FOX Business Network Taps The Wall Street Journal’s Gerry Baker for Weekly Primetime Series
November 12 2018 - 1:43PM
Business Wire
FOX Business Network (FBN) will debut a new weekly primetime
show hosted by The Wall Street Journal’s Editor-at-Large Gerry
Baker on Friday, November 30th, announced Brian Jones, president of
the network. The program, entitled WSJ AT LARGE WITH GERRY
BAKER, will air Fridays at 9:30PM/ET following Maria
Bartiromo’s Wall Street (9PM/ET) and feature interviews with major
industry leaders impacting Wall Street, Washington and business in
America.
In making the announcement, Jones said, “We’ve assembled the
best team in business news and we’re excited to add Gerry to the
roster. The combination of Bartiromo and Baker will make the 9PM/ET
hour one of the most informative and comprehensive in cable
news.”
Baker added, “I’m thrilled to be starting this new venture at
FBN. I look forward to the opportunity to explore in depth with
some of the finest minds in the world each week the issues and
trends that are defining our modern world.”
Each Friday, Baker will welcome major influencers from across
the business, finance, politics and tech space to lead thoughtful
discussions on the major news of the week. Additionally, Baker will
also expand upon the larger trends impacting business in America.
The weekly half-hour program will follow Maria Bartiromo’s Wall
Street, which has one of the most affluent audiences in all of
cable, according to Nielsen Media Research, creating a powerful and
informative hour of business television.
Throughout the years, Baker has contributed formidable economic
insight and analysis across multiple FBN and FOX News Channel (FNC)
programs. In November 2015, Baker joined global markets editor
Maria Bartiromo and managing editor of business news Neil Cavuto to
moderate FBN’s inaugural presidential primary debate. According to
Nielsen data, the debate delivered 13.5 million total viewers and
3.7 million in the key 25-54 demo, making it the highest-rated
program in the network’s history.
In addition to his role on FBN, Baker currently serves as the
Editor-at-Large for the Wall Street Journal and writes the “Editor
at Large” column for the Review section. From 2013 through 2018,
Baker held the Editor-in-Chief title for both Dow Jones and The
Wall Street Journal. Prior to that, he was the news organization’s
Deputy Editor-in-Chief between 2009 and 2013.
Previously, Baker was U.S. editor and an assistant editor of the
Times of London. In 1994, he joined the Financial Times (FT) as
Tokyo correspondent, moving on to head the paper's Washington
bureau and serving as the FT's chief U.S. commentator. He also
covered economics for the BBC and worked as an economist at the
Bank of England and Lloyds. Mr. Baker holds a degree in philosophy,
politics and economics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford
University.
FOX Business Network is a financial news channel delivering
real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main
Street and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York — the business
capital of the world — FBN launched in October 2007 and is the
leading business network on television, topping CNBC in Business
Day viewers for the last eight consecutive quarters. Owned by 21st
Century Fox, FBN is available in more than 80 million homes with
bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and London.
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