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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]

On November 4, 2006; A 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.

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].

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. 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 Christine Romans, Lisa Sylvester, Bill Tucker and Casey Wian. The show is broadcast live from CNN's New York studios, located in the Time Warner Center.

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]

• 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.

1. ^ Nielsen Media Research, April 2007. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/apr07ranker.pdf
2. ^ http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=589
3. ^ http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/eviatar
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

• Lou Dobbs Tonight official site