All three business networks will provide live coverage of tonight’s State of the Union speech and Republican response.

On Fox Business, Neil Cavuto will anchor beginning at 9pmET. Cavuto will be joined by Peter Barnes and Rich Edson from Washington, DC. John Stossel will host a special edition of “Stossel,” featuring a live studio audience, at 11pmET.

CNBC will have two hours of live coverage beginning at 9pmET. Carl Quintanilla will anchor, with chief Washington correspondent John Harwood reporting from DC.

Bloomberg TV’s coverage also kicks of at 9pmET. Trish Regan will anchor, joined by chief Washington correspondent Peter Cook and White House correspondent Hans Nichols.

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.

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.”

Fox Business Network host John Stossel is interviewed by The Heritage Foundation, and is asked about his gig at FBN, and why he left ABC News:

“Because it sucked there. They were hostile to these ideas that made us prosperous and I consider so important. They tolerated me for years. I got good ratings so they pout this stuff on, and held their nose and put it on, but by the end they were saying ‘you are predictable Stossel, all you want to do is libertarian economics all the time.’”

“America Live” anchor Megyn Kelly stopped by John Stossel‘s Fox Business program this week to talk about walking the line between news and entertainment. Using an example from Kelly’s own show, Stossel pointed out every second devoted to light stories takes away from serious news.

“We could completely transform ourself into the most boring network possible. It’s already out there. It’s called C-SPAN,” Kelly said in response. “They do a good service, but who watches? … I think this is a problem a lot of the other networks don’t get, but Fox News does. The key is to give them the news but not bore them to death.” Watch:

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Fox Business anchor John Stossel told the Atlantic Wire about his media diet this week. He admits to occasionally watching MSNBC (“Rachel Maddow is the best but her love of big government gets under my skin”) and reflects on the recent changes he sees in the TV news business:

It is a little sad how the media is compartmentalized now. It used to feel like there was a community when everybody shared the same media. You had three TV channels and all your neighbors read The New York Times. But it was far sadder back then because The Times covered the spectrum of news from the left and the extreme left and people at ABC thought that was real life. At least now they know there’s a different point of view.

Glenn Beck‘s final Fox News show is set for tomorrow. And now we know what’s coming next.

This Friday at 5pmET, Fox News will run the John Stossel special, “What’s Great about America.” After that … more Beck.

Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti tells TVNewser, “We will run encore presentations of ‘Glenn Beck’ next week and will announce our plans shortly.”

At its peak, Beck brought the 5pmET timeslot to second place in all of cable news. But that was 2009. While still handily winning the hour, year-to-date (compared to the same period last year), Beck’s show is down -23% in Total Viewers and down -32% in A25-54 viewers, the most of any show on Fox News.

Four years ago, ABC News ran a story from correspondent John Stossel about Dr. Frederick K.C. Price (pictured right), the founder of Crenshaw Christian Center and subject of an investigation. The team was looking into whether ministers were using donations from their congregation to support luxury lifestyles.

The LA Times explains what happened:

The segment featured a 10-second video clip taken from a previously televised sermon that showed Price saying: “I live in a 25-room mansion, I have my own $6-million yacht, I have my own private jet and I have my own helicopter and I have seven luxury automobiles.”

In reality, Price did not own any of those things: He was preaching about a hypothetical person who was rich but spiritually unsatisfied. “Friends, to me that’s bad success,” Price added during the sermon, though that part was cut from the ABC News segment.

Stossel may have left ABC to join Fox Business network, but Crenshaw did not forget the piece, and yesterday ABC News formally apologized. Update: ABC News actually apologized to Price shortly after the story aired four years ago, the new apology was the result of a legal settlement between the organization and Price. A transcript of Stossel’s apology is after the jump.

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“Almost everything is live,” John Stossel tells People of anchoring “Stossel” at Fox Business Network, which he joined in the fall of 2009. “I had to face it.”

“It” refers to Stossel’s stuttering, which he discusses in the magazine’s April 11 issue (no link available).

Stossel moved to FBN after serving as co-anchor of ABC’s “20/20″, under a contract that ensured he would not have to do live broadcasting. 

With his new job, ”I decided  it was time for me to face my fears and, if necessary, just stutter away. The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.”

Stossel says he still must work at battling the speech impediment, utilizing breathing and speaking techniques.

“The practice is thunderously boring,” he says, “but you really have to do it. My career was on the line.”

> Earlier on TVNewser: John Stossel Takes On Hollywood, ‘The King’s Speech’

Tonight, ABC will televise the Academy Awards, and one of the front-runners for Best Picture is The King’s Speech. That film is about King George VI, who was a stutterer.

On his Fox Business network program this week, John Stossel set his sights on Hollywood, and The King’s Speech in particular:

Stossel, you see, was once a stutterer himself.

He spoke to the Chicago Sun Times about the film, and his own experiences:

“That method is accurate and works, but that delayed auditory feedback approach could have been employed whenever the king had to give a speech — given it was over the radio. But that wouldn’t have given us much of a dramatic movie, would it?” said Stossel with a laugh.

Stossel also says he saw a pro-libertarian message in the film:

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