Fox Business Net Sets Second GOP Debate

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Fox Business Network said it will host another Republican Presidential debate.

The debate will be held January 14 at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, S.C. The date is two days after President Obama is scheduled to deliver the State of the Union Address.

Its first debate in December drew 13.5 million viewer, by far the largest audience attracted by the eight year old business channel. Republican debates have been attracting record-setting audiences to a variety of cable news and business networks partly because of public fascination with Donald Trump, the businessman and reality TV star who is leading in most polls.

The huge audiences are also attracting ad prices much larger than usually seen by those networks in prime time.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.