Barnako: CNBC staff need agents
Marketwatch media writer Frank Barnako muses that the newly announced Fox Business Channel will come after some of the talent at rival business cable news network CNBC. Barnako wrote, “If you’re working at CNBC and don’t have an agent yet, get one now. The 45th richest man in the world is shopping for talent.” Later, […]
Fox makes it official: Biz network will launch in fourth quarter
News Corp. finally issued a press release Thursday afternoon stating that its Fox Business Channel would hit the airwaves in the last three months of this year. The release stated, “Presently, FOX Business Channel has 30 million subscribers under contract after securing distribution agreements with multiple cable operators, including: Time Warner; Comcast; Charter, and Direct […]
Murdoch: CNBC antagonistic toward business; Fox will be friendly
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, speaking Thursday at the Media Summitt in New York hosted by BusinessWeek, accused business news cable channel CNBC of being unfriendly toward business and added that his Fox Business News network, slated to appear later this year, would take an opposite tack. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, writing for Multichannel News, wrote, “‘We […]
Fox business news channel expected to launch in late 2007
The buzz about the upcoming Fox News business channel is growing again after parent company News Corp. held its quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday and CEO Rupert Murdoch said the launch would occur later in the year. Georg Szalai and Paul J. Gough from the Hollywood Reporter wrote, “But there’s no question that a […]
Friedman: Claman is the anti-Bartiromo
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman profiles CNBC anchor Liz Claman on Wednesday and comes away impressed with her low-key personality and demeanor, which he says is in stark contrast to Maria Bartiromo. Friedman wrote, “By contrast, the unpretentious Claman, who joined CNBC in 1998 and now anchors ‘Morning Call,’ almost seems out of place in […]
The new Money Honey is Becky Quick
The FishbowlNY web site has been running a poll this week to determine whether CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo is still the “Money Honey” of the network. Well, those with enough time on their hands to go to the FishbowlNY web site and vote have spoken, and there’s a new “Money Honey.” It’s Becky Quick, the […]
Note to CNBC: This is the problem
Business news cable network CNBC, already reeling this year for having to defend one of its stars for taking a plane ride on a corporate jet of a company it covers, is giving out awards to executives. The Third Annual CNBC Executive Leadership Awards were given out recently, and they were given to people such […]
Mariagate is now being satirized
Ad Age’s Simon Dumenco has his own take on the controversry surrounding CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, and it includes him now adhering to a new set of ethical standards. Dumenco wrote, “Effective immediately, I’ve decided to adhere to higher-than-ever ethical standards. To wit: My travel policy “Henceforth, I will only accept rides on corporate jets […]
'Reliable Sources' guests discuss Bartiromo
Howard Kurtz, the media reporter for the Washington Post and host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” had a panel of journalists discuss the ethics of CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo accepting a plane ride on the Citigroup corporate jet on Sunday. Here are some of the comments: EMILY ROONEY, HOST, “BEAT THE PRESS,” WGBH: I don’t know. […]
The news, or the Money Honey?
Washington & Lee journalism ethics professor Ed Wasserman writes in the Miami Herald that both Maria Bartiromo and cable business news channel CNBC failed in the recent brouhaha about her taking a plane ride on the Citigroup corporate jet. Wasserman wrote, “The problem here isn’t just that a richly paid news diva is tone deaf […]
