• 15 Jul 2011 at 1:06 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin To Be The First Thing You See In The Morning

By Bess Levin

First thing you see on TV, that is, as ARS is replacing Carl Quintanilla on Squawk Box. Apparently the CNBC team searched high and low for the right person to recreate the raw chemistry between the long-running threesome of Joe, Becky and Carl and concluded Sorkin’s the man for the job.

From CNBC:

Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla made Squawk Box must-watch television thanks to their chemistry, creativity and, above all, content expertise. Every morning, Squawk distills oceans of information on global markets, companies and politics so that the nation’s most affluent and influential viewers can start their day smarter. While Squawk Box has been a powerful brand since inception, the Squawk team, both on the air and behind the scenes, has elevated its game since the beginning of the financial crisis. Squawk Box delivers great guest hosts, big interviews and scoops every day.

Replacing Carl on Squawk Boxis no easy task, but we are thrilled to announce that Andrew Ross Sorkin is joining the CNBC team to co-host Squawk Box every morning with Joe and Becky. As a CNBC contributor, Andrew has long been an extended member of both the CNBC and Squawk families, and we’re pleased he will now be a part of our morning team. Through his articles and columns, his book “Too Big to Fail,” and his appearances on CNBC and elsewhere, he has proven to be one of the premier financial journalists in the country. Andrew will continue to write his widely read column for The New York Times, which has an online partnership with CNBC, as well as help oversee DealBook, the online news site he founded.

Andrew Ross Sorkin Joins CNBC as Co-Anchor of ‘Squawk Box’ [TVNewser]

Comments (34)

  1. 1
    Posted by DRK | July 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    rats – I was hoping for Heinz Doofenschmirtz

  2. 2
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM

    “Replacing Carl on Squawk Box is an easy task,”Corrected.

  3. 3
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    So which producer is Quintanilla schtupping?

  4. 4
    Posted by NakedShort | July 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    God dammit. Nothing was better than when Carl would fumble through an earnings release waiting for an adult to step in and discern what was the company actually was saying.

  5. 5
    Posted by Guess | July 15, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Damn. I was hoping they’d give it to Taibbi instead.

  6. 6
    Posted by Tom C | July 15, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    Wow, I haven’t been this excited since I ate oatmeal for breakfast this morning. u00a0

  7. 7
    Posted by ARSorry | July 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM

    1. Steal from Dealbreaker/Bessn2. Whore yourself and your “objectivity” for access to gather book material n3. Jump sinking ship to CNBC/Gaspo’s old spittoon n4.???n5. Profitu00a0

  8. 8
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    u00a0http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/twin-girls-for-carl-quintanilla_b28153

  9. 9
    Posted by Echo998 | July 15, 2011 at 5:45 PM

    Why can’tu00a0 it be that big mouth never shuts the F*** up keirnan???

  10. 10
    Posted by in love with pmco avatar | July 15, 2011 at 5:48 PM

    i would rather see pmco

  11. 11
    Posted by Backdoor Bess | July 15, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    Better than what I wake up to now………nn~ Phil

  12. 12
    Posted by hitthebid | July 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    Sorkin is as much is almost as much of a dickhead as his colleague at the NYT, Ross Douchehat.

  13. 13
    Posted by Brian1284 | July 15, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    The Social Network was au00a0great movie.u00a0

  14. 14
    Posted by It's-a-music-joke | July 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM

    I think ARS peaked when he released “so into you.” He hasn’t had a good album since.nnFormer LEH quant nn

  15. 15
    Posted by M45t | July 15, 2011 at 6:28 PM

    Fucking Bubblevision…

  16. 16
    Posted by Your 3rd grade teacher | July 15, 2011 at 6:29 PM

    Shall I step in and help with sentence construction here?

  17. 17
    Posted by NakedShort | July 15, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    Sure, are you my first or my second 3rd grade teacher?

  18. 18
    Posted by MerchantRefugee | July 15, 2011 at 6:32 PM

    Next up….Carl to replace Matt Lauer on the Today show.u00a0

  19. 19
    Posted by Your 3rd grade teacher | July 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    I’m the one you loved the most.

  20. 20
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    He better get a new chair…. as the one thatu00a0Carl uses is custom made to accommodate the leaf blower.

  21. 21
    Posted by Charlie_gaspo | July 15, 2011 at 6:46 PM

    Yeah, but how many sets of pull-ups can Andrew do? nn

  22. 22
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 7:03 PM

    What about my man Kenny Langone??? u00a0nnThen we can have Client 9 on (he’s got some time on his hands now I hear) and watch the fireworks/greased up wrestling.

  23. 23
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    Maxine? u00a0Is that you?

  24. 24
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 7:05 PM

    Totally. u00a0he makes me feel dumber.

  25. 25
    Posted by Bob | July 15, 2011 at 7:14 PM

    Squawk on the Street is fucking unwatchable right now. Cramer hogs the conversation with his u00a0Mad Money antics and non stop regurgitation of information. Melisa Lee is better as a moderator to keep the gas bags on fast money on track but she can’t anchor a news segment herself. Carl is Joe’s sidekick. They would have been better off switching Becky to SOS and Melisa Lee to SB. Cramer has no place outside of his clown act pushing stocks at highs and downgrading stocks at lows.

  26. 26
    Posted by Bob | July 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM

    I can’t understand how with all the recently laid off bankers and traders f’ing CNBC can’t get someone other than ARS to be Joe’s new sidekick.

  27. 27
    Posted by J Macke | July 15, 2011 at 7:18 PM

    Fuck you Quintanilla, you never took me to the cotillion.

  28. 28
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    That’s very clever of you…particularly seeing “so into you” was released before Andrew Ross was born. But I’m guessing you knew that.

  29. 29
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    and the thieving continues to this day:u00a0http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/a-shake-shack-for-westport/?smid=tw-nytimesdealbook&seid=autonnnice job not mentioning that the GS/SS thing came from DB, asshat.

  30. 30
    Posted by WallStreetFatCat | July 15, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    Looks like I’ll be watching InsideTrack and In The Loop until 9 am from now on.

  31. 31
    Posted by Citicorp Shareholder | July 15, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Just reread the headline on this article. Threw up.

  32. 32
    Posted by Yeah, I Said it | July 15, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    Those who can teach. u00a0Those who can’t trade.

  33. 33
    Posted by AIG Theater Quant | July 15, 2011 at 11:47 PM

    “Cats” was pretty good.

  34. 34
    Posted by JJ | July 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM

    Becky Quick =u00a0 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznu00a0nu00a0nu00a0nu00a0n.

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