Lou Dobbs Tonight
Format	Opinion/Talk program
Starring	Lou Dobbs
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CNN
Picture format	480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	June 1, 1980 (as Moneyline) – present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Lou Dobbs Tonight is an editorial and discussion program on CNN, anchored by journalist Lou Dobbs, who is also its managing editor. The hour-long show is aired live on evenings every weekday, and repeated later at night. It covers the major news stories of the day with a focus on politics and economics. Field correspondents provide additional reporting and occasionally serve as guest anchors. Notable politicians and economists are often guests on the show, facing Dobbs' often pointed questioning. Lou Dobbs Tonight is CNN's second most watched program, after Larry King Live. ^[1] This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... Louis Carl Dobbs (born September 24, 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Bold text:This article is about the written record of a meeting. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode. ... ... 1080i is a shorthand name for a category of video modes. ... High-definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. ... is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... Louis Carl Dobbs (born September 24, 1945), is the CNN anchor and managing editor for Lou Dobbs Tonight. ... Larry King Live is a nightly CNN interview program hosted by broadcaster and writer Larry King. ...

On November 4, 2006, a taped weekend edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, entitled Lou Dobbs this Week, began airing. The weekend show, which airs every Saturday and Sunday night, discusses a variety of heated issues from the past week and the week ahead.

Regular features

One regular feature on the show is "Exporting America", in which Dobbs documents the American companies that have offshored jobs to overseas facilities, as well as those businesses that have taken special steps to keep jobs on U.S. soil. Dobbs has compiled a list of companies that have outsourced that he has posted on the show's website and occasionally repeats on the air. Dobbs frequently criticizes U.S. international trade policy as insufficiently protecting American jobs, advocating in favor of what many consider to be economic protectionism in contrast to free trade. As part of his criticism of Globalization, Dobbs often notes that the United States is running trade deficits with virtually every major trading partner it has, especially China.[1] Offshore outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external organization to perform some business functions in a country other than the one where the products or services are actully developed or manufactured. ... International trade is the exchange of goods and services across international boundaries or territories. ... Protectionism is the economic policy of promoting favored domestic industries through the use of high tariffs and other regulations to discourage imports. ... Free trade is an economic concept referring to the selling of products between countries without tariffs or other trade barriers. ... Puxi side of Shanghai, China. ...

Another regular feature is "Broken Borders", which highlights what Dobbs considers to be the problems and costs associated with illegal immigrants, and the inefficiencies in the U.S. Border Patrol and immigration policies in general. Around the middle of the show a daily poll is opened that is answered on the shows website. Voting for the poll continues until the end of the show when the results of the poll along with some viewer comments are revealed. These polls are often overwhelming in their margins. Illegal immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently, in violation of the law or without documents permitting an immigrant to settle in that country. ... Categories: Stub | U.S. Dept. ...

Correspondents and production

Kitty Pilgrim is a correspondent for the program, and the most frequent substitute anchor when Dobbs is not on. Other reporters attached to Lou Dobbs Tonight are Dana Bash, Christine Romans, Lisa Sylvester, Bill Tucker, Suzanne Malveaux and Casey Wian. The show is broadcast live from CNN's New York studios, located in the Time Warner Center. Kitty Pilgrim is a New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN. Pilgrim serves mainly as the secondary anchor, on nights in which Lou Dobbs is not anchoring the program, as well as a regular correspondent for the CNN program Lou Dobbs Tonight. ... Dana Bash is a CNN reporter and anchorwoman. ... Christine Romans is a correspondent for CNNs Lou Dobbs Tonight. ... Suzanne Malveaux prepares to do a live broadcast on the pier of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Feb. ... Time Warner Center and Columbus Monument. ...

Criticism

Critics of his broadcast, such as the civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center allege Lou Dobbs Tonight regularly airs segments featuring and has as on-air guests that they consider to be prominent white supremacists without revealing their involvement in such groups.^[2][3] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American non-profit legal organization, whose stated purpose is to combat racism and promote civil rights through research, education and litigation. ...

Timeline of the program

• June 1, 1980: premiere date of both CNN and Moneyline. The latter was hosted by Lou Dobbs.
• June 7, 1999: Dobbs leaves CNN and CNNfn to found Space.com.^[4] He is succeeded as host of Moneyline by Willow Bay and Stuart Varney.
• March 19, 2001: Varney leaves Moneyline, leaving Bay as sole host of the program as rumors of a pending return of Dobbs swirl.^[5]
• May 14, 2001: Bay leaves Moneyline as Dobbs returns to the cable network and the anchor desk of the newly-rechristened Lou Dobbs Moneyline.^[6][7]
• June 9, 2003: CNN announces change of program name from Lou Dobbs Moneyline to Lou Dobbs Tonight. ^[8]
• November 4, 2006: weekend version of Lou Dobbs Tonight, named Lou Dobbs This Week, debuts.
• September 26, 2007: program began broadcasting in High Definition. This HD version currently can be seen on DirecTV's CNN HD service feed.
• 5 November 2007: Lou Dobbs Tonight switched timeslots with The Situation Room's 3rd hour making the latter 1 single news block starting at 16.00 ET. Lou Dobbs Tonight started airing at 19.00 ET.

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References

1. ^ Nielsen Media Research, March 2008. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/1Q'08%20(LIVESD)%20FINAL%20P2%20Cable%20News%20Program%20Ranker.pdf
2. ^ SPLCenter.org: Broken Record
3. ^ Nightly Nativism
4. ^ Announcement of Dobbs leaving CNN
5. ^ Announcement of Varney leaving CNN
6. ^ Time-Warner announcement of Dobbs' return to CNN
7. ^ "Brief" ratings article from Medialife Magazine showing new Moneyline moniker
8. ^ CNN announces Moneyline name change

External links

• Lou Dobbs Tonight official site