CNBC’s Quintanilla on being spun off

CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla spoke with Oliver Darcy of Status about covering CEOs and how he feels about the network being spun off into a new company.

Here is an excerpt:

I can’t let you go without asking about SpinCo. What do you think the future is for the new company? In the end, will most of the cable assets eventually merge into one super company to achieve the scale necessary to compete?
The “super company” thing is a great parlor game. I don’t know. I’m personally psyched because, selfishly, the CNBC brand gets more “juice,” more freedom to refine the brand and manage our own destiny. I’ll miss 30 Rock, though. I spent years as an NBC correspondent working for “Today” and “Nightly News” and going to work in that building never got old.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.