Friedman: Cramer is better in print
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman, whose column last year about “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer sparked a bevy of reader e-mails, returns again to Cramer on Friday and notes that his writing in New York magazine is much more palatable. Friedman wrote, “I much prefer Cramer’s Dr. Jekyll incarnation, as the restrained, informative author of […]
CNBC moves "Fast Money" to five days a week
“Fast Money,” the show on business news channel CNBC that features Dylan Ratigan and four Wall Street traders, will now air five days a week instead of its current once-a-week schedule. The show will be based at NASDAQ’s MarketSite studio in Times Square. Ratigan and the traders rang the bell to begin trading at the […]
CNBC to look ahead at '07 on Tuesday
With the daily business newspapers deciding what it would do on Tuesday due to the closing of the stock markets to honor the death of former president Gerald Ford, CNBC says it will have seven hours of live programming taking a look at 2007. The release stated, “Beginning at 9 AM ET, each hour of […]
Bloomberg columnist has kind words for Cramer
Bloomberg News columnist Susan Antilla writes admiringly about “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer because he admits the mistakes he’s made on his show in his new book. Antilla wrote, “Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ television show, also knows how to say when he’s wrong. And that’s one reason I won’t say that […]
"Must-see" biz journalism TV
Dave Kansas, the current president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Money & Investing editor of The Wall Street Journal, gave what I will politely call an “amusing” interview to Lindsay Campbell on Wallstrip.com about life as a business journalist. To watch the video, go here. If you don’t have […]
Cavuto launching radio report
In the wake of the announcement this week that Jim Cramer would end his radio show, Fox News’ Neil Cavuto will start his own radio report beginning in January, according to MediaWeek. Katy Bachman wrote that Cavuto “will begin anchoring The Cavuto Money Report for Fox News Radio beginning Jan. 15, the company announced Thursday. […]
Cramer to focus on TheStreet.com multimedia
The decision to end Jim Cramer’s radio show means that he will focus more on producing video and multimedia for TheStreet.com, the company that he founded announced Wednesday. In a brief in the Newark Star-Ledger, Greg Saitz wrote, “TheStreet.com announced yesterday the host of CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ will ‘reallocate his time to focus on TheStreet.com […]
Is Jim Cramer headed to CNBC.com?
MarketWatch columnist Frank Barnako muses on his blog that Jim Cramer will be used by CNBC to build traffic on its new web site when it launches next week in the wake of his radio show going away. Barnako wrote, “Makes sense to me after learning this morning that the Booyah-meister is ending his ‘Mad […]
Fine: The money is there for another biz channel
BusinessWeek media writer Jon Fine writes on his blog that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has been bullish about the Fox Business News channel that is expected to launch next year for several years despite the fact that Roger Ailes, the executive who once ran CNBC and would be in charge of the channel, has […]
Fox Business Channel to debut in mid-2007
Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch spoke with Multichannel News editor of digital news Steve Donohue and news editor Mike Reynolds last week about a wide range of topics, including the impending rollout of the new Fox Business Channel, slated for 2007. What’s below is an excerpt from the […]
