Imus In Talks For Primetime (6-9 am) Faux BUSINESS Channel Simulcast?

[BlooInBloo]

Weird. I can't think of anything it means but faux business channel is giving up as well.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2009/08/so-now-we-know-why.html

"So now we know why Don Imus has been kissing up to Fox Business News lo this many months on his radio show, muttering the network's praises, having on Neil Cavuto as a frequent guest, and expressing a deep, warm stirring at the husky sound of Liz Claman's chesty voice:

Froggy and Fox Biz News been a-courtin'.

Fox Business is in talks with shock jock Don Imus about simulcasting his radio show, more than two years after derogatory comments he made about a group of African American female basketball players got him kicked off MSNBC and CBS Radio.

The provocative and popular radio host is in final negotiations with the financial news network, which plans to simulcast his syndicated early-morning radio show, possibly from 3 to 6 a.m. Pacific time, as MSNBC did, according to a source familiar with the discussions. No deal is in place yet between the two parties, but if the talks conclude as anticipated, the arrangement could start sometime in September.

Since late 2007, “Imus in the Morning” has been simulcast on RFD-TV, a cable network that covers rural America and agriculture, an arrangement that would end with the new Fox Business Network deal, the source said.

I have to agree with Henry Blodget (yeah, him) that for FBN such a radical morning makeover would be hoisting a surrender flag in the battle for Wall St cred."


EDIT: Forgot linky.

[davepc]

1. Since when has 6AM been considered primetime?

[BlooInBloo]

2. Since the business world has existed.

[davepc]

3. I guess thats why Seinfield and Friends were on at 10AM.

[BlooInBloo]

5. Don't know the show, and don't know what's on at 10am.

[davepc]

6. Maybe this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time

Prime time or primetime is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening.

The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period, for example, from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

...

In North America, television networks feed their prime time programming in two blocks: one for the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones, and one for the Pacific, Alaskan, and Hawaiian time zones to their local affiliates. In Atlantic Canada (including Newfoundland) as well as Alaska and Hawaii there is no change in the interpretation or usage of "prime time" as the concept is not attached to time zones in any way.

In North America the hours traditionally taken as constituting prime time are 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm Eastern and Pacific and 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Central and Mountain Monday–Saturday. On Sundays, prime time begins an hour earlier, at 7:00 pm Eastern and Pacific and 6:00 pm Central and Mountain, ending at the same time as on the other six days of the week. Note that for cable networks, such as USA, TBS, and ABC Family, prime time is 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm all seven days of the week. Some networks such as Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV only broadcast from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm, a time period known as "common prime." The CW does not program Saturday prime time, and MyNetworkTV does not program Sunday prime time. Starting September 2009, neither will program weekend primetime at all.

Any reference to a show broadcast at 6AM as being on in 'prime time' is laughable and incorrect.

[BlooInBloo]

7. *yawn*

[madeline_con]

4. This I do not get: "...provocative and popular radio host ..."

:wtf:

[tularetom]

8. I don't even think I get the Fox Business Channel

WTF does Don Anus have to do with business anyway.

Maybe they should put him on the regular Fox channel. Crappy as his show was, it was better than Gretchen whatever and her two smiling dildos on fox & fiends.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Me neither. At least I don't think I do.