Fox Business Network (NWS) posted embarrassing numbers when Nielsen reported the channel had only 6,300 viewers at any given time on weekdays. For a two month period beginning October 15, rival CNBC (GE) had 283,000 viewer per average weekday.

Online FoxBusiness.com does better. According to comScore numbers, in December the site had 365,000 unique visitors and 683,000 visits. CNBC.com had 696,000 unique visitors and 1.489 million visits.

Fox might do better if it closed the network and kept the website.

Douglas A. McIntyre