Fox Business Happy Hour

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Fox Business Happy Hour
GenreBusiness News program
Presented by Rebecca Diamond
Cody Willard
Eric Bolling
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locations Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
Camera setup multi-camera
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original network Fox Business Network
Original releaseOctober 15, 2007 (2007-10-15) 
June 4, 2010 (2010-06-04)

Fox Business Happy Hour was an American financial program aired on the Fox Business Network weekdays from 5-6pm Eastern Time and was hosted by Rebecca Diamond, Cody Willard and Eric Bolling.

About the program

Debuting on October 15, 2007, this program takes viewers outside work to get the inside story of what's making news inside and outside the business world. This show, which originally consisted of 2 co-hosts, Rebecca Gomez (now Rebecca Diamond) and Cody Willard, is set in a bar as it is produced at the Bull & Bear pub in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The show concluded its run on June 4, 2010; to be replaced by "The Willis Report," anchored by Gerri Willis three days later.

Eric Bolling, who was previously a panelist on CNBC's Fast Money and is now a co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five and a host of Fox Business Network's Follow the Money, joined the show as a panelist in August 2008 until he became the show's third co-host in November of that same year.

Segments

Some of the regular segments of this show (listed alphabetically) include the following:

Special broadcasts

On February 1, 2008, Fox Business Happy Hour was broadcast live from Scottsdale, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix). This first-ever remote broadcast on location aired 2 days before Super Bowl XLII.

On March 13 and 14, 2008, this program was broadcast live from Miami. The March 14 broadcast covered that day's 195-point plunge on the Dow.

Short segments of the program are shown during New York Yankees game broadcasts on the YES Network.

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