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“Wall Street Week,” the venerable program that has been around in one form or another since 1970, is moving beyond its usual focus on the ups and downs of the stock market.

The program, which was originally produced by Maryland Public Television and hosted by Louis Rukeyser, has long focused on interviews with prominent Wall Streeters. Starting Friday, September 20, the show will instead feature a series of enterprise stories drawn from the reporting of the journalism of Bloomberg, which currently produces the show and has aired it on its cable network and other properties since 2020.

“We thought we’d turn it from being interview-driven to being story-driven, more like a traditional newsmagazine,” says David Westin, the show’s host and a former president of ABC News, during a recent interview. A “60 Minutes” that specializes in business and economics? “I’ve asked around about it,” says Westin. “I’m not sure...

David Westin, the Bloomberg TV anchor, will focus more intently on duties tied to “Wall Street Week” as the network focuses more intently on breaking-news coverage throughout the market day.

Westin will host the weekly show, which has ties to the PBS original hosted by Louis Rukeyser, while anchoring daily “Wall Street Week” segments tied to the program. The daily segments will feature a rotating panel of influential voices and thought leaders.

He will leave his duties on “Balance of Power,” which will shift to 5 p.m. weekdays rather than noon, and move to Washington, D.C. from New York. “Balance” will be co-anchored by Annmarie Hordern and Joe Mathieu. Executives expect the retooled show to include more original reporting and roundtable discussions.

The changes go into effect as of March 13.

The moves take place as Bloomberg TV works to capture more energy from market-moving tech news. “Bloomberg Technology” will...

“Wall Street Week” is on the road again.

Bloomberg’s TV and radio operations will debut a new edition of the venerable financial-discussion program, this time titled “Bloomberg Wall Street Week,” tonight, January 10, at 6 p.m. eastern. David Westin will anchor the weekly one-hour program, the result of a licensing agreement between Bloomberg and Maryland Public Television, which still holds rights to the property.

“The TV program airs at a time, at the end of the week, when people can come and hear about the two or three most interesting stories affecting business, finance and the economy, with perspective from leaders in the industry,” says Westin, in an interview. Bloomberg executives, he adds, feel that “this is something that is underserved, or unserved, right now.”

And like its predecessor, the show will have a rotating panel of influentials. Panelists regularly contributing to the program include: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers...

Anthony Scaramucci is no stranger to taking risks, but his bold and unusual decision to revive a legendary television franchise on his own dime paid off and resulted in “Wall Street Week” landing on the rapidly growing Fox Business Network. “We want to eliminate the jargon,” Scaramucci told TheWrap. “Bill O’Reilly has a no-spin zone, we want to have a jargon-free zone.” “Wall Street Week” was an iconic PBS business program that aired on PBS every Friday night for 35 years, most of that time anchored by the late Louis Rukeyser. PBS ended its run in 2005 when non-Rukeyser hosts failed.

Fox Business Network’s new investment program “Wall Street Week” premieres on Friday, March 18 at 8 p.m. Et / 5 Pt with co-hosts Anthony Scaramucci and Gary Kaminsky. But the show isn’t new. It ran for 35 years on PBS. Scaramucci resurrected the iconic PBS program, originally hosted by award-winning financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, last year. The relaunch was a risky move, as Scaramucci initially purchased airtime from Fox affiliates to bring spotlight to the show. For the last year it has aired Sunday mornings on Fox-owned stations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The move apparently paid.

NEW YORK -- The PBS show Wall Street Week has been canceled and will go off the air in June, according to a report in The New York Times Thursday. Maryland Public Television, the program's producer, and PBS, which distributes it to member stations, are expected to announce Thursday that the shows last broadcast will be June 24, said the report. The program's creator and host, Louis Rukeyser, was ousted three years ago as part of an effort to attract a younger audience. Previously called "Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser," the show was renamed Wall Street Week with Fortune and became a joint production with Fortune magazine. Since the program's reintroduction, its hosts have included Geoffrey Colvin, the editorial director of Fortune, and Karen Gibbs, a former senior business correspondent for Fox News.

NEW YORK -- CNBC will look back on the career of one of the most famous financial journalists, Louis Rukeyser, with a special tribute Friday. Rukeyser, who hosted a PBS show for more than 30 years and also had a show on CNBC, decided this year to stop production of Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street following an illness. CNBC said the special will feature reminiscences by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Forbes CEO Steve Forbes, Fidelity vice chairman Peter Lynch and Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md. The show will air at 6:30 p.m. and will repeat Dec. 31 at 6:30 p.m. It also is being picked up by PBS stations nationwide.

NEW YORK -- "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street" will sign off by year's end. CNBC said Friday that its host, financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, won't be returning to the show that he left this year because of his health. "I am still recuperating from serious complications that have taken much longer than seemed reasonable over the past year, and I can no longer predict when I will be ready to rejoin you here," Rukeyser said in a statement released by CNBC. Rukeyser hosted a show on PBS for 32 years before going to CNBC for the program that airs Friday night and also airs on 162 PBS stations during the weekend. CNBC said Friday that the show would leave the air by Dec. 31, but until then will air at 7:30 p.m. Friday and be hosted by Consuelo Mack. No replacement show has been named.