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Cleave Wars: Bloomberg Goes Public With New Strategy To Corner Business TV Market
Nov 13, 2009, 3:12pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Bloomberg TV has been around for years, but it has generally been considered too wonky for all but the wonkiest finance types. In the past year, however, the network has hired new on-air talent (most prominently Margaret Brennan, from...
CNBC Inching Closer And Closer To Dropping The Pretense (And Panties)
Oct 30, 2009, 12:06pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Did the last Frederick's of Hollywood catalogue fail to make it to your doorstep? Does your employer frown upon your surfing for porn on the job? CNBC is here to lend a helping hand, having uploaded some of their favorite...
Who Are The Hottest Ladies In Business Television?
Oct 28, 2009, 1:26pm
Posted by Bess Levin
It's an age-old question that deserves revisiting every now and then. BroBible has complied a list of its 12 favorite business bitches and while we think it's definitely a decent start, with your collective expertise we can really nail this...
BlackRock: Please Make Room For Maria Bartiromo's Entourage
Oct 01, 2009, 2:29pm
Posted by Bess Levin
To: BlackRock Employees Subject: CNBC Filming Live Today at 40 East 52nd Street To mark the 10th anniversary of BlackRock's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, CNBC will broadcast a special edition of its "Closing Bell" program...
Don Imus Would Like To Know How Long It's Going To Take Charlie Gasparino "To Grow A Pair"
Oct 01, 2009, 2:11pm
Posted by Bess Levin
You might not have known this but Charlie Gasparino has a book called "The Sell-Out" coming out in November. Since CNBC hasn't let him plug it on air, Chaz has been having to go through other channels to promote the...
Leave Lenny Ah-lone!
Aug 10, 2009, 11:55am
Posted by Equity Private
Don't get us wrong. We know where our bread is buttered. But, that said, there seems to be a lot of piling on going on. For instance: George Griffith of the trustee's office said Dykstra signed a "real property questionnaire...
Take The Plunge
Aug 06, 2009, 4:41pm
Posted by Equity Private
Profiling Abby Joseph "The Oracle" Cohen's fall out of the financial cheerleading tree, CNBC's JeeYeon Park managed to hit (and break) every metaphoric branch on the way down. Between the two of them, no rhetorical equity booster is left unbowed,...
Full Faith And Credit Ratings
Aug 05, 2009, 2:37pm
Posted by Equity Private
How excited are you by the prospect that the Treasury might regulate credit ratings? Us either. And, as it happens, even the Treasury isn't so keen on the idea. To wit: The Obama administration is resisting calls to get involved...
Barry Ritholtz: How To Fix CNBC
Jun 08, 2009, 12:56pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Turn it off. Kidding, though that'd probably work. Barry Ritholtz was recently asked what he'd do to fix "financial television." As there seems to be one network in particular need of help, he's addressed what the good people over in...
Restricted Crock
Mar 18, 2009, 11:43am
Posted by Equity Private
CNBC is winding itself up into a frenzy preparing for Liddy's testimony (they aren't that excited yet, they've only got a 4-box up so far) and they seem to have come to the consensus that restricted stock, not cash, is...
Hopelessly Conflicted
Mar 04, 2009, 10:49am
Posted by Equity Private
We know we aren't the only ones who enjoy watching the folks at CNBC agonize over their evaporating "performance aligned long-term compensation." Given where GE stock is headed after the ix-nay on the ividend-day (presently down about 9% 10% after...
New CNBC Broadcast Book Guideline: When Showing Tim, Show Industrials
Feb 10, 2009, 3:03pm
Posted by Equity Private
Once they find a correlation, they are about as likely to let go as a pitbull clamping down on a small child....
The Magic Of Television
Feb 06, 2009, 12:23pm
Posted by Equity Private
Normally, this wouldn't bother me. Perhaps it is because it is Friday. Perhaps it is because I had to watch the Ken Lewis interview. Perhaps it is the chemical burns I have after shaking hands with Robert Rubin the other...
First, Open Source Modeling, Now, Open Source Fiscal Policy?
Oct 11, 2008, 3:56pm
Posted by Equity Private
We are huge fans of William Ackman (call us, please?) and Pershing Square Capital. So, it will be no surprise to you that we loved the panache of his "open source modeling" move to make his short-case for MBIA. So,...
Question
Jul 30, 2008, 9:08am
Posted by Bess Levin
The commercials for used catheters on CNBC-- why?...
FoxBusiness To Close In On CNBC
Jul 29, 2008, 3:10pm
Posted by Bess Levin
In a mere 69 years. As the logical bubble bursting follow-up to the Washington Post's report that FBN averaged 8,000 viewers during daytime programming and 20,000 viewers in primetime for July, up from 6,000 and 15,000 at the start of...
The Mystery of The Missing Mammaries
Jul 29, 2008, 12:35pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Stop what you're doing and give me your full attention because we've got a scandal bigger than Merrill on our hands. Here is the shit, feel free, nay encouraged, nay obligated to disseminate because that's how super serious it is:...
Congratulations, Erin Burnett!
Jul 24, 2008, 10:57am
Posted by Bess Levin
The CNBC star has been named to the top of TelevisionWeek's Hot List for 2008. Now, please proceed with the inevitable debate over who is "really" the hottest over at Englewood Cliffs (starts with a 'M,' ends with a...
Ken Langone Hates The New York Times
Jul 22, 2008, 10:26am
Posted by John Carney
Legendary Wall Streeter Ken Langone, who once attempted to purchase the New York Stock Exchange, hurled insults at the New York Times this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box. He was describing an op-ed he's been working on for the Wall...
The Irrelevancy Of Our Lame Duck President
Jul 15, 2008, 10:58am
Posted by John Carney
It's hard to think of a starker demonstration of the irrelevancy of George Bush than the split screen running now on CNBC. On the right, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke answers lawmakers' questions on Capital Hill, warning everyone that economic growth...
