While channel-surfing the other night, I came across the premiere episode of CNBC's new business news-magazine show, Business Nation. Hosted by David Faber, this appears to be one of the smartest, most entertaining business news shows to come along in awhile.
It's a lot like CNBC's On the Money ("It's 7:00 on Wall Street... Do you know where your money is?"), but seems to cover more entertaining topics. The edition that I saw had a segment on the booming business of Ultimate Fighting, the use of eBay as fence for stolen goods, and a profile of the guy who invented the Super Soaker.
I think it is one of the few CNBC shows that will appeal to investors and non-investors alike. If they're able to continue to provide programming like the profile of the UFC, the 18-35 demographic that is so highly sought after by advertisers should flock. CNBC is owned by NBC Universal, which is a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE).
The show is on Saturdays at 10, but is repeated often. If future episodes are as good as the first, this is CNBC's best show (Yeah, that's right Jim Cramer).
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-29-2007 @ 6:34PM
Randy Smythe said...
I felt it was a great show also. I am disappointed though I thought they were going to produce a new hour each week but it looks like this first show is just going to repeat ad infinitum; like everything else on cable.
I understand the economics of cable TV but I'm sure they can create an original hour every week without breaking the bank. Maybe they just repeat it until they get an aggregate 1 rating.
On another subject, I do want CNBC to offer, “Blips” that’s what I call video clips for bloggers. I would love to search CNBC.com each day for “Blips” on the subjects I cover so I could add them to my blog. In my case that would be “Blips” on eBay, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft, MySpace, and YouTube; there’s at least one good story one of those companies each day. BTW CNBC I am also willing to pay for it, possibly by subscription or maybe even including advertising (Of course I don’t want to pay if its advertising).
So if anyone out there knows someone at CNBC please send him or her my way.
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1-29-2007 @ 10:14PM
John Newcomb said...
CNBC did a nice hit attempt on eBay. How can a credible company try to blame thieves who steal merchandise from retailers and sell them on eBay the fault of the selling platform? Why not put blame on the theives? I guess CNBC forgot to consider that.
1-30-2007 @ 8:22AM
Marsello said...
Love the segment on UFC, this is really an up and coming sport trend in the U.S. Unfortunately, the only public investment is the recently set up IFL which is not as popular and too risky of an investment for me. Would be interested to check out the eBay segment though.
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