How CNBC has stayed on the air during the pandemic

Mario Schettino

Mario Schettino, director of field operations at CNBC, talks about how the business news channel transitioned to using padcasters, which essentially has kept it on the air.

“Padcaster was actually introduced to us to about a year and a half ago. We tested it out, and it worked pretty good,” said Schettino. “So I had that in the back of my mind.”

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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.