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CNBC moving “SquawkBox” set to midtown Manhattan

CNBC’s morning show “SquawkBox” is moving from the business news network’s New Jersey headquarters to a set in midtown Manhattan.

NewscastStudio.com writes, “The studio, located across the street for Radio City Music Hall in the former SNY studio in Rockefeller Plaza, features a large anchor desk that largely matches the design of the network’s main studio back in Englewood Cliffs. The desk is fronted with two flat panel monitors and includes internal lighting and a shiny black top.

“Wood-toned accents are featured between the studio’s windows and a teal-blue toned column is accented with a frosted CNBC logo.

“The network introduced new graphics in October.

“‘Squawk Box,’ one of CNBC’s morning offerings, previously originated from the network’s headquarters from the same studio the debuted with the opening of the facility in 2003, though it underwent extensive changes over the years.

Read more here. The new set will start Wednesday, Jan. 7.

CNBC’s “Fast Money” show is also getting a new set at NASDAQ on Monday.

The studio, located across the street for Radio City Music Hall in the former SNY studio in Rockefeller Plaza, features a large anchor desk that largely matches the design of the network’s main studio back in Englewood Cliffs. The desk is fronted with two flat panel monitors and includes internal lighting and a shiny black top.

Wood-toned accents are featured between the studio’s windows and a teal-blue toned column is accented with a frosted CNBC logo.

The network introduced new graphics in October.

“Squawk Box,” one of CNBC’s morning offerings, previously originated from the network’s headquarters from the same studio the debuted with the opening of the facility in 2003, though it underwent extensive changes over the years.

– See more at: http://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/01/03/cnbc-to-debut-new-streetside-studio/#sthash.y3nrI9bt.dpuf

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.