Comments on: CNBC purchases rights to “Nightly Business Report,” saves show

By: Lisa Sheppard

Lisa Sheppard — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:32:26 +0000

you are so correct! That woman can think of more obtuse ways to ask the same nothing question. It’s really surprising none of her interviewees were ever charged with assault!

By: Lisa Sheppard

Lisa Sheppard — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:24:37 +0000

“saved the show”….. FOR WHAT! In little more than a week, they have decimated the program and changed everything but the name, and Silly Susie! They’ve replaced interviews with real entrepreneurs and business and investment leaders with network journalists and tired politicians! Forget about ever again hearing anything but the “party line” on any topic!

By: ChuckG

ChuckG — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:51:41 +0000

The sudden change at NBR reminds me of another PBS business show, Wall Street Week, with Louis Rukeyser. After the change, the program fell apart.

By: cuckG

cuckG — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:47:51 +0000

your are correct about both NBR and CNBC

By: R. Saha

R. Saha — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:51:40 +0000

NBR format should be changed and Susie Gharib must be replaced. Is it necessary for her to follow Buffett whenever she can? She does not ask hard questions of substance. Why does she repeatedly interview Alcoa and CISCO ‘s chairman after quarterly earning announcement? Does not ask why they missed earning estimates? Ridiculous. Susie must go.

By: Lynn Cee

Lynn Cee — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:51:56 +0000

The former darling NBR is gone … apart from Susie Gharib’s returning to her previous employer CNBC
as the co-talking-head. Franklin Templeton would
never have pulled the plug on its high visibility
sponsorship of NBR unless something were wrong
… thus, a self-fulfilling conclusion of “creative destruction” after WPBT (PBS) Miami sold NBR to Mykalai Kontilai (real name: Michael Contile), an
evidently checkered character who flip-sold NBR
to his cronies at the newly formed Atilaya Capital.
The irony in the NBR story just drips. And the fully
disclosed story needs light, pronto, before the
already jaded public loses even more faith in
public broadcasting.

By: indus

indus — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:32:38 +0000

Its a shame Tom Hudson is the one going. Susie is a headline grabber, and contributes little in terms of depth. I suspect the show will be reduced to all noise and no depth just like CNBC’s regular day time show.

By: Lynn Cee

Lynn Cee — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:37:08 +0000

When a private equity firm buys
a financial news show (in a quiet deal**)
aired on PBS … a sinking feeling comes
over longtime loyal viewer-members
as to the future of the show (no pun
intended) and the obvious,
inherent conflicts of interest.
If this NBR news isn’t ironic, what is?
Perhaps the astonishingly banal Lou
Heckler has been thinking about that.
(A few of latest fixture-commentators
were another bad sign that the end
of NBR as we knew it was nigh.)
** Story there.

By: Lynn Cee

Lynn Cee — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:04:14 +0000

NBR and its new parent need to
be brutally honest about why the show
steadily lost viewers after Paul Kangas
departed. Many loyal viewers,
among the 300,000 remaining,
have more than a clue about
that decline.
Looks like Susie Gharib has done
a figure-8, in returning to CNBC.

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