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The CNBC Appreciation Thread
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I decided to set up a thread for CNBC watchers 
to talk about the channel and news, favourite shows/news anchors etc.
Have fun
to talk about the channel and news, favourite shows/news anchors etc.Have fun
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As a channel its ok but given like the rest of the world it missed the looming credit crunch I tend not to take what they say to seriously
I rarely watch ABC News as I'm normally in bed when it's on and I've gone off CBS but I agree NBC Nightly News is good. It's often hard to take the analysis the economists (or stiffs I call them) seriously. I always preferred CNBC to Bloomberg though, don't know why.
I thinks its faster passed and it you get the Dow tanking they go crazy such as when the TARP bill failed the first time through congress. Maybe you just get hypnotised by the ticker.
I often do, the ticker on CNBC's Asian shows late at night often sends me to sleep and I can only watch those shows for a few minutes before I head upstairs to the computer or to go to bed. I could spot a CNBC ticker on a TV screen for miles
You're rumored to watch CNBC occasionally
I keep meaning to catch up with ' The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' but can never find out who is on. Where do you look for detailed CNBC listings?
I'm 20 and I'm a business student so find CNBC useful in that sense, but also 'cause I ind it more interesting than some of the other rubbish on TV these days.
Here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/25098361/
Or Google Sky TV listings, look for the news section and then CNBC. Hope this helps
Can't really think right now
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838609
The only thing I would like to see is more MSNBC re-broadcast from America during the weekends, rather than creaky week old golf highlights and shows you've seen before on CNBC Life.
You get used to the ticker after a while
Fox News or CNBC? I'm just back from CNBC watching now :cool: I was watching US Closing Bell.
In the days of NBC Europe Channel and when that closed in the UK and some of its programming got moved to CNBC at the weekends in 1998, there was a few MSNBC programmes on there.
Which shows were they? We didn't get cable til 2002 and I never heard of CNBC until 2005. It would be cool for CNBC to show MSNBC again though.
I used to watch lots of NBC Europe and before that when it was NBC Super Channel.
ITN used to provide a very good 8pm bulletin on NBC Super Channel, presented by Katie Haslam.
Interesting. I never saw that channel but I've heard a lot about it
I have vivid memories of Maria, and of CNBC, on 9/11. I switched it on at about 1:50pm on 11th September 2001 to try and find out why the FTSE had just started to drop (luckily exiting a 'long' trade as a precaution).
Moments later they switched to a live shot of a smoking Twin Tower and nobody knew what the hell was going on. As soon as the 2nd tower was hit, everyone knew what was going on, in an instant, it was like a veil being lifted. And the markets went into panic stricken freefall. Whooosh!!! I could have made a fortune short selling that day but I didn't have the heart to do it, I just sat there watching the TV coverage. It just didn't seem right to trade on it - we were looking at the possibility of anything upto 20,000 deaths for a time.
My vivid memory of Maria occurred a couple of hours later, not long after the towers had collapsed. She was the CNBC's Wall Street 'NYSE trading floor' reporter then and the building had been evacuated. But there was soon so much dust that they thought it was safer inside - people were choking in the dust. CNBC switched back to their live NYSE camera for the always impeccably presented Maria to give a report - she looked shocked, and was completely covered from head to foot (including her face and hands) in that awful dark grey dust and muck that filled the air outside. I will remember that day - and that shocking image of Maria - for the rest of my life. Not to mention the studio presenters who were struggling to keep their composure all afternoon.
Good story. What makes it harder is that her birthday's on September 11. Must have been a hard day for her. She's still anchoring Closing Bell, I saw her on it tonight. She's one of my favourite CNBC anchors 'cause she always seems to know what she's talking about and does good interviews.
I didn't realise that. After all this time, I never knew it! No wonder Maria was shell-shocked, and oh how the memory of those terrible events must come flooding back to her on every birthday since.
I liked her then (before 9/11) and of course, that was reinforced by her determination to continue come what may, on that awful day. She's a legend in her own lifetime.