CNBC

CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., (Fun fact: Anderson Cooper never had a show on CNBC. He was always on CNN.) owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The CNBC channel originally had its beginnings around 1980 as the Satellite Program Network (SPN), showing a low-budget mix of old...