Two new repackaged programs debuted on Fox Business Network yesterday as part of their shuffled daytime line-up. "Countdown to the Closing Bell," (anchored by Liz Claman) at 3pmET and "Fox Business Bulls & Bears," at 4pmET (anchored by Claman and David Asman) feature new logos and graphics:

After less than seven months in the anchor chair in New York, Fox Business anchor Peter Barnes is returning to Washington to be the Senior Washington correspondent for the network. Barnes had been co-anchor of Money for Breakfast since the channel's launch in October.

Insiders tell us Eric Bolling is among several Fox Bizers who will be rotated in to co-anchor with Alexis Glick. The Barnes move is effective Monday.

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Fox Business Network is featured in the new issue of Haute Living magazine (which dubs itself, "the new standard for luxury"). Many of the FBN personalities are quoted in the story, and the overriding theme is "team."

"The recurring sentiment echoed by FOX Business members is the team mentality, which many of the correspondents feel very comfortable with," writes Stephanie Wilson in the feature.

"Along the way, there are certain challenges that come up and come out, and you have to work as a family to try to figure them out," says anchor Jenna Lee.

The piece cites the "largest challenge" for FBN as "growth and distribution," but SVP and anchor Neil Cavuto stresses patience. "I know full well how daunting our odds are, but with FOX News President Roger Ailes' efforts and Rupert Murdoch's vision, we'll get there," he says.

(photo by Bob Martus of Haute Living magazine)

For the first time in the network's history, Fox Business Network was live on a Saturday yesterday, as anchor Liz Claman hosted, "Weekend with Warren," at 7pmET last night. And being live for that one hour proved to be tremendously lucky — at the end of the hour, Claman broke the news that the AP was reporting Microsoft was dropping its bid to acquire Yahoo.

At the time, only Fox News Channel was in live programming at 7pmET, and was the second network to report the news. While FBN spent their first (and, so far, only) live weekend hour from Omaha discussing Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, the breaking news at the end of the hour became the real coup.

Insiders tell TVNewser Claman got word of the AP story in her IFB earpiece from her producer during the final commercial break, and they decided to close with the breaking news at that time.

Tomorrow morning, Claman will interview Warren Buffett at 9:30amET, and we hear another surprise guest, someone on the Berkshire Hathaway board of directors, will be interviewed as well during the hour.

Jersey girl Liz Claman (okay, she's really from SoCal, but she's B & T these days...and damn proud of it) is featured in NJ Monthly's Park Place Magazine. Claman, who once had a sweet commute up the Hudson River to CNBC, lives in Edgewater, NJ, a stone's throw from Fox colleague Geraldo Rivera.

When she trained for the New York City Marathon as a way to figure out her next career step, she didn't even know Fox Business Network existed, but as soon as she heard about it, she quit CNBC. After she sat out the three months of her non-compete clause, Fox came calling.

"When you have a chance to work for a visionary, you don't just say no. These opportunities come along once in a lifetime," she says.

Liz Claman with husband Jeff Kepnes, an EP at CNN, and kids Gabrielle and Julian.

And over on Shine, the Yahoo! women's network, FBN's Alexis Glick did a Q and A with the Mommy Track'd blog:

You were seven months pregnant when you first began appearing on television. What was it like starting your first TV job while pregnant?

Glick: "It was wild! I had no training, no knowledge of cameras, television language or prompters. It was exhilarating, scary and memorable."

What is a presidential candidate to do when he's no longer running? Try hosting a TV show!

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will guest host America's Nightly Scoreboard tonight on Fox Business Network. The program airs live at 7pmET and is replayed at 10pmET. David Asman in the usual host for America's Nightly Scoreboard.

We hear the guest hosting job will just be for tonight's show.

For the first time in its short life, Fox Business Network will be live this weekend, if only for an hour.

Anchor Liz Claman announced today as she finished up an interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett that she would anchor a special, "Weekend with Warren," this Saturday at 7pmET on FBN.

The special will air live from Omaha, Nebraska, the site of the annual meeting attended by about 30,000 Berkshire Hathaway stockholders.

"Weekend with Warren," will feature a round-up of news and analysis from the meeting.

"You know, its a big deal, because we've only been alive here at Fox Business for what, six months? And we're going to take this chance," said Claman on the air.

• Related: Claman is featured in this month's LA Confidential, and discussed her hour-long October interview with Buffett: "I always overprepare. I spent weeks preparing. I flew into Omaha and Fox Business airlifted crews and hi-def cameras into town from all over the Midwest."

Happy Hour co-host Cody Willard spent some time with The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar and Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici last night at the Financial Times' annual "Meet the FT" party.

The FBN host — who previously said of MSNBC anchor Dan Abrams, "that dude's just jealous," — was in typical "jocular" form.

Sklar writes that Willard jokingly described the happenings at Happy Hour: "You guys don't even know, I get drunk during the show, not for the show!" He quickly recanted: "That was a joke, we never drink during the show" (It's true, we were there — no alcohol).

Bercovici writes about Willard's "signature look," the long hair. "You know what? I'll cut my hair when I want to cut it. It's all on my terms all the time," he said.

Willard did later agreed to Bercovici and Sklar's suggestion to cut his hair for charity. But then will he still be "the grunge Jim Cramer?"

(photo courtesy of The Huffington Post — pictured are Willard, reppin' the West Coast, and Bercovici)

On April 15, Fox Business Network celebrated its six-month anniversary. A day after its October launch, an FBN spokesperson told TVNewser it would be about 6-9 months before FBN has ratings data to release publicly. Now, it appears the wait for ratings will be longer than six months.

TVNewser has learned that FBN will remain in Nielsen's Access Stage, which prohibits public release of ratings information (although the network is receiving internal data). Once a network becomes a "full service client," the ratings can be released publicly and Nielsen can use the numbers as part of daily reporting.

Nielsen spokesperson Gary Holmes wouldn't comment specifically about the situation with FBN, but tells TVNewser, "That decision is a business decision made by the network. In the life of a network, a time comes when they decide that they want to share the ratings with advertisers. This process typically takes a year, year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. There's no time frame. It's really a business, strategic, decision."

According to FBN, there may be a different reason. FBN Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales Paul Rittenberg tells TVNewser, "Given Nielsen's recent accuracy issues, we feel it's best to wait until they can provide some precise degree of illumination on the data they've presented to us, especially given the margin of error on several of their digital measurements. Our number one priority is accountability for advertisers."

Nielsen has seen a couple recent glitches, resulting in inaccurate data in some cases.

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Exclusive: TVNewser has learned Fox Business Network has shown some signs of life, recently. The network's 8pmET offering, The Dave Ramsey Show, has topped business news competitor CNBC twice in the A25-54 demo. Ramsey topped a Fast Money re-air on March 26 (41K v. 28K) and beat High Net Worth on April 11 (52K v. 38K). Granted, this is only two hours of FBN's approximately 2,200 hours of programming since launch on Oct. 15, but it comes despite CNBC's 55 million household advantage. The CNBC programs topped Ramsey in Total Viewers on those nights.

TVNewser was given access to the data as part of our examination of the six-month-old network's ratings (more on that in our next post). We've learned FBN is not exactly celebrating the wins as the channel still does not trust the accuracy of the Nielsen data.