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CNBC’s “Squawk Box” celebrates 20th anniversary

Matt Quayle, the senior executive producer for CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” writes about the show’s 20th anniversary.

Quayle writes, “Doing some quick math — at three hours every weekday (the show actually started as 90 minutes and grew over time, but if you add in specials, extended coverage and weekend programming it all probably averages out) 52 weeks a year for 20 years — the rough stats add up to more than 15,000 hours of live programming.

“When first faced with the thought of what we should do for our 20 year anniversary, I honestly didn’t know where to start. But luckily, before we could worry about how to celebrate, we had a more pressing issue in front of us we knew would dramatically improve the program. So we began our 20th year by moving, literally.

“After 19-plus years in our New Jersey studios at CNBC World Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, (and before that Fort Lee, New Jersey), we took advantage of a great opportunity and made the next logical step in our never-ending evolution by moving across the river to the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

“At the time, it felt like a leap of faith to leave a home we all knew so well. Now, nine months later, it looks like such a no-brainer that it made me wonder what the heck was I worried about and why did it take me so long to get on board? Our access to guests, the excitement and pulse of the Big Apple, and a new street-level live studio have raised our game.”

Read more here.

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.

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