Fox Business Lets All Subs Watch Debate

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Cable and satellite distributors will let subscribers who don't usually get Fox Business Network watch the Republican presidential debates airing on Jan. 14.

Fox Business has reached agreements with DirecTV, Suddenlink, Mediacom, Wide Open West and Cox Communications, along with a number of NCTC members to unbundle the channel.

The network made a similar agreement to let viewers watch debates in November, which drew 13.5 million viewers.

The Jan. 14 debate will focus on economic, domestic and international policy issues and will air live from the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, S.C.

Fox Business is available in 80 million homes.

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.