first quarter of a Pac-12 football game between Washington and Stanford from FS1 to FS2 (which does not have wide carriage) due to a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series overrun, that Fox would prefer the use of FBN for future Pac-12 overflow situations, as it has significantly wider distribution (if not slightly wider than FS1 in terms of total households) than FS2, and that it would carry minimal impact to programming. On-air staff Anchors/hosts David Asman Maria Bartiromo Neil Cavuto Liz Claman Jackie DeAngelis Kennedy Dagen McDowell Charles Payne Lauren Simonetti Stuart Varney Ashley Webster Reporters These reporters are based in New York unless otherwise stated. Charles Gasparino Gerri Willis Contributors Nigel Farage Jonathan Hoenig Dave Ramsey Former on-air staff Deirdre Bolton (2014–2020, now with ABC News) Brenda Buttner (2007–2016, deceased) Melissa Francis (2012–2020) Alexis Glick (2007–2009), Money for Breakfast and The Opening Bell on Fox Business; no longer in the television industry Lou Dobbs (2011–2021) Terry Keenan, host of Cashin' In (2002–2009) (deceased) John Layfield, now at WWE Jenna Lee (2007–2010), Fox Business Morning; no longer in the television industry Nicole Petallides (2007–2018, now with TD Ameritrade Network) Trish Regan (2015–2020) Adam Shapiro, now with Yahoo! Finance John Stossel (2009–2016) Brian Sullivan, now with CNBC Tom Sullivan (2007-2017), now hosts a syndicated talk radio program Ratings On January 4, 2008, The New York Times and several other media outlets reported that FBN had registered an average of 6,300 viewers, far below Nielsen's 35,000-viewer threshold. The number was so low that neither Nielsen nor FBN were allowed to confirm the number. The Times and other media outlets noted the network is less than four months old and only in one-third as many households as is CNBC. In July 2008, Nielsen estimated that FBN averaged 8,000 viewers per daytime hour and 20,000 per prime time hour, compared to 284,000 and 191,000 (respectively) for CNBC. Because FBN's viewership remained low, Nielsen had difficulty estimating viewership, and the estimates are not statistically significant. At the time, FBN was available in approximately 40 million homes to CNBC's over 90 million. In the fall 2008, FBN was losing to CNBC in the ratings by over 10 to 1. By June 2009, showed FBN with an average of 21,000 viewers between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m., still under the Nielsen threshold, and less than 10% of CNBC's 232,000 for the same time span. At this point,