Mark Hoffman announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down as chairman of CNBC in September. KC Sullivan will return to the network to become president, starting on Sept. 12, Cesar Conde wrote in a memo. “Over the last 17 years as President and then Chairman, Mark has overseen the steady … Read entire story.
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On the heels of its most-watched July among adults 18-49 and 18-34, CNBC Primetime has announced its fall lineup which includes new series The Job Interview, returning hits The Profit, which premieres its fifth season on November 21, Adventure Capitalists (October 10) and Secret Lives of the Super Rich (September 28), and … Read entire story.
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The big-chinned legend of late-night — who hosted ‘The Tonight Show’ for 23 years — opens up about his unlikely ascent from vagrant to Johnny Carson’s successor, the truth about his friendships-turned-feuds with Dave and Conan and why he now hosts a show about cars for CNBC…. Read entire story.
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CNBC is ramping up its business-based primetime slate. The network has renewed Jay Leno’s Garage and The Filthy Rich Guide, given a pilot order to Back in The Game, a sports-focused project with MLB star Alex Rodriguez and executive produced by Michael Strahan, and set three projects … Read entire story.
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CNBC’s The Profit host/ investor Marcus Lemonis came to TCA today to pitch a spinoff show, The Partner, in which he searches for someone to help him run businesses he’s saved from brink of disaster in his mothership show. Asked by one reporter why they should not write, of … Read entire story.
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