Lou Dobbs is back on FOX business network for 2011

Lou Dobbs is back now on FOX business network


Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lou Dobbs, the former CNN anchor who quit last November after 27 years with the cable-news network, is joining News Corp.’s Fox Business Network to start his own show.




Dobbs, 65, will develop and host a daily show that will start in the first quarter, New York-based Fox Business said today in a statement. He will also provide analysis and commentary across the network’s programs, as part of the multiyear agreement.



At CNN, Dobbs drew controversy for his coverage of illegal immigrants and questioning of President Barack Obama’s citizenship. His ratings declined after the 2008 presidential race and he announced his departure from the Time Warner Inc. 24-hour news channel almost exactly a year ago. In its last years, “Lou Dobbs Tonight” had focused less on business and more on the economic impact of trade, immigration and the loss of middle-class jobs in the U.S.



When he quit, Dobbs vowed to work to change the way these issues had become defined by “partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous, empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion.”