Posted by 3-2700 on October 29, 2009 at 18:43:53:
October 28, 2009
BY LEWIS LAZARE Media & Marketing Columnist
Tom Hudson, co-anchor and managing editor of First Business Network�s nationally-syndicated �First Business� is leaving the program after an eight-year stint to take a job with PBS� longstanding �Nightly Business Report.� First Business Network is a subsidiary of Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting.
Hudson has been a fixture on the locally-produced �First Business� program since mid-2003. A search is currently underway for Hudson�s successor.
Hudson�s co-anchor Beejal Patel will continue on with the show. �Tom Hudson is an exceptional broadcast journalist, and we wish him the best,� said �First Business� Executive Producer Harvey Moshman, who hopes to have Hudson�s replacement on board by the end of the year.
In recent years, the 30-minute �First Business� product had featured Hudson and Patel offering commentary from the floors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, as well as the show�s expanded studios in the west loop. The show launched in 1989 as a production of the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., and it is now syndicated in 126 markets nationally. Over the years �First Business� has attracted various high-profile sponsors, including Sprint, Ameritrade and IBM.