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  • CNBC chairman Pamela Thomas-Graham joins Liz Claiborne as group presi

    MUMBAI: Pamela Thomas-Graham will be stepping down as the chairman of CNBC and will be joining Liz Claiborne Inc. as group president, with responsibility for the company’s flagship Liz Claiborne label as well as other brands.     
                
    Thomas-Graham said, “I am delighted to be joining the outstanding management team at Liz Claiborne Inc. This well-respected Fortune 500 company has an enviable track record and has several of the most highly regarded apparel brands in America in its portfolio. I worked with several apparel companies when I was a partner at McKinsey & Company, and joining one of the most successful companies in the industry is an opportunity I could not pass up. In order to accept this challenging new assignment, I am, effective today, resigning my position as Chairman of CNBC. While I look forward to my new responsibilities, I also will miss working with my distinguished colleagues at GE, NBCU and CNBC. These past six years have been extraordinarily fulfilling both professionally and personally. I am proud of all that we have accomplished as a team, and I am particularly grateful to Bob Wright for the opportunity to work with him and for my leadership role at CNBC. I know the network will continue to flourish because of the quality of the team here, which has made CNBC the industry standard for world class business news coverage.”

    NBC Universal chairman and CEO Bob Wright said, “While we regret losing Pamela as a colleague, we congratulate her on her new position. As CEO and then Chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television. During her tenure, the organization successfully built and moved to its new global headquarters, and the network earned its first Peabody Award. Pamela’s talents are many and I have confidence in her ability to succeed in her future endeavors. We all wish Pamela the very best in this exciting career opportunity.”

    Thomas-Graham has served as chairman of CNBC since February 2005. Before her promotion to chairman, she served as president and CEO of CNBC for four years. Previously, she was the president and CEO of CNBC.com, the network’s website.

    She joined NBC in 1999 from management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where she was the firm’s first black female partner and a member of its Consumer practice. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Thomas-Graham is the author of three mystery novels published by Simon & Schuster.

  • CNBC elevates CEO to chairman, names new president

    CNBC elevates CEO to chairman, names new president

    MUMBAI: In two related executive announcements, CNBC has promted Pamela Thomas-Graham as the chairman of business news channel CNBC and Mark Hoffman has been named as the new president.

    The announcements were made yesterday in New York by General Electric (NBC’s parent company) vice chairman and NBC Universal chairman and CEO Bob Wright along with NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker.

    Thomas-Graham was earlier CNBC president and CEO and her appointment is effective immediately. In her new position, Thomas-Graham will be reporting to Wright and will be responsible for strategic planning for CNBC and for identifying major growth opportunities for the brand, including potential brand extensions. The appointment was made in recognition of the global scale, profitability and prominence of CNBC as the world leader in business news and its continued growth potential.

    Hoffman, who was earlier NBC Universal-owned WVIT president and general manager, will hold the position of CNBC president and will report to both Zucker and Thomas-Graham.

    “Pamela has driven profitable growth for CNBC in a very challenging economic environment. I have been impressed by her intellect and leadership capabilities and look forward to working with her on a number of important new strategic opportunities. During her tenure, CNBC built impressively upon its global prominence as the most important and profitable worldwide business news television brand. I welcome her in her new role as chairman,” Wright said.

    “We have achieved a number of successes during my tenure as president,” said Thomas-Graham.”I look forward to being able to now focus on CNBC’s strategic planning challenges to generate continued growth for the company.”

    Thomas-Graham was appointed CNBC president and CEO in July 2001. Previously, she was CNBC.com’s president and CEO. She joined NBC in 1999 from McKinsey & Company, where she was a partner.

    As CNBC president, Hoffman will undertake day-to-day responsibility for the network’s operations, programming and technology. The appointment represents a homecoming for Hoffman, who served at CNBC as executive producer (1997-98), vice president/ managing editor (1999-2000) and vice president/ managing editor, business development (2001). In addition, Hoffman served as interim president of London-based CNBC Europe from September 2000 through January 2001.

    “I am thrilled to be rejoining CNBC and teaming up with some of the brightest and most creative television professionals in the industry. I couldn’t be more optimistic about the future of CNBC,” Hoffman said.

    Hoffman began his career in 1981 as a news associate at KNX Radio in Los Angeles. He moved to television a year later as a producer at KMGH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Denver. He ascended the ranks as a producer at WNEV-TV in Boston; executive producer and then managing editor at WLS-TV in Chicago; assistant news director at WABC-TV in New York; and news director at WAGA-TV in Atlanta and WBBM-TV in Chicago. In March 1993 Hoffman joined the NBC family as vice president, news at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He later served as vice president/general manager of KDNL-TV in St. Louis and executive producer/development at Warner Brothers/Telepictures before joining CNBC as executive producer in July 1997.

  • CNBC gives comedian Dennis Miller a daily show

    LOS ANGELES: Comedian Dennis Miller will become a TV talking head again in January, this time hosting an hour long show five nights a week on CNBC.
    Miller, an Emmy award winner, will also serve as executive producer of the prime-time talk show, which will be taped in Burbank and produced by NBC Studios.
    Miller began his career 18 years ago at NBC as a regular on Saturday Night Live. In 1994, he launched a weekly series on Time Warner Inc.’s HBO cable channel called Dennis Miller Live. Later he was a Monday Night Football commentator for two seasons on Walt Disney Co.’s ABC network.
    “We are thrilled that he has chosen CNBC as his new prime-time home,” said CNBC President Pamela Thomas-Graham.
    Hiring Miller is an aggressive programming move by CNBC, whose nighttime audience is generally smaller than those of its cable competitors.
    Miller will be the first broadly known personality to appear on 
    the network’s prime-time lineup since Geraldo Rivera left CNBC for Fox News Channel in 2001. CNBC has been focusing mostly on business-oriented talk programs at night, like Kudlow & Cramer and Capital Report. Miller’s new program will not necessarily focus on business but on whatever is the most compelling topic of the day, CNBC executives said.
    In an unusual arrangement for cable news, it will be produced by CNBC’s entertainment corporate sibling, NBC Studios, which also makes shows like Will & Grace. This is not CNBC’s first nighttime programming experiment. It has also announced that a quarterly show that features the former magazine editor Tina Brown interviewing leaders of finance, media and politics, will become a weekly.