In response to our post yesterday about Fox Business Network's three-part interview this week with Joe Skinner, McDonald's Vice Chairman and CEO, CNBC sent us a note suggesting that their upstart rivals are somewhat late to the McDonald's game.

To wit: earlier this year, CNBC produced an original primetime special called Big Mac: Inside the McDonald’s Empire, which premiered on July 25, 2007, and was CNBC's best ever documentary premiere in both total viewers and adults 25-54.  read more »

For the rest of the week Fox Business Network's "Money for Breakfast" will be served up with a side order of McDonald's.

To wit: today through Friday, Fox Business Network's Alexis Glick will be conducting a three part interview with Joe Skinner, McDonald's Vice Chairman and CEO.

The interview, according to the press release, was filmed in one of McDonald’s "flagship" restaurants in Oak Brook, Illinois, and promises to touch upon a range of issues facing McDonald's, including branding, global expansion and the fast-food chain's "entry in the coffee wars."

The Fox Business Network announced today that it will be launching a new, hour-long morning show, called Opening Bell. The 9 AM show will debut, Monday Dec. 17. Alexis Glick—the winsome former New York City high school basketball star and erstwhile CNBC contributor, who currently co-hosts with Peter Barnes FBN's 6 AM to 9 AM Money for Breakfast—will anchor the new show.

According to today's press release, the show will focus "on the market, stock updates and major business headlines of the day."

CNBC's Donnie Deutsch--who recently told The Observer that Fox Business "will go after me like they go after everyone"--had more to say today about his new rival.

"He's throwing grenades, and I'm a warrior so I respect that," Mr Deutsch told Portfolio.com's Lloyd Grove in an interview today, referring to Fox News president Roger Ailes. "Nobody's curing cancer here, and so people are going take off the gloves and want to knock dukes. That's fucking America, man! That's what this country is, so to me, I'll pick a guy like Roger Ailes any day of the week."

Mr. Ailes, however, may not feel the same way about Mr. Deutsch. He recently told the Columbus Dispatch, "I'm not sure if Donny Deutsch is really the answer for them, even though he announces he is. I'm not sure it's anything more than a very expensive way to meet girls for him."