Categories: OLD Media Moves

Kernen is CNBC's stud

Michele Greppi of TVWeek writes that CNBC anchor Joe Kernen is respected by new rival Fox Business Network head Roger Ailes and considered one of its selling points in the upcoming competition.

Greppi wrote, “Rather than fret that Mr. Kernen, the breezy ‘Squawk Box’ co-anchor occasionally referred to as ‘the Kahuna’ and ‘the Hair,’ might be asked to be ‘the stud’ for someone else, CNBC has locked him up early for another five years.

“Mr. Kernenâ€™s longtime agent, IMG Senior Corporate VP Sandy Montag, makes it sound very simple. ‘Joe has been part of the NBC family for a long time, has great relationships from the top on down, and just felt that this was the best place to continue his broadcasting career. Heâ€™s thrilled that we worked out a great new deal.’

“Mr. Kernen, who was a stockbroker for 10 years before making the move to TV, makes it sound even simpler in a phone conversation that sometimes wandered into raucous (and off-the-record) territory.”

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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.