Maybe days after various media congloms announced plans to lay off thousands of journalists isn’t the best time to unveil at TCA a new reality TV series about 1%ers having trouble selling multi-million dollar homes. CNBC bravely did so anyway, on Day 1 of Winter TCA 2019. “Sometimes we go into homes [that owners]…

CNBC is focusing on real estate as a programming growth area, with three new original series on that theme joining the primetime lineup in May. The business network made the announcement during NBCUniversal’s day of cable network presentations at TCA winter press tour. Listing Impossible follows superstar real estate…

President Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen threatened to sue CNBC to get his boss higher placement on the cable network’s list of top business leaders after Cohen’s efforts to rig the polling failed, The Wall Street Journal reported. Cohen threatened to sue on the dubious legal grounds of "ignoring the will…

CNBC is reshuffling the team responsible for business news, with Nik Deogun departing after eight years as senior VP and editor in chief of CNBC Business Day and Satpal Brainch rejoining the company as global president. Brainch, who has held various global posts for CNBC and its parent, NBCUniversal, in recent years…

Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal, kicked off the fourth annual NBC Innovation Day with a keynote appearance touching on the Facebook scandal and the consolidation spree going on in the media business, among other subjects. “Facebook has a real problem,” Burke told moderator Becky Quick, co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box, …

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg acknowledged that the social network will likely be subject to regulation in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which millions of users’ personal information was accessed without their permission. “It’s not a question of ‘if regulation’ it’s a question of…

UPDATED, 12:44 PM: Nationally syndicated columnist and CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow said he has accepted Donald Trump’s offer to become the president’s top economic advisor. “I am thrilled and honored to serve this President,” Kudlow told WABC Radio host Rita Cosby today. “I am ready to serve President Trump and the…

CNBC is bringing back popular game show Deal or No Deal with its original host Howie Mandel. Per CNBC, the reimagined Deal or No Deal will feature all the high energy and risk-reward that captivated audiences, with some exciting new twists. Produced for CNBC by Emmy-winning Truly Original, a subsidiary of Endemol…

Larry Kudlow, the longtime CNBC personality and an economist in the Reagan administration, has emerged as the frontrunner to become President Donald Trump’s new head of the National Economic Council, the White House’s top economic advisor. The post was vacated last week by Gary Cohn. Reports surfaced earlier Monday…

UPDATE The device that got a reality TV crew arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport last night was not a fake bomb, but a “vacuum compression luggage” device, says production company Endemol Shine North America. According to Endemol, in a statement released tonight: "On January 18, some cast and crew members…

CNBC was at TCA today to announce three new original primetime series, return dates for some returning shows and a slew of projects in development. The NBCUniversal-owned business-focused cable net also has renewed Jay Leno’s Garage for a fourth season to bow in the spring. The new originals are BYOB: Be Your Own Boss…

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)…