Maria Bartiromo Leaving CNBC For FBN

Breaking: Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business.

“After 20 years of groundbreaking work at CNBC, Maria Bartiromo will be leaving the company as her contract expires on November 24,” a CNBC spokesperson tells TVNewser. “Her contributions to CNBC are too numerous to list but we thank her for all of her hard work over the years and wish her the best.”

Drudge Report, which was first to report the news, says Bartiromo will anchor a daily FBN program during the market hours and also have a role on Fox News.

Bartiromo, who celebrated her 20th anniversary with CNBC last month, signed with CAA in May. We reported at the time that her contract was set to expire at the end of the year.

Bartiromo will re-join Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, who first put her on the air when he ran CNBC. She will also be reunited with Lou Dobbs, who was her boss at CNN in the early 1990s. As Bartiromo recounted to TVNewser in 2011, Dobbs told her a move to CNBC would be a big career mistake:

But Lou Dobbs wanted to restructure the newsroom and I was on the assignment desk, so Lou promoted me to senior producer for the morning shows and I was upset, because it would put me on the overnights again, and take me out of the field. So after all my crying — I used to cry on the 22nd floor of CNN — I went back and put together my reel. Re-shooting the stories I’d produced. And I sent it to CNBC and Peter Sturtevant and Roger Ailes said “we want to put you on the air.” I went to Lou and I said, “Lou, I’m leaving.” And he said, “Maria, you’re making the biggest mistake of your life.”

Via: TVNewser
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Maria Bartiromo: Obamacare Making America a ‘Part-Time Employment Country’

CNBC host Maria Bartiromo accused the Affordable Care Act of turning the United States into a “part-time employment country” on Sunday’s Meet the Press. She said that there are incentives within the health care reform law which create an incentive for business to cut back their employees’ hours.

“Beyond the glitches, there are other issues and that has had implications with the goal we’re supposed to have, and that is job creation,” Bartiromo said. “Businesses have changed their plans as a result of Obamacare.”

RELATED: Poll: 41% Of Small Businesses Froze Hiring Due To Obamacare, 19% Have Laid Off Employees

“We are becoming something of a part-time employment country,” she continued. “We’re seeing some groups moved off of health care from business because business is complaining that it’s too expensive.”

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne said that it was “not clear” that there was any evidence to support Bartiromo’s charge. He noted that America had been moving towards being a “part-time employment country” before the ACA was passed.

Watch the clip below via NBC:

Via: Mediaite.com

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