Fox Business Network Slams CNBC In New Ad Airing On Time Warner Cable

FOX Business Network has bought ads on Time Warner Cable that directly criticize CNBC’s lacking coverage of the U.S. credit downgrade over a week ago.

While FBN and Bloomberg News were airing live coverage of the breaking downgrade news and President Obama’s address the previous Sunday announcing a debt ceiling deal, according to the Associated Press, CNBC continued to air its pre-taped programming.

The FBN ad boasts their news team was “moving faster, working harder,” and asks “Where was CNBC?” cutting to the requisite cricket-chirping. Fox buying ad time on Time Warner Cable means that they are boldly challenging a rival on their home turf. The ad campaign is expected to run throughout the week (though the ad has been conspicuously absent since Monday afternoon), and will begin airing in Philadelphia next week.

Watch the ad below, courtesy of YouTube:

h/t Daily News

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