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Liz Claman is the latest Fox anchor to make a guest appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” The Fox Business Network anchor will join the roundtable on Sunday. A few weeks ago, Greta Van Susteren went on the show. And perhaps the most prominent Fox News appearance on ABC’s “This Week” came a couple years ago, when Roger Ailes was a guest as Barbara Walters filled in as moderator.

Of all cross-network talent bookings, ABC and Fox News share the most. Bill O’Reilly appearing on “The View” or “Good Morning America,” can be as common as Walters or Diane Sawyer turning up on “The O’Reilly Factor”.

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Fox Business Network’s John Stossel joined the Stuttering Foundation at their New York gala last Tuesday celebrating National Stuttering Awareness Week.

Stossel, who has fought a stutter his whole life, still battles the speech impediment, utilizing breathing and speaking techniques. At the gala, the ogranization’s president Jane Fraser presented Stossel with the Foundation’s “Converting Awareness into Action” Award.

“John has been a long-time friend of the Foundation and a true champion for people who stutter. He readily admits that stuttering is still a concern for him and shows his courage every evening as he faces the camera,” said Fraser.

The business networks have been in overdrive after J.P. Morgan revealed a $2 billion loss at a London trading unit yesterday. During a live special report last night on Fox Business, Charlie Gasparino reported he talked to CEO Jamie Dimon after the news broke.

“I find him to be refreshingly frank, and that’s essentially what he was,” Gasparino said of the conversation. “He said, ‘listen, we screwed up.’” Watch:

FBN also preempted “Imus in the Morning” today for a special report on the J.P. Morgan news.

Dimon acknowledged on a conference call yesterday that the losses were “somewhat related” to a single London-based trader nicknamed “the London whale,” who was making large bets on credit derivatives. Bloomberg TV’s Stephanie Ruhle broke that story in April.

Nicole Petallides and Lauren Simonetti of Fox Business Network were on hand at the NYSE this morning to ring the opening bell, joining co-founders and students from the Newmark Schools, a group of schools in New Jersey for children with learning disabilities. Petallides is also the emcee of a benefit for the schools that will be held at the NYSE tonight.

This weekend is Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting, and the business networks have coverage planned for the company, led by billionaire Warren Buffett.

Becky Quick will be in Omaha for CNBC, running through the weekend. FBN’s Liz Claman will be reporting from outside the meeting this weekend, and gives tips to attendees here.

Of course Buffett will also be giving interviews, both FBN and CNBC are claiming “exclusives.”

Buffett will be appearing first on CNBC Monday morning, where he will be a guest on “Squawk Box” for all three hours of the program from 6-9 AM. At 9:30 AM, Buffett will be appearing in a joint interview with Microsoft founder Bill Gates on FBN.

All the cable news networks, including those run by News Corp., reported this morning’s findings from the British parliament, that company CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run the corporation. The BBC reports that the culture committee of parliament, “has concluded that Mr. Murdoch exhibited ‘wilful blindness’ to what was going on in News Corporation. But the committee was split six to four with Tory members refusing to endorse the report and branding it ‘partisan.’”

The story broke just after 6:30amET. News Corp.’s Fox Business and Bloomberg were the first U.S. channels to report the findings, followed soon-after by CNBC. The business channels have reported the story several times since, including coverage from a news conference. CNN has reported the story more than a half dozen times according to a search in TVEyes. Fox News has reported it once, just after 8am and MSNBC first reported it in the 9amET hour. The “Today” show, “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning” all reported the story in the 7am half hour.

CNBC will announce tomorrow morning that Gary Schreier is returning to CNBC after spending the last 16 years with Fox News and Fox Business. TVNewser hears Schreier will EP Maria Bartiromo’s 3pmET show “Closing Bell.” Schreier was Neil Cavuto’s executive producer at both Fox News and, later Fox Business. Schreier has been with Cavuto since his days at CNBC and made the jump with him to FNC in 1996. He also helped launch FBN in 2007. An FBN staffer tells  TVNewser, “this is a major loss for the network.” Schreier’s last day at FBN is tomorrow.

> Update: Done deal. Nik Deogun‘s note to staff after the jump…

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This afternoon Fox Business Network’s “Closing Bell” celebrated 1,000 episodes, with Liz Claman giving some much-deserved shout-outs:

Claman also spoke to the Boston Herald, where she gave some financial advice.

“Just because the government isn’t cutting its spending doesn’t mean you should follow suit. Look over your entire balance sheet of your household. I’m talking about your cable bill, your electricity bill, everything. Then figure out ways to slice and dice.”

Note: when figuring out what part of the cable bill to cut, make sure that the TV news channels aren’t victims.

Fox Business Network anchor John Stossel has walked back comments he made last week in a conversation with the Heritage Foundation. Stossel said that he left ABC News “Because it sucked there,” adding that he felt ostracized because of his libertarian views.

“I regret my choice of words last week,” Stossel says. “I worked 28 years at ABC News. Much of my ABC experience was very positive and I wish them well. I found a new home at Fox that welcomes my free market ideas.”

For the first time in its 4 1/2 year life, a program on the Fox Business Network has topped a show on CNBC for an entire week in both Total Viewers and younger viewers. Last week, in head-to-head competition at 7pmET, “Lou Dobbs Tonight” beat “The Kudlow Report” (Mon-Thurs, and a Friday airing of a CNBC documentary) by 18,000 Total Viewers.

 

• Dobbs — 154,000 Total Viewers / 44,000 A25-54 viewers

• Kudlow — 136,000 Total Viewers / 35,000 A25-54 viewers

A few weeks ago Dobbs topped Kudlow in younger viewers for the week. Dobbs’ show joined the Fox Business schedule a little over a year ago. Dobbs hosted a 7pm show for many years on CNN before joining FBN in 2010. The win comes despite the fact that CNBC is available in 99 million homes vs. FBN’s 67 million.