FOX Business Network Closes 2022 as Leader in Business News for Full Year

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Dec 15, 2022

FOX Business Network (FBN) closed out 2022 as the leader in business news, outpacing CNBC in Business Day viewers and delivering the network’s highest-rated year since 2020 in the coveted 25-54 advertising demo, according to Nielsen Media Research. For the first time since 2019, FBN dominated the business news ranker with Larry Kudlow’s Kudlow(weekdays, 4 PM/ET) and Stuart Varney’s Varney & Co(weekdays, 9 AM-12 PM/ET) placing as the top two programs in business news for the year, with Kudlow notching a new ratings record (312,000 total viewers) for the 4 PM/ET hour. Notably, while all core FBN programming saw year-over-year growth, CNBC delivered a series of record lows, including: its lowest-rated year in primetime since 2013 with viewers, its lowest-rated year with the younger demo since 1992, its lowest-rated Business Day ratings since 2019 with total viewers and the 25-54 demo as well as its lowest-rated Total Day ratings since 2019 with total viewers and since 1992 with the young demo.