
Fox Business cancels ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’
Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Fox News Media announced Friday it canceled its highly rated show hosted by Lou Dobbs one day after he was named in a $ 2.7 billion defamation suit filed by voting technology company Smartmatic. The media company didn't disclose why Lou Dobbs Tonight was benched from the Fox Business lineup. The show will be replaced by Fox Business Tonight with hosts Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman. Advertisement "As we said in October, Fox News Media regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on Fox Business -- this is part of those planned changes," a network representative said in a statement to NBC News. Dobbs, 75, began hosting the program on Fox in 2011 after rising to fame on CNN. In response ...