CNBC First Inaugural Broadcast - April 1989

In April 1989, Bob Wright, then President of NBC, introduced the cable audience to the Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC). This channel would eventually become in partnership with the Financial News Network (FNN), and finally become the sole business news network before Bloomberg or Fox introduced Fox Business News in 2008, staffed by former early CNBC anchors such as Neil Cavuto.

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Entertainment

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• CNBC
• FIRST
• BROADCAST
• BOB
• WRIGHT
• CONSUMER
• NEWS
• AND
• BUSINESS
• CHANNEL
• APRIL
• 1989
• FNN
• FINANCIAL

[Melville10]

CNBC has become what Wright didn't want.

[DuctapePenguin]

FNN was much better than CNBC

[MrGamespecialist]

So thats how cnbc started. Normally ive became a fan of american local and National news since 2007. I live in the Philippines and i'm proud of cnbc.

[somethingcar77]

I just don't feel like there really is any decent business news network on t.v. to watch. I'm way to young to remember FNN and I don't know much about early CNBC but I just know somethings lacking in business t.v. that I think should have been filled by now. I wish there was something out there that was more analytical and something I could sink my teeth into.

[Bloodybunny]

Campion's HAIR! But yeah, even as a kid I could tell FNN was simply far better at what it did than CNBC, even today.

[dandydonaldo]

"First Inaugural Broadcast" is what they call it at the Department of Redundancy Department, which keeps America and the USA redundant and repeating itself 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Nights, too.

[chyrongeek]

He is a fraud when it comes to autism. maybe he should shut that org down and go back to Englewood Cliffs and try to restore CNBC and bring back what he promised in this intro. Even after buying FNN, they still had solid news. Now it really is a "rip and read" news service, and "someone elses impression of the news" and other BS that makes me want to watch FBN or Bloomberg.

[wiedep]

the co. shrunk in stature after bob w. was forced out...