doorknob, Rick Santelli, that gave the Tea Party folks chubbies back in 2009 they'd go a lot further towards being a respectable news channel. Dylan did a good job of getting his ass out of there and onto MSNBC (though he was the only thing that was enjoyable about the Fast Money show), but really unless they're gonna go and be the PBS of financial news, they should stop with the political stuff, keep the Money Hunnies fresh and un-opinionated, and fire Kudlow, et al

I always liked David Faber as well. He uses something almost unheard of on CNBC or FBN - numbers.

Joe Kernan devalues whatever he's on. His schtick is to grunt dismissively at everyone's commentary and opinions, and it's not like he's providing value as a contratrian or a bear. He just has nothing of value to offer. I don't understand his purpose.

Rapmaster2000: I always liked David Faber as well. He uses something almost unheard of on CNBC or FBN - numbers.

Yeah. "Squawk on the Street" seems (seemed?) to be at least a little less derpy than the rest of the shows, maybe because it airs earlier? When it starts (5am EST?) most of the rest of the country is still asleep so they can get away with not being as inflammatory and what not (sort of like how CNN early morning used to be).

Who watches biz news after 5pm anyway?

/5pm Eastern, that is
//Bloomberg laughs at your programming quality issues

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Yeah. There is absolutely nothing but the crawl on the bottom that has anything to do with 'business' or the economy. It's Fox News but on a different channel that thankfully is watched by almost no one.

Rapmaster2000: Fox Business is dumber than CNBC, which I really didn't think was possible before Fox Business proved me wrong. Hopefully, CNBC will reverse the decision it made 5 years ago to make itself louder and dumber to compete with FBN. It's why I watched CNBC less and less over the years, and then pretty much stopped 4ish years ago.

Also, this

Those programs are Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano

is a hilariously dumb name for a show.

That's why I switched to Bloomberg. I actually paid a $2/mo premium (IIRC) for it when I had Dish Network. Since I've gotten rid of satellite/cable, I don't have access to either CNBC or Bloomberg. I do, however, spend a lot of time in my car listening to SiriusXM, and I spend a lot of time on Bloomberg Radio. Sure, it's dry much of the time, but it *tends* to be much less political. The interviews are sometimes very lengthy, but they're also often detailed and actually legitimate. Certainly, it seems like the sensationalism that plagues CNBC and Fox Business is tempered significantly on Bloomberg.

It seems like most articles on CNBC.com are very bullish on days with upward market moves and very bearish on days with downward market moves. Not to mention, very few people know what in the hell the markets are going to do -- there's a *lot* of luck involved in making big gains in a short amount of time. It took me a few years of watching this charade to realize that there's almost no way to reliably beat the market. There are huge companies that spend many orders of magnitude more than I have and employ extremely smart people who study the markets nearly 24/7 who can't beat the market sometimes. Of course, some of those guys also MAKE / move the market themselves. Ugh.

Rapmaster2000: ...Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano

is a hilariously dumb name for a show.

Particularly because any Fox viewer knows that judges are unelected liberal activists imposing their will on that of the 'merican people in a way the Founding Fathers never intended.

They should change the format and call it "Red Meat with elected official from Real America."

WxGuy1: ...That's why I switched to Bloomberg...

Me, too.

I guess there's still some politics, but it's less overt and the faces are new to me.

Knara: CNBC does the same thing. I don't understand how these two channels manage to survive given that they're competing for the same exact audience.

Idiots?