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Maria Bartiromo Departing CNBC For Fox Business

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Farewell Mareeaah. The Money Honey who epitomized CNBC in its high flying (pardon the pun) years when it was actually a source of useful information, has just marked the nadir of the TV station which in the past five years rebranded itself stock market propaganda central, and whose viewership plunged appropriately to a 20 year low as we recently reported.  As Drudge reports, Bartiromo whose contact is up, is moving to Fox Business.

From Drudge:

DRUDGE has learned that Maria Bartiromo is jumping to FOX BUSINESS NETWORK with an announcement expected sometime soon. Sources close to the situation say there have been ongoing conversations throughout the Fall. The new deal calls for Bartiromo to anchor a daily market hours program on FOX BUSINESS. Insiders say there will be a role on FOXNEWS as well... DEVELOPING...

To be sure, this is hardly a surprise. News of her imminent contract expiration came a few months ago...

CNBC’s No. 1 star, Maria “Money Honey” Bartiromo, with her hefty five-year contract set to expire late this year, is in play and is shopping herself around to rival networks, sources familiar with the situation tell The Post.

 

Bartiromo, 45, whose hustle and knack for landing exclusive interviews with newsmakers hasn’t been able to stem the steady decline in ratings for CNBC overall and her show in particular, is taking advantage of an open “negotiating window” and has talked to Fox Business Network and CNN, among others, sources said.

 

The business TV dynamo reached out and hired mega-talent agency CAA earlier this year. She is working with the agency’s boss, Richard Lovett, considered one of the top TV and Hollywood agents, and Olivia Metzger, a former CNBC talent scout, who heads CAA’s Big Apple office.

 

The Brooklyn-born Bartiromo famously was the first woman to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. She has been with CNBC since 1993 and is said to earn between $2 million and $3 million a year.

 

A spokeswoman for FBN said: “There are no serious discussions going on.” CNN had no comment. A spokesman for CNBC said: “She is under contract with CNBC.”

 

Reached Friday as she was flying back from Lake Tahoe, where she reported from the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament, Bartiromo, in an email, told The Post: “I don’t have any comment on anything right now.”

 

The intrepid brunette referred further questions to CAA.

... And it appears CNBC decided not to renew. As for FBN, the discussions appear to have been serious.

Our only question: is that other symbol of the old school CNBC, Joe Kernen, set to follow her through the exit door?

 

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Mon, 11/18/2013 - 19:58 | 4167491 BigSpruce
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Oh yeah as if that old washed up gold digging hag is going to make me tune in to Faux news. What a fuckin joke.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 19:58 | 4167495 hairball48
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Bartiromo & Cavuto = Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:00 | 4167499 WilliamJGreene
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Things will not improve at CNBC until Joe Kernen is history. I have felt for years he was a drag on viewership. He has the attitude and many of the characteristics of what is wrong with Wall Street in general. I have to think at this point that CNBC is bringing in Sara Eisen to replace Maria who announced her own departure from Bloomberg sometime last Thursday. She has not been seen on Bloomberg since her announcement.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:05 | 4167523 Navymugsy
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Sara Eisen is all that is (was) wrong with Blooberg this last year. They fire the intelligent reporters and bring in the Bimbos. If there weren't cue cards, little Miss Sara wouldn't have a job. Hope she brings a life jacket to CNBC as she'll need it soon.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:01 | 4167505 surf0766
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I expect CNBC to give "SHOUTING" Al Sharpten a new show called, "If my hair is up , stocks are too".

 

What a completely discredited communist / progressive/ socialist POS network.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:01 | 4167506 Atomizer
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CNBC Maria Bartiromo  as remembered.

Get yourself on track. Look at who you were back then, blaming age doesn’t count.

 

Despite picking on you, I truly want you to excel . You’re at the 7th ending of your career in journalism. Make up for all the strike-outs & base walks cited on CNBC. Again, best wishes and give them hell on FOX.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:04 | 4167515 MrBoompi
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I guess the position of Jamie Dimon's Official Ball Licker was already taken.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:05 | 4167522 orangegeek
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Finance media doesn't do much for an investor - it's story telling.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:05 | 4167525 sunnyside
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Kelly Evans..........come on down.  You're the next contestant on CNBC's "Let's Blow Jamie Dimond"

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:06 | 4167526 BullyBearish
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Another reason not to watch fox business...remember the douche dennis kneale?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:10 | 4167545 prmths2
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I can't read about these infotainment channels anymore without thinking about Paddy Chayefsky's "Network."

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:23 | 4167551 Youri Carma
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We never Forget you Maria Bartiromomo, how you so eloquently and elegantly try to cover up massive fraud. Thank you for that.

JP MORGAN SEPT-OCT 2013 SPECIAL FROM 'THE DAILY FRAUD' DEDICATED TO MARIA  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXf9GmQln4

THE DAILY FRAUD http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=239077.msg1443924#msg14439...

The JP Morgan apologists of CNBC http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/09/29/the-jp-morgan-apologist...

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:12 | 4167553 mark mchugh
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If Liz Claman couldn't make Fox Business News fly, there's no way Maria B will.

CNBC should be on the phone with Liz right now.

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:28 | 4167811 Blano
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I don't watch FBC, is Liz not on there anymore?  I loved her.  What a rack.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:54 | 4169173 mark mchugh
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I think so.  I don't watch Fox either.  But I too loved Liz.  In addition to be very easy on the eyes, I thought she was smart and had a lovely voice.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:13 | 4167555 pashley1411
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In my dreams, there is a Maria, on the couch in a white negligee, and, leaning in, she whispers into my ear, "everything I've said on camera the last 5 years is a lie."

Sigh, will probably never happen.    I mean those words.  

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:17 | 4167568 The Alarmist
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Kind of the CNBC/FBC/FoxNews version of "That's what I go to School 4," eh?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:13 | 4167556 are we there yet
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Cnbc is such slanted propoganda that 'naked news' has more news value.

http://www.nakednews.com/

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:34 | 4167626 QQQBall
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Market topper?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:40 | 4167650 mendolover
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She'll look like a guy in drag compared to the average Fox babe.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:44 | 4167666 Papasmurf
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It's a sure sign of a top when folks start playing musical chairs. 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:46 | 4167667 ToNYC
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She jumped when she saw her pay shrink and will bounce off the side of a cliff; Fox is breaking her fall for a few torturous months when she meets her real worth in the eyes of her new co-workers.

"Oh, The New York Times!"

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:55 | 4167695 SillySalesmanQu...
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Thank God that I'll never have to hear her at 4:00 daily on CNBS, "it's closing time, do you know where your money is?" She is a pefect fit at Faux Business.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:00 | 4167703 ToNYC
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When Joe K. is on, I watch old foreign movies to clear my palate.

h/t  Criterion Collection / Netflix DVDs.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:59 | 4167709 RaceToTheBottom
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She should have switched to Russian TV where she could flop those mammary glands for the masses...

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:20 | 4167790 22winmag
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I'm waiting for her to do porn... preferrably non-speaking roles.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 20:59 | 4167726 Izznogood
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The women at Bloomberg are smarter and better looking

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:32 | 4167823 Dadburnitpa
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Whatever.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:42 | 4167848 texas sandman
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As they say, the bigger the mammaries, the dumber the broad......you're so busy ogling the twins, who hears a thing the woman has to say....and more importantly,  who cares?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 22:01 | 4167947 lakecity55
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I just like to watch her tits.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 22:53 | 4168174 yogibear
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Their sagging just like CNBC's ratings.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 04:59 | 4168788 lakecity55
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At my age I won't complain.

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 07:57 | 4168905 bobert727
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One of these young new honeys on CNBC or Fox business needs to have a "wardrobe malfunction".  Then we will really see the ratings soar!!

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 22:03 | 4167957 Downtoolong
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Where are all the Wall Street gurus when you need them, to tell us how to short Maria’s career?

I’m betting it ends with her pitching reverse mortgages on a 30 minute paid advertising slot after the Late Show. 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 10:18 | 4169277 ToNYC
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Maria hosting the SkyBridge self-congratulation show for financial bravery defending big bankers and the double-counters AUM by curators piggy-backing on the elusive Alpha Morphetropes.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 22:08 | 4167976 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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I'm starting to get the idea that only audience left watching CNBC is zerohedge subscribers who only watch it to complain how bad it is at this point.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 23:00 | 4168201 Bloody Chiclitz
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I love infotainment.  Like 0hedge, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox,CNN The Guardian, Telegraph, BBC, NPR, Drudge. It's way more fixed than horse racing. So what, it's still show business.

Usually it's neither informative or entertaining.

I love it anyway.

Every once and awhile someone says something illuminating. It's always shocking. It's very rare which is one of the reasons it so shocking.

Once in a while I even watch that manic jackass Cramer.  When he is on a full crank high, spitting all over the other media weenies it is entertaining as hell. I get the corruption and the agenda driven guest list etc. I don't care.

Please pass the infotainment. 

Maria B and Megan Kelly vs Natasha Curry and Gloria Borger in a no hands allowed banana and coolwhip eating contest I'm there. I'll down load it.

24 Hrs a day neither entertainment or information. Gimmie another helping!

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 09:56 | 4169179 Izznogood
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You forgot to include The Economist ...

(Disclaimer: Irony may occur)

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 23:02 | 4168206 f16hoser
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There goes FOX News viewership. Sure she isn't a plant to wreck FOX Business? Hell, give her a dancing-pole and let her dance naked! That's all she's good for.

 

 

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 23:35 | 4168302 dark pools of soros
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It would be epic if she goes bankrupt

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 01:35 | 4168598 Notarocketscientist
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World Association Game:

fat - sloppy - greasy - hairy

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 02:08 | 4168603 mrmister
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Maria's little speech on Integrity-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFCCKdeOpC8

When the dollar crashes it will be her on tv saying she was sorry for misleading the little people. Then she will try to escape on a yacht.

 

 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 02:20 | 4168665 Notarocketscientist
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"Bartiromo, 45, whose hustle and knack for landing exclusive interviews with newsmakers"

Bartiromo 45, whose knack for ball and ass licking married CEO's in exchange for ACCESS.......

 

Bartiromo cited in ex-Citigroup CFO’s divorce

http://pagesix.com/2013/10/02/bartiromo-cited-in-divorce/

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 05:26 | 4168802 ebworthen
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Ugly stuff, divorce.

So he bumped the other Citi execs so he and Maria were the only passengers on the way home from Asia?

Hmm...doesn't sound appropriate to me; either for business or a marriage.

Now you know why her nick-name is Maria "G6" Bartiromo (though in 2007 it was probably a G5 or G4).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY

Thu, 11/21/2013 - 22:24 | 4179787 Herkimer Jerkimer
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Watching her just the other day, she's lookin' rid 'ard and pud away wet…

 

Oh! If only someone could do a really good caricature of her! That nose! Those poor ol' botoxed lips! And those eyes, caked up with all that crap! It'd be priceless!

I couldn't imagine what she'd look like sans war-paint?!?

Coyote ugly…

 

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