Business Networks to Air Obama Presidential Address

All three of the US business news channels are to air President Obama's primte time address on Wednesday night with coverage on all sides beginning at 8pm ET.  CNBC announced its coverage plans today, whilst Fox Business announced its plans to air a special with Neil Cavuto anchoring, over the weekend.  Bloomberg will also air the address.

News Corp made the headlines over the weekend by announcing that it was not going to air the address on its mainstream Fox network, instead broadcasting regularly scheduled programming.  Instead, on air prompts will be broadcast advising viewers to tune to either Fox News or the Fox Business Network.  The other major broadcast networks will be pre-empting its schedules for the address.