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With Total Viewers Sliding To 7 Year Lows, Is CNBC Fading Into Obscurity?
In the past 24 hours, some readers have been surprised to learn that as Jeff Reeves of InvestorPlace states, total Q2 CNBC viewership as calculated by Nielsen, has tumbled to to the lowest it has been since Q3 2005. This merely confirms that the trendline in our periodic observations of CNBC traffic was more than merely seasonal or VIX-related: it has been one long secular decline, peaking in the quarter of Lehman's demise and down hill ever since.
Reeves focuses on some specifics:
- Squawk Box (6-9 a.m.) is supposed to prime traders before the bell. The show posted its lowest rated its time block since Q4 2006.
- The Closing Bell (3-5 p.m.) is supposed to wrap up the day’s action. The slot posted its fifth-lowest rating in total viewers and second-lowest ratings in the key 25-54 demographic since 1997.
- Fast Money (5-6 p.m.) is focused almost specifically on swing trading stocks. That time slot showed the lowest rating for the 25-54 demo since 1997 — and lowest in total viewers since Fast Money launched in 2006.
Yet none of the above compares to the Nielsen-sourced data Zero Hedge compiled showing CNBC viewerships since the beginning of 2004.
The chart speaks thousands of words about the shrinking viewer engagement with either CNBC the financial news station, or CNBC the financial news station.
What the clearly chart shows is that despite occasional risk flaring episodes, and a general preponderance of either 'good news' or 'bad news' regimes, the prevailing trendline is one of anti-Gartman proportions: from top left to bottom right.
Reeves attempts to give some explanations of his own explaining this troubling for Comcast trend:
It must be noted that it’s not their fault the market is miserable, and bad ratings don’t necessarily reflect bad shows. After all, we don’t blame builders like Pulte or Lennar for causing the housing crisis with poorly made homes.
It’s also worth noting that many cable networks are experiencing a viewership drain as many younger folks take their eyeballs to the Internet — and CNBC is hardly ignoring the move to online content. Its website gets some 8 million unique visitors every month, and a shrewd partnership with Yahoo! is teaming up the megasite Yahoo Finance with CNBC to tap into an even more massive chunk of the financial media audience.
But for whatever reason, investors are tuning out CNBC on their TV sets. That’s further proof that the market is jaded, that volume will remain low in the summer and that most investors are scared or nervous about what to do next.
Zero Hedge being Zero Hedge will add one more: perhaps CNBC's viewers have gotten tired of getting just one side of the newsflow: the always rosy, and over the past 5 years, always wrong one.
Which also explains the growth of alternative financial media venues: those unconstrained in the type of data they can report on and analyze. More importantly: those unconstrained by what producers scream in their earpiece. In retrospect, they have much to be grateful to CNBC for- if for whatever reason the financial channel was not hemorrhaging eyeballs, there would be no new captive audience to, well, capture.
Finally, whatever the reason for the endless bleed in CNBC viewership one thing we can be sure of: the advertisers - that lifeblood of every media outlet - are certainly not happy.
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I bootleg my cable and still feel raped when I watch that horrible obscenity of a channel.
DIE! DIE! DIE!
You will have lots of friends here.
whooops tripple post, my bad
tripple ripple at that
Is your avatar pic a guy trying to go thermonuclear on his own ass or someone tryin to buttsmuggle an oil drum? Looks painful..
What a great laugh that gave me.
Thanks.
What the hell is that avatar of yours?
Kinda looks like a goatsee and the biggest vibe I've ever seen.
Its Kid from Kid and Play with his head up his ass?
Anybody old enough to remember FNN, bought out
by CNBC to silence them in the early 90s.
Those guys taught me to trade, but most of all,
taught me how to laugh at and FADE the silly things
that were said...
and not to fight the Fed...
Some still at CNBC, Griffith, but lost their mojo a generation
ago...
G
Stay liquid my friends...
When the alternative media (i.e. bloggers) went from conspiracy nuts to being correct......the jig was up.
The stange thing is.....there is so much monumental fraud and illegal financial crap going on, there should be 100 Bob Woodwards out there making their names and winning Pulitzers reporting it and hounding the scoundrels. Instead, the MSM is a Wall Street lapdog, particularly CNBC.
Good riddance, CNBC. We hardly knew ya. Long live the web!
The only people who watch CNBC are basement dwelling daytraders, goes for thier website too. It is hilarious to read the stock tweets.
"Stock bouncing nice off $28.76 resistance, all in at $32 to ride the breakout wave to $47."
Really? Any fundamental analysis to back that up or just pulling figures out of your ass. The problem with Cramer is that he is such a stooge, he makes people believe anyone can analyze stocks.
Kind of like Jerry Springer, justifying white trash since 1991. Cramer, justifying the underwear clad Mad Money paper trader since 2005.
I like when Cramer talks to a Ceo and licks his balls while doing it. Then he offers advice to the CEO as if this worthless piece of shit has ever run anything
I miss Louis Rukeyser on PBS. Lotta money made from watching the original Wall Street Week and he was entertaining as well.
I used to enjoy watching him. When I first got into the business his show was one of the highlights of the week.
automato wrote"..I miss Louis Rukeyser on PBS..."
+100
That man inspired me to learn as much as I could about whats going on with the economy. Loved the interviews.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/cnn-ratings-quarter-two-worst-in-21-years.html
CNN posts worst quarter in 21 years.
I hope Kudlow chokes on a bowl full of dicks. Someone needs to put that dinosaur into the ground with the rest of the Reaganites. Trickle down this!
Here is one more that can't watch it. That shit headed fast babbling yankee Cramer makes me vomit!!
Here is one more that can't watch it. That shit headed fast babbling yankee Cramer makes me vomit!!
And the next sign of the apocalypse is when propaganda passes for news. Check.
I could turn it around in a month.
"Farmers Arise" 4am6am. agit-prop farm reporting, rumors of Jap poisining cali rice crops, possible need for return to camps, similar stories. Each day a diff farm zome under some kind of attack. Must-watch.
The Roundhouse -- 7am-noon. This is it. The big show. And boy does it live up to it's name: it takes you around all the players, not just the investors, not just the markets, but welll.... it's a Roundhouse:
"Vatican View" - papal nuncio offers commentay on today's hot trades, markets of concern;
"Jessie's World" -- find a girl named Jessie, make her tart and brash, either PETA or anti-vaccine type. Make her defend tanning salons, etc. Retail stocks focus, interviews with actress/designers, etc.
"The Gridnhouse" - over the top commentary. Whatever.
"Kinkaid's Korner" - Find a guy named Kinkaid to wear glasses and a serious tie and have him do some analysis. Whatever. He also has to talk a lot about the Mets.
Put me in man, overnight, im serious.
(only Lauren Lyster can save them now -after a little speech therapy)
Lyster speaks my language......
Good riddance to them.
Hopefully all their stupid announcers'll be laid off & have to go get real jobs. I'd love to see some of their fascist shills working @ the local mall.
if they have to get "real jobs" and do their own shopping and fill their own gas tanks, do you think they will notice the real inflation rate?
Squicky working at Target would be a treat and Cramer as a Walmart greeter
Our Walmarts have literally eliminated Greeter Jobs to save money.
Maybe their only viewers are High Frequency Trading programs?
this one is way too easy.....i am not taking the bait
Why don't they do a show which tells us which algos will be running the next day? I'm sure letting us in on the manipulation would be pretty popular!
During the days of Lose Fast Money, I always wondered if we lifted up Guy Adami's pony tail.. could he shit from the back of his head.
CNBS? Isn't that the all Obama all the time pep-rally channel?
Nope. And congratulations, you are obviously not a regular viewer. See my comment above about the Kudlow Kool-aid Hour.
Well, you guys have said it all. I turned the idiot channel off 2 years ago. Every once in a while I click on for 10 minutes to see if anything is changed. Cramer, LiesMan, why oh why does Santelli stay there. I doubt he needs the extra check. And Ms. Giick tells it like it is. But it is not just cnbc all. MSM is losing viewers all the time. Brian, Diane, even that ridiculous Good Morning America with Matt is as boring as hell. Why watch TV when you can get the news in real time and with sites like this one, get the truth and different opinions. Most young people never watch TV news. In fact, more and more are just disconnecting Dish, Direct TV, Comcast and Charter. Paying 70 bucks a month.....for What!
Choking oN a Bag of Cocks
I haven't watched CNBS in, oh, two years or so now.
No need to watch it, when I have ZeroHedge and TickerForum, although the latter has really fallen apart of late.
Wow. Speaking of falling apart as of late - the Philadelphia Phillies appear to be on their way to a three-game sweep of my baffling Bucs (Pittsburgh Pirates for you non-baseball fans), who are attempting to post their 20th-consecutive losing season.
Back-to-back jacks for the Phils. My my.
Man, baseball is almost as fun to watch as is the global financial meltdown. Almost, I said.
I turn it on every now and then, but I can't stomache the talking idiots. It's like nails on a chalkboard when the speak. I don't think it's ever on for more than 5 minutes.
Oh and CNN is at 30 year lows. All their shows have less viewers. And they started cable. The writing is on the wall. TV is soon to be just a side show. Cannot stand the commercials, so I wait a season and watch good shows on Netflix, without one stupid asshole telling me I need dentures. LOL
This can only be good news!
More and more people are opening their eyes, they realize that sitting in front of the tube is letting the MSM lies wash over them.
There is an awakening taking place, next we need to build the gallows.
I saw this ZH headline and thought it said "CNBC" viewers slide to 7, which of course would be 75% more viewers than they normally have on any given day.
CNBC talking head shills (like Maria B.) are way too full of themselves to report or ask relevant questions. ZH should have it's own tv show opposite CNBC and Bloomberg.
pretty bad, CNBC has too few viewers vs the cranky old hippie drug addict Don Imus....very funny
Top Ten Fixes for CNBC......................
10. Mandy Drury does every show topless - and offers to blow a lucky viewer by lottery once a month - on the air live - in the new segment "Randy Mandy's Lady Lumps and Throats"
9. Becky Quick and Julia Boorstein muff-dive each other every Friday on "SquawkCooze".
8. Publically execute Mark Liesman - on air. A lucky viewer draws to fire up 'ol Sparky.
7. Bill Griffiths and Andrew Ross Sorkin get the shit beat out of them - on the air - in the new segment "Asshats and Shorts" - chosen by lottey for lucky viewers - weekly.
6. Jim Cramer has to keep score on his stock picks, and if he fails to top 5% per month - a lucky viewer - by lottery - gets to kick him in the balls - on the air - if that lucky viewer can find Cramer's balls - in the new segment "KicklowCramer"
5. Rick Santelli gets his own two hour segment: "What TRADERS think - Live from the CBOE - and forget the other Bullshit".
4. Margaret Brennan returns in the new segment "Cleavage Call".
3. Michelle Caruso Cabrera gets fucked by total strangers on the new segment "Sidewalk Straddle"
2. Tone-Loc stars in the new segment "Street Ebonic Talk"
1. New segment: BANKER EXECUTION OF THE WEEK
I do so much want to see Liesman get the shit beat out of him by a deranged senior who has no interest income.
I really want to see that punk Sorkin get beat up by a woman
MCC getting banged by random strangers is probably more like a reality show, she just needs the camera on
And Cramer dying on air at the hands of another victim of his "just wanting to make you money" schemes
Shouldn't there be a segment where Kernan gets decapitated or something? Can't let that two bit whore off the hook.
I really hates me some Joe Kernan.
That motherfucker....
The channel is a stream of shit shoveled out by shills....shit shoveling shills who shill for the highest bidder....the Fed.
Only fucking retards actually "watch" CNBC.
Apologies to retards....
Cheers Bitchez
I think the primary reason for the drop in viewership is the majority of people who have stopped watching recognize that CNBC LIES-----they are criminal liars that do nothing more than push the criminal propaganda of the criminal elite. To make matters worse, they only push one side, the left wing side. They were in the tank for Obama big time, primarily because the criminal mothership GE needed Obama in the white house so that they could continue pushing their medical, defense, and finance industries --- in other words, continue to spread debt and death. In the end it doesn't matter your political persuasion (which I think are both criminals)-----only the "truth" will set you free regardless of your belief system.
To summarize, the "owners" and "managers" of CNBC work for the elite, and they will lie, distort, or otherwise ignore news to suit their criminal agenda, plain and simple. Some people say they watch CNBC with the audio off for the ticker---others say they watch to see what the criminals are pushing----I say turn the criminals off completely and maybe, just maybe, they will "go away". Okay, I know that won't happen, but at least we can show these criminals that we are not buying what they are selling---dishonest propaganda. That is what these numbers are showing but they could be MUCH better----all those that "watch" with the audio off or just turn it on for background "noise"-----turn it to something else or just turn it off and listen to Internet radio or something----DON'T SUPPORT CRIMINALS AND LIARS!
CNBC represents everything that is wrong with Amerika-----state run propaganda might make the criminals and other elite feel good, but in the end, it is nothing more than lipstick on a pig. State run media like CNBC doesn't solve problems, it masks them, and the only way to fix what ails Amerika is to eliminate propaganda and deal with the core issues that fascism, kleptocracy, and thugocracy have created.
Jon Stewart called bullshit on CNBC when he skewered Jim Cramer on his show.
Need another round of Buffet and Becky(sarc)
Ha Ha, I wonder sometimes if that kid she just had is Buffets or not, with the amount of sucking off Buffet on air that she does...
What they need is another crisis so the mindless masses tune in and get their dose of propaganda "buy stocks u have to be in it for the long term" and I'm sure other talking points will pounded into their heads
"Is CNBC Fading Into Obscurity?"
Dear god, let us hope so!!!
That or they can join the shame line of Tokyo Rose...whether you sell out big or small, you're still a sell out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose
I think the problem goes a lot deeper than CNBC being a bunch of lying asses. Americans seem to LOVE to watch lying asses up and down the dial.
CNBS is a TV channel about investments. This implies viewers who have money to make investments. However, much of that loose middle class cash has now been removed from our hot little hands.
So why watch for news about investments when the only investment you have left is the big screen you're watching it on? Retail investing is nearly dead, and this is the guts of CNBC.
I don't watch CNBC anymore either except for a quick check of the averages (with the sound off) now and then.
But, if CNBC wants to turn around it's ratings slump, or part of it, quickly, all they have to do is get rid of Joe Kernan on the morning show and get rid of Cramer, period.
Maybe Becky, Maria, Kelly etc in Bikini while doing the show may do the trick. Wild suggestion though.
The good news for most of us is you are wrong-----CNBC cannot fix its problems simply by putting more puppets on in place of the existing ones. The problem with CNBC is it is run and owned by the state-----CNBC is a propaganda mouthpiece for the thugocracy/kleptocracy that runs Amerika. Don't underestimate the criminality that is involved in markets in Amerika----CNBC is the face and mouthpiece of this state run thugocracy and changing the puppets will not change anything. Oh sure, they may try, but smart people won't buy it.
The only way to "fix" CNBC is to do away with tit, and that starts by doing away with their owners (the Federal Reserve) and fixing the government and returning our form of government to a republic instead of a kleptocracy.
Fat chance of that happening but just to be clear CNBC's problems go way beyond what you see----they are owned by the criminal elite that have destroyed Amerika and unless you fix Amerika CNBC may change format but the overall criminal propaganda they spew will not change.
The day Jim Henson died
The comments aired by some of cnbc's staff at hosts at times is quite embarassing. Have heard a number from Michelle Caruso-Cabrera that are just plain embarssing, so no wonder the audience tunes out. Not hta the other financial channells are that much better, with one of the others famous for dressing up the anchors in short skirts and sitting them at a clear glass table. Finanical news is not news but entertainment.
Erin Burnett was the smart one. She saw the writing on the wall and quit before the earnings miss (so to say). Sexy Smarty Pants indeed.
It's better than 10 thousand dumb ones...
Those smart ones are hard to catch.
The Digital Dickweeds are beating the analog assclowns and the coaxial charlatans.
The Digital Dickweeds are beating the analog assclowns and the coaxial charlatans.
A) 20%of Americans ditched cable this year
B) Over 50% of us, maybe even more, don't even have money in the stock market
C) Financial news is always more riveting and complete in print; which is why we come to Zero Hedge.
Oh, and Joe Kernen is a douche.
Viewership does not mater for CNBS. They are supported by advertisers, for their loyalty to the 1%. It is one of the mechanisms that advertisers use to provide pay back for the excellent propagnad that lures unsuspecting investors into the great ponzi game.
Oh CNBC'd not that bad!
There's a ticker! Sadly, my money-grubbing sick Cable Provider took away the Bloombert.
And sometimes, on PBS, there is Market Report, without (alas) Louis Rukkheimer (sp?)
Really, get a grip some of you. The data the 1% needs is all on their "Smart Phones", or as I'll keep calling them the LCD's Leader Class Devices. Check out your 'Fidelity Broker APP' and you'll see a shadowy echo of what the LCD people get to play with. Instant info, quicker than most. (Not that it helps them as much as they think.)
XOE.
If the leaders of Zero Hedge read our musings please be aware
1. CNBC never asks what are you selling. It is always what are you buying.
2. The great market guys I read, Bill Fleckenstein, Fred Hickey, Michael Belkin are never
guests. They only bear they roll out os Jim Chanos and none of the CNBC people
have a clue about what he is saying. But I am starting to wonder if Jim is all there.
3. Kernan, with a fancy degree and a list of aphorisms is a short timer, as I suppose is
Rick Santelli. Rebecca Quick needs to get a set of crowns and is quite clueless. I do
think she had Warren Buffett's love child. The Sorkin guy from the liberal rag is so
useless I have to mute him. All of us who tune in do it for one reason, the CRAWL!
4. Bartiromo? A legend in her own mind who thinks she has impeccable contacts. Money-
wise she could not hit water if she fell out of a boat.
5. What CNBC and its management does not understand is what they portray as
financial news is useless. The people they interview are scary dumb. Bob Doll is one
of their experts and he got canned. Gartman? His red nose tells the story. He is never
on the wrong side of a trade. He always has a currency excuse.
6. Michelle Lee? Dear God, if that is what they produce out of Harvard send my kid
Junior College.
7. Sue Herrera???? They never show her from the neck down. I imagine when she gets
fired someone could use her as a barrage balloon.
8. Lastly, a tirade about CNBC is not complete without a comment about Jim Cramer.
The fact that he is still walking on two legs if proof his advice had not been adhered to.
If he ran money for the Russian mob they would have mailed pieces of him to CNBC.
In the dictionalry under " complete asshole " there is a picture of Cramer.
CNBC? How about anything ending in NBC is in the tank?
I watch Squawkbox until Joe Kernen opens his mouth and starts mouthing traditional rightwing talking points. Snap, the TV is off. Joe, your job is to report financial news, not take shots at Democrats. Your bias is disgusting.
If Obama wins re-elections, be sure to watch Kernen, Kudlow, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera the next day. I predict a severe outbreak of on-air kitten shitting.
Bias ... how about a balance to the daily liberal left that walks around at that network?
I actually turned on CNBC this morning because I was in a hotel room and I wanted to confirm why I got rid of cable over a year ago.
It was terrible. They were basically having a conversation about Europe and the "eurobonds" idea being thrown around. And it was talking in circles about how countries throughout europe needed to give up control of their finances. "We have a currency union, we need a banking union." "The US doesn't have the problem of California loaning Texas money." "Should their be a United States of Europe?"
They just sort of wrote off the differences between the european countries as a cultural differences and concluded that there should just be one Europe. As if we were just waiting on an update of Java or something asinine.
Globalist tripe.
I'm glad I got rid of cable. Saved over a $1000 the past year.
A thousand? Ouch, Satellite was about 24 dollars a month. Call it 300 even for the year.
We did fire em after constant bill creep.
24... then 25... then 27 then 31 and years later it's 60 and you are like wtf on 10 year old Satellite reciever tech.
We are freaking ... bundled with cable, phone and internet. And I argue with the husband that it doesn't have to be this way. (But the internet speed is fast and there is no buffering, dammit.) There are a couple of things we have disagreements about; not many so we're lucky. I shouldn't quibble about this one.
But with regard to this topic now that I go here and to other news sources for information and get the actual numbers for relevent financial things, I find I have no tolerance for any televised newsreader or opinion programming. No right/left slant, no supposed neutral coverage that leaves the germane points out just no tolerance. It's been this way for about a year now but the longer I'm away from it, the more clear I get.
The CNBC cable anchors are rodeo clowns, trying to distract the bulls so the riders can get back behind the protection of the fence. If everyone who watched the channel muted showed up in the ratings, there would be fewer of them.
I'll confess, at 7am mountain, I switch to CNBS just to see how they are handling (if at all) what I just read/learned about through other conduits from about 5am on. I do this as a sort of cross reference while prepping for the day. Not muted, but the graphics are some good work.
Some days are better than others over there, but the on air hosts are generally fumbling incompetents as far as I am concerned.
Distracting the Bulls, that's good. You are on to something here more coordinated than your post suggests.
all the lads here discussing tits, voices, hairstyles, etc. should be a major tell. . .
(nobody wants to admit to watching, but everyone seems to know the minutiae, discussing appearances like high school girls texting)
It is telling. Because if you're watching that shit you are in line for the slaugher. I have a live data feed (DTN), and a live squack box from Traders Audio. Watching CNBC is taking all of your funds, soaking them in gasoline, having a BBQ, and then hoping for a bailout. And people pay for the privelage of watching that shit.
Their ratings are correlated with the down syndrome trading population.
Welcome to CNBC
I love you.
Maybe WilliamBanzai could do us Jim Cramer decked in full rodeo clown, if he hasn't already.
Retail investors are no longer trading these markets for various reasons. Thereby broker dealers that used to service retail clients are closing up shop and turning off televisions. No one is going to feel sorry for the few traders we are talking about but this is the trend. Smaller shops are just not able to justify staying open with all the costly regulation as well.
Clearing firms are also falling victim to the lower trading activity and are starting to charge for items they used to disregard. Again because retail is not very active in trading this market. Thanks to Bernanke for creating this fiasco of a market.
Finally, people are getting rid of there cable because they can't afford it or are willing to get rid of it to save on there monthly bills. What a mess of an economy and market.
The Money Honey should do Playboy.
Hef has a better a better body than Maria at this point. Since Erin had the good sense to move on to CNN - I guess that leaves Mandy and Kelly.
The smart money is already out of the market. And noone wants to hear Jeffrey Immelts puppets cheerlead for Numbnuts.
Good bye Bubble Vision
I will never forget their Balloon drop and confetti on their Set the day the Naz hit 5,000.
Pump and Dump Mferz
Thank God for my Turner classics, Antenna TV and Columbo DVD collection. When TSHTF, Chances are my last and final show will be Sanford and Son. My wife was just watching CNN and i just caught a glimpse. Very painful to watch. Where the fuck is Roger Grimsby and Jim Jensen when you need them?
I am still working through Band of Brothers and such other collections.
ROME is good too, just in case.
It's because CNBC is pushing an agenda, not information! It's the Obamanomics Channel!
I stopped watching nearly 4 years ago. I'm glad I did! I got sick of the propaganda! I sent an email to one of the hosts and threatened to leave. He wrote me back and said, "Go right ahead!" I walked! So have my friends!
It would be so good to have ONE Business news channel that actually does a "Zero Hedge". Right now we only have RT (Keiser and Lyster) which doesn't really count. I suppose the problem is that as sson as they stop licking Wall St's butt, no more free content in the form of guests from FI's. But hasn;t it reached the point where it might be worth a try? As of now, CNBS is totally a waste of time.
Incidentally, if they were really interested in online, why don't they STREAM the fucking thing like Bloomberg. I would suggest that folks become accustomed online to the Bloomberg format and hosts (Including money honeys who are easier on the eye than CNBS) and then just follow on should they watch cable.
blah blah blah... KILL YOUR TELEVISION.
'cept for Breaking Bad.
Most neighbors like beer.
FUCK YOU TO HELL CNBS! PROPAGANDA FOR A DYING PONZI SCHEME!
indeed
and UPPERcase notwithstanding the left right paradigm applies to financial TV as well
sub BBS in the above
Fuck CNBC.
Those newsroom sluts should put on a short skirt, walk the streets, and do a real job for a change.
if you're watching, they're earning their wages.
The ratings are falling because the on air staff HAVE to treat their guests like royalty despite facts.
This does not bode well in an environment where its exactly the financial world's behavior driving an awakening wherein those guests are known culprits in one way or another in the royal screwing going on.
They still follow a model that demands good treatment of putrid, water carrying, propaganda dishing, useful idiot, guests as they believe good ratings depend on it.
The "get".
Bullshit. Once a shill is discovered, that shill needs to be exposed accordingly on the spot.
CNBC needs to invert that model: bring on guests from the REAL world of money. Bring on the heroes from the front line unafraid to speak the truth. Make controversy the model for guests. Bring on Alex Jones, Michel Chossudovsky, William Banzai 7, etc..
Mention Zerohedge.com alot, too..
OH, and one more thing: hire an actual anchor to wrap up the day's highlights ( A GOOD ONE) and get on air staff who can think critically and handle truth telling guests keeping the conversation a CONVERSATION.
Mark Haines was only reason to tune in -
Anyone who thinks that a Zerohedge channel would not be sucessful should immediately quit ZH and never return.
The time is nigh. Make the offer, displace useless CNBC and go 24/7 with The Zero Hedge Channel. You will not be sorry, but you will certainly be opposed.
MAKE WAVES
Now that would not be a bad idea.
ZHTV!!!!
As a matter of fact, the only time that I see CNBC is when I am scrolling to the History Channel. However, with that said, I would also like to add one more thing, that there must also be built for the show - A GALLOW's. Built specifically to hang bankers LIVE and on TV. Have to have at least one "Hang a Banker" day a week. NOW THAT WOULD CAPTIVATE VIEWERS. Only bankers of course. Once we run out of bankers, then we would have to look very hard at the politicians who helped them!!!! Just saying.
Yeah, but at that point ZH is out of the basement which means it goes full Project Mayhem; theoretically ZH would no longer exist then.....
A zh web channel. Ask the $140 million dollar man how it is done.
...but no one is watching/believes the 140 million dollar man.
I could fill a book with my observations and opinions concerning CNBC - not that anyone in their right mind would read it. I'll resist the urge to ramble on and just say this - CNBC can never, NEVER be objective because almost all their advertisers are money managers of one sort or another. They can't say or do anything that would encourage redemptions or just sitting in cash.
CNBC is just one long commercial for a hopelessly defective product.
It's the eyes ol' Squicky makes at Buffett that weird people out and make one's subconscious run away screaming in terror
Capital Markets are broken...NYSE floor has a fuckn Starbuck's and a sound stage built in......hmmmmmm
something just doesn't feel right.....
What is CNBC?
Same thing as RT
CNBC is nothing more than a financial porn show with Jim Cramer doing a pole dance while all the 'barbie' doll anchors do lap dances for their guests.
All the screen clutter purporting to be information are like telephone numbers scrawled on a restroom stall - unless you're desperate for a quick way to get robbed they have no real appeal.....
Ok, I guess in my new CNBC, I'll keep Santelli.
CNBC recent crap:
The FB Sploogefest, they are still scraping dried splooge off the walls.
Cramer's ball cupping of every scammer that walks by i.e. Dimon, McClendon
Well gee any investor should know by now they are a bunch of liars and/or clueless.
xactly. Even those of us who've never been a trader/"investor" know this..
Gotta wonder what it is the management of that network are trying to accomplish cause the product is shit.
on a side note, good to see you as always.
They really are a bunch of paid flacks, not an honest reporter in sight, except, maybe, Santelli... wish I had more options without forking over...
businfotainment- watching this gives you as much info on business as seeing justin bieber perform in rockefeller plaza on a today show.
and who is that kid idiot on in the morning. He looks like he just got out of b-school. if he walked into my business and proceeded to tell me anything I would put him to cleaning toilets.
I dont know how those people look in the mirror in the morning- pretending to know what to invest in. Kind of like most of wallst
Most of you guys are BS. MAD Money can teach more about stocks than any show on TV. Cramer gives the best Intervirews of CEO's. You have to make your own choices and he is a wild man but he teaches a lot about stocks. No one else educates like Cramer. Most of you guys could are just too lazy to do your home work. It is a free show and better than anything else. He is good for prespective in a wild market. I am self taught and have done well the last 5 years. I only buy a few Cramer stocks but if you love the game Cramer is a seasoned professional. He is a good starting point. If you can not make money get out of the game. Even in a bad market you can park your money in a BMY or ETP and cash etc...and orphan drug stocks on the dips or trade around your stock.
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So annoying to watch
Kernan never let's anyone speak constantly interrupting
Insana. Where did he go
Terranova. Buy high sell low. Horrible advice
Gartman. Gold expert. Are you serious .
A small fortune can be made fading theses guys advice every time
I wish this would also happen to Fox News too. Both networks are a waste of kcal.
You know Karen Finerman(I think), her, I'll miss (fastmoney, I think?) , used to watch her, 07-09 and she'd always name some off the wall stock. They're talkin' oil, for example and the usual "buy XOM" from the crowd and she'd say "I'm getting Bob's widgets, ticker bwgts" they'd pan cameras out with everyone quickly looking at her like she farted, over the wide views during the next 3 mins or so, then the next 2 days the ticker she quoted would fuckin' run, baby! I'd made 7-10% on her half dozen times.
And Rick(of course), but someone will pick him up.
At least Mark Hanes used to put the guest under pressue, early in the 90's. The hosts that are on now are butt-kissers/boot-lickers. Joe Kernen is a real butt-kisser/boot-licker when guest come on, it's sickening. Does Joe Kernen wear knee-pads and perform indecent acts on the CEOs during the breaks?
As soon as Dylan Ratigan switched from CNBC to MSNBC he got religion and had some very interesting shows, Except for Rick Santelli CNBC is a sleeper!
Bloomberg is a bit better with factual presentation.
Perhaps the producer of CNBC is trying to maintain it's circus atmosphere.
my favorite Mark Hanes quote: "somebody took those buildings down."
NBC= (N)eo (B)olshevik (C)hannelLIESman, cramer, ira ross sorkin, faber, greenberg, kaminsky, rovell, finerman, kudlow the born again "Christian", boorstin, melissa francis, "zach" karabell, jane wells.Such a mitzvah everyday at Englewood Cliffs, itz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Itz almost as if these "jews" are groomed and put in place to protect a criminal enterprise (fellow "jews"), control the flow or information to their advantage, censor unwanted opinions, present the absurd as de rigeur.Hitler was right.
Hitler was suicidal, whatta hero. Fuck you(and no, I'm NOT a "Joooo", but your Furror might have been, grandma beaing a Solomon and all...read more there, neo natzee)
Sure you are, whining about Hitler gave you away again. LOL, Jews need some new material.
Whatever, can you contest anything I wrote? Whining's what your girlfriend does about you when you're not around, bitchboy, isrhole. If you said something remotely logical, OP, like "why do we fund Israel with $1.5B per annum when Americans are unemployed?" I may have upflagged ya, Hitler's no hero, dipshit. And btw, I'd have agreed because it's logical, not cause I'm racist. I do agree with your right to say whatever(I've fought for it) as well as my right to call you a buffoon for your motives. You " Can't Read Good " to quote a famous Jewish AMERICAN actor, Ben Stiller.
"We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency coverage of gold of which we had none, but for every (new reich´s) mark that was issued interest free [non usury system], we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced. . . .we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value of a currency is regulated by the gold and securities lying in the vaults of a state bank." -Adolf Hitler, 1937 (CC Veith, Citadels of Chaos, Meador, 1949.)
"And it proved sound. It worked. In less than ten years Germany became easily the most powerful state in Europe. It worked so magically and magnificently that it sounded the death knell of the entire (Zionist) Jewish money system. World Jewry knew that they had to destroyHitler's system, by whatever means might prove necessary, or their own [system of usury] would necessarily die. And if it died, with it must die their dream and their hope of making themselves masters of the world. The primary issue over which World War II was fought was to determine which money system was to survive. At bottom it was not a war between Germany and the so-called allies. Primarily it was war to the death between Germany and the International Money Power." - William Gayley Simpson
TV is for retards. Keep pumping that shit in your brain then wonder why you can't think straight.
Their "first in business" claim is/was fraudulent advertising. Gave up on them 4-5 years ago.
All they had in the 6am to 9am time slot when I tried to watch was the same old clueless sell side stock/marjet hypseters 95% of the time, and right wing political hacks who belong on Fox News and not a business channel. The few times I have tried to watch, it remains the most CONTENT FREE program on TV - other than the music channels whic atleast serve a useful purpose.
Mark Haynes was a huge loss. Becky Quick was the only serious person there, who seems to have been subjugated by Kernan'a right wing, same old same old daily BS about "uncertaintly", "regulation" and anti-Obama screeds he loves to stuff in every guests mouth! One would have thought they have producers and editors who review the show everyday to see if they were adding value given the claims they make for their "brand" - as a business channel, CNBC is mostly first in BS and should be called CNBS! A time filler to sell ads to the "financial industry".
Bloomberg just started a 6am show, that is far more business oriented and has guests with efereshing and informative discussions that are not focused on the hosts political ideas or ignorance.
The problem with CNBC is that they value their hosts' time and opinions more than informing their guests.
Becky Quick serious ? You've got to be kidding. Maybe you forgot your sarc tag. Have you ever heard Buffet's mouthpiece ask a genuine probing question? She's a joke.
How did Mark Haines know what the markets were going to do? His famous Haines bottem call.
Did Barney Frank have Mark Haines killed for making a fool of him ? Was Barney discovered by his own party and made to resign .... the worst thing they can do to one of their own ? Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Humourless Gay Predator
CNBC are dinosaurs. Relics from a time before the internet was widespread.
So is the whole dying 20th century television business model, lagging slightly behind newspapers and magazines.
What I really want to know is Joe Kernan's hair and Michelle's tits fake or real?
Watching Kernan and co. fellating that poisoned dwarf Jack Welch once a month on Squawk Box is one of the most nauseating sites on TV.
I missed that episode, do they wear kneepads for comfort?
If only Becky Quick would have done a preggo Maxim spread.
Lost that chance, someone already knocked Becky Quickie up.
Maybe their vulgar and idiotic sound effects played over and under graphics and airheads has something to do with their failure. Even if it doesn't, they annoy the f$$k out of me.
What's a CNBC?
Maybe the problem is that people dont want to see the elites' propaganda when they watch the news, they want balanced critical reporting.
Bring back Fnn the FNCI index, Richard Ney and commodity infomercials. And I want Joe granville! Atleast I'll feel like a kid again
CNBC and Joe Kernan need to rot in hell. Both are useless noise.
Retail died 4 years ago....stuff Dan Dorfman, and put lipstick on him, prop him up with a tip (the regulators are watching porn
anyhow)
next to the loudmouth morning jerks, and have a recording of a broad screaming bye bye bye......with CNN playing in
background...... some 2 m homes at auction, in foreclosure....
and call it a Pig, no its a Bull, no its a bear, no ....its Fraudstreet and a Scam...
CMON, YOU CAN DO IT....!!!!
and the old worn out ladies, get some tits....its showbiz not a financial show dummies.
Coming soon: "I Love Lucy" reruns.
Maybe they are aware of that and finally stopped lying... no?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKchHKMb2k
This network just sucks donkey cock.
Seriously.
Does anyone with money to trade actualliy view this waste-of-cable TV as anything remotely resembling good advice?
Louis Rukeyser farted better ideas than the whole mess of these camera primping fools.
Good riddance.
Their paper Gold and Silver ticker has been showing unch for two days. JOKERS. STEVE SEDGWICK you should be on stand up comedy, you just need a joker hat GEOFF CUTMORE shold be the Master of Ceremonies with all the girls doing a 'Knees Up Mother Brown' YES YOU ARE A BUNCH OF CLOWNS! Oh Maria Bartiromo DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY IS, OR RATHER DO YOU KNOW WHAT MONEY IS?
"Business Intelligence" hahaHA! Good riddance, and well deserved self destruction.
Have you ever seen so much hate for a media agency? It has EVERYTHING to do with this: people don't like being fooled or cheated. Cnbc is a non-objective, minion for Wall St. It thinks we are fools.
Imagine you are a kid. "Let's see.....when I grow up I want to be a child molester, Hitler, or a producer at cnbc."
Personally, if James Cramer droped dead today? I would crack a bottle of Bollinger......and I don't drink.
The US would be better off withoiot cnbc. Many naive and elderly would be safer.
CNBC=GE=Imelt=O'Bama
Good to see, the turd that CNBC is, getting flushed.
We need ZHTV.
What happened to Liebe Geft? Bring her back.
CNBC? Neverrrr heard of it.....