Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC's Jim Cramer is irreplaceable

Sheldon Liber writes on BloggingStocks.com about the difficulty that CNBC will have in replacing “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer when he decides to retire.

Liber wrote, “This is not an obituary for his CNBC show. Only the recognition that all things must end and Cramer brings it up all too often.

“He could never do four decades like Louis Rukeyser, who was America’s most popular economic commentator. This when Cramer was just opening his eyes and knew nothing of the world of finance.”

Later, he concluded, “Could Jim Rome co-host Mad Money? Could Warren Buffett contribute for a point-counter-point segment? Does the quick witted, sharp tongued perma-bear Alan Abelson of Barron’s (subscription required) have what it takes to do the show? I think not. When Cramer trades it in for something else it will be over.”

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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.