In the early s, PBS provided partial funding and distribution for the series and, in , CNBC bought the series and provided the financial and editorial support. Nightly Business Report has had a significant footprint for us, airing in various dayparts on six of our channels.
Will there be another daily business news series in the future? Can anything be done to encourage the continuation of this excellent program? Frankly I am in total shock and feel utterly abandoned. Is it Comcast who pulled the plug? To be honest, Bill Griffith was great, but Sue Herrera helped get this once-great show cancelled. She was getting worse and worse.
She barely knew what she was reading, and she looked awful some nights. They could have easily replaced her with any one of the great CNBC correspondents available, but they chose not to.
She knows. And feel ok about posting it? How about focusing on what is important about women, which is everything except their looks. Sue Herrera was a class act. I love her! And of course, you complain about her looks… typical criticism of a woman in the spotlight. I applaud her for all the great work she did, and Bill too. Hope it will return in no time with its powerful voice. Stunned to find out tonight at when Bill said it was the last.
Im surprised that Sue Herrera was not there for the last show. Paul Kangas felt like family to me. Wishing you the best of good buys! Thanks for the feedback link. NBR has been our go to place for financial news and information.
It feels absolutely awful to see it end. Please bring the show back! We all need it. Thanks for the link. I sent them my concerns with respect to cancelling NBR and the lack of available quality business information available to the general public. Thank you so much for the link. I made sure to submit my deep regret and hope others make their feelings known too. Was it too expensive to produce? I shall be reflecting on this betrayal next fund raising crusade.
Twice a year I have pledged and paid. No more. I wonder how many more might feel the same, the shame. APT fully funded it. How is it a CNBC decision? Seems like was a slippery slope since PTV cut funding by necessity some years ago and staff cuts happened. APT funded the production, but it never was meant to be a profit making enterprise.
It was done as a service for public television. We are deeply disappointed that this program is being discontinued! We have been regular viewers since the late s and occasional viewers before that. We learned so much from watching the program. We often followed up in greater detail on topics we first learned from NBR. I am truly sad! I want to thank Nightly Business Report for keeping me informed on investing over the years.
Taking this show off of the air is a big mistake. Anyone who found it, benefitted from watching it. Thank you NBR. Unbelievable…clear, concise and accurate business reporting and CNBC cancelled it. Why am I not surprised….. Critical business analysis last. PBS is the place for this professional non biased type of Business Update nightly program.
The bias on other channels has become nearly ridiculous. This truly was a very informative and professionally presented institution. I am shocked and disappointed. Please replace it with exactly the same quality of nightly business reporting anything less would be unacceptable.
They set the bar , but we must reach for a higher bar on television then the garbage that is promoted while the truly informative or family values style TV is destroyed. A sad day for a reliable information institution. Best wishes to all effected by poor management decisions, hopefully it will benefit them to a greater degree in the long run after all they are exactly what we need on TV.
The dumbing down of the nation just took a huge step in that direction. I would also mention lack of accountability of commentators. There were some good things obviously. To my mind the program lost its mojo about a year before Linda O Bryon left.
Something was definitely wrong during her final year. And then came Susie Gharib, who I thought was horrible. Yes, I will miss it. But I am not going to pretend that it was exceptionally good. We live in a capitalistic economy. When I did hear a report on labor relations, it was always fair and non-discriminatory.
Just the facts. Hell, they even dared to report on the effects of climate change once in a while. Try finding that on the cable financial networks. Which is just the way the corporate overlords want it. With its cancellation, a hole has been knocked into my life.
I dearly wish for something as good, or nearly so, to come up. Thank you NBR for all the years. You gave us all so much. I hope you can bring the gang back together some day. They should have stuck to the Paul Kangas format. You knew what moved the market every part of the day and learned a lot. It was required watching for serious investors.
New format wasted money on-location shots, did not have market pros like Pisani every day so just needs to be redone the old way. It was not as good as it should have been but was the only one.
I agree with the above statements. It was sort of recap of what was on CNBC during day, in case you miss part of the daytime program. I am very active in stock market and will miss this program as a great source for stock market information. Please bring NBR back. Willing to pay for it!!!! Commercials ok! I have watched and recorded these programs nightly since What a huge loss for me but even more so for younger individuals who have not received the education that I have.
These programs are the major reason that I have contributed to public television they helped me make money so I feel that I should give something back. I will be looking for a substitute program but I strongly feel that i will not find one as good as NBR.
To all involved in NBR, thank you. If it was only a handful of us viewers who loved the show, just tell us! This is an absolutely ridiculous decision. Those of us who are passionate about this show need to take coordinated action!
I, too, only learned tonight of this loss and hope PBS will find another source that will continue to inform and educate us on financial matters. I depended on NBR to help me make investment decisions and have done quite well because of the info provided by this show.
Surely there is some bright person out there that will take notice of an opportunity to fill this void and make some money too. I suppose this was inevitable. What now? The lightning round with Jim Cramer? No thanks. I feel betrayed by CNBC. NBR is watched by people throughout the world thru the internet. I watched it from the Philippines. They forgot that for the love of money is the root of all evil.
A very poor decision to end this program and it marks a further deterioration in the quality of programming in the US. There is a real need for programming like this.
Bloomberg is very technical and not for the general public, CNBC is poor quality and somewhat mindless as are most of the other outlets. NBR was low key, factual without all the drama and all the better for it. A sad loss. This highlights a trend in the USA — the only thing that matters is profits. Viewership and quality were not important — only profits. It does not seem to matter if a program provides knowledge and information [such as NBR] — what matters is how much profit it generates.
It saddens me that this program is over. We are left with programs in which groups of people are on the TV screen at the same time often raising their voices and not allowing other speakers to finish their sentences.
We are left with tweets twisting facts and reality. We have lost another program that helped us understand the world around us. Well said. And it went downhill ever since. I am really disappointed. In 30 minutes we had a very good portrait of the stock market situation. Sue and bill ,were very good. I was listening to the program from Cassie Siefert and Paul Kangas.
Benoit Beaulne Montreal and Boca Raton. I watched it everyday and enjoy the well informed of economic prospective of the world. Very sad to see the only finance program on NPR goes. Good luck to the people who care about financial well beings and understand social connection with economic picture.
We learned last night of the demise of the NBR ad were shocked! We value the breadth and depth of the reporting and interviews. We are both attorneys, retired, but engaged in public affairs and find BR a most informative show and not because of investment information. NBR really presents an intelligent and fact-based approach to business news which necessarily touches on many social and public policy issues.
Great reporting, the best journalism, and no obnoxious commercials. Both print and broadcast journalism are tanking hurting our democracy as we so desperately need an educated electorate to keep our democracy strong. So much of network and even other cable TV is dribble. This was the best most informative business show on TV, why would you ever take it off.
I have watched this show for years what a shame to see it go. What a shame.. Is this the beginning of the end in terms of unbiased, straight forward information that actually benefits the American Public…What a shame. This is just another nail in the coffin. My mother and father watched the program. My Dad, an immigrant with 6 years of education, was able to leave a substantial legacy by watching the program and my father-in-law and his wife watched in Florida and with us when they would visit.
They also did not leave this earth poor because they learned so much. It was the one TV program that was allowed during dinner. Our daughter grew up watching the program and her first job out of college was with an investment firm. Now her 4 older children ages 15 to 20 mention different companies as potential investments for us and are very much aware of the stock market.
Her oldest is majoring in economics in college and trades with an online trading company—all from the influence that their mother and we have been able to impart from NBR. We were hoping it would be around to help teach her younger children. It encourages saving and investing—a much needed attribute according to statistics—verses spending.
Canceling NBR is just an example of what is going on with public television. What an opportunity to gain an intelligent, grateful, moneyed audience!
This is the program that started me in investing. Truly a tragedy it will no longer be on. But kudos to Bill Griffith and Sue Herrera well done. I have been watching this show NBR since I saw the first showing with my father who is now deceased since I was 15 years old. My father taught me about the stock market and advised me to constantly educate yourself about many details of companies on the exchanges and study daily to understand the fundamentals of becoming a savvy investor.
I learned how to read financial statements before I graduated high school. After college I decided to follow my passion for cars and opened a body shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. The proceeds of my earnings went into the business but some invested in high quality dividend growing companies. I watched NBR nightly and took what I learned to even a higher level.
I sold my business in and I am a full time investor. I thank NBR for giving me all the tools and information through the years prior and post internet. If this show can continue in anyway I certainly will watch it each and every night. What a complete unbiased financial television program with fantastic industry guest speakers input.
Last night was one of the saddest evenings I have had due to I will miss this very special program. I have watching NBR since I saw the show. I looked forward it, and learning about the shock , and investments. I really will miss it. I have learned so much from the program. I want to thank NBR for all the information. What can I do now? My father is very disappointed and shocked. He watched it religiously every night and truly enjoyed the programming.
As to other avenues of information I say nonsense! Not everyone has access to the internet!! Or the computer finesse to retrieve the information not to mention the financial expertises offered here. If we get more programming to satisfy the character crowd of the times we live in…. It made the country if not the world a better place.
Thank you either way. I wish to thank all of the wonderful people before and behind the cameras of this wonderful show. Have been an avid and regular viewer since its inception, four decades ago. I am not at all surprised by the outpouring of sorrow shown in listener reactions and, although saddened, am proud to add my own.
Also hats off to the many professionals from Wall Street and elsewhere who I will also miss. I hope someone new will see the vacuum and take advantage of it. Again, my strongest Thank You for a great show. I seriously feel like I have lost my best friend.
NBR was an informative honest report of the current state of the economy. There was no bias, just straight forward content. I acquired a lot of knowledge from this half hour evening show. I am lost. You are not lost. They are lost, for now. Go to msn. I will really miss this show.
A daily recap that was very interesting, educational, and non-political. Great expert guests and a recap of the days events in the business world. Is there a comparable replacement? No, not yet. It was the BEST. This is total bullshit!
There is no reason to stop this essential reporting from being made public! It has to be a conspiracy to keep people ignorant!!! Seriously, what will take its place?!?! There needs to be an NBR2!!! There has to be something in the works!!! My husband and I are devastated by the loss of NBR, a trusted and well done program. We really depend on it for its extremely clear, concise and accurate information. Please bring this program back, it is one of the reasons we support PBS.
What a loss! I recently began viewing on YouTube. With such a large dedicated base of fans, someone should scoop it up and bring it back at PBS, YouTube, streaming channel, etc.
I too am devastated by the loss of NBR I join the many, many others who counted on NBR to bring some light and clarity into an otherwise confusing and murky world. Nonetheless what I want is to have the show brought back. I remember in the sad days when Paul Kangas left and a PBS station tried to redo the show — it was a semi disaster due to lack of TV ability but it did get fixed eventually. I certainly hope the same will happen this time.
Just keep up the pressure. Someone somewhere will get the message and organize a rebirth. I agree with the posts here. This is a disaster!
To whoever is responsible bite me! I happened to be watching in real time friday evening and at the end of the broadcast I was saddened and shocked to find I had just watched the last broadcast.
Oy vay. This show is greatly needed in a society that has the onus to be successfully financially savvy for its own wealth and retirement when pensions and social security are increasingly not viable options. Sad and frightening that quality print, broadcast and other media cannot survive and or is treated as suspect in a time when quality information is sorely needed.
The dumbing down of America is thundering across the country like an Express train picking up speed. Ignore at your own risk America. We now see the consequences of dumb downded on a daily basis. Shed an extra tear for auld lang syne this year.
I was beyond shocked tonight as I watched NBR announce the ending of its shows. I have learned so much from them, began to understand my place in the economy, how to invest…well so many things! Please someone out there figure out a way to continue with this quality program!! What is the reason to cancel NBR? So far…I have not been able to find out why?
This does not make business sense? NBR was the only one I could trust to report unbiased business news in 30 mins. BBC News is not a good replacement? And…like everyone else is stating — there is so much junk TV, and they do away with excellent TV… Why? This is a devastating loss to the public good.
Cannot imagine being without this source of business news in the future. Bill and Sue and all the glorious reporters will be missed. Hopefully all these talented people will find somewhere else that will use their talents as effectively as NBR did. Brian L. Roberts, age 60, whose compensation exceeds 18 million per annum. Write or call this idiot, and picket any one or all of his , employees, wherever you find them, until he brings back NBR.
Also, demand of your elected representatives that Comcast be regulated as the public utility it so obviously is, despite all the dirty money their lobbyists spread around in the Washington swamp to avoid regulation. Better yet, nationalize Comcast so that it will serve the public interest instead of the almighty dollar. Is that horrible junk what America will settle for? They have nothing to do with this decision and are likely just as outraged by it as those of us posting here.
The labor force is as much a victim of the greed and avarice of these corporate bastards who care nothing about the welfare of the general public and only look to infinitely enrich themselves.
The US is entering a period of class warfare pure and simple. Know your enemy. Essentially it is the aggregate of intangible assets an organization builds up over time through successful, prudent actions. It is difficult to identify and build up, much less to convince accounting types to include in their sacrosanct financial statements. The suits at the top are blinded by dollar signs. Greed and avarice prevails. A bad idea by all parties.
That show was needed more than ever. I guess they did not like that we getting the show for free over the airwaves. Good point. Cable providers from all over the country probably pressured Comcast to drop the free broadcast so that people would be persuaded to pay for a cable package to watch CNBC or other cable news networks instead. Comcast happily obliged. Life in evil Corporate America. Please do not shutdown it down, maybe Ads can help your business. Maybe you can sell it to another party, maybe a hedge fund?
Take a pulse, think about it. I am an immigrant and have big load of worries. I watched NBR every evening just to calm down and feel that everything will be alright.
That is taken away from me. Totally agree. I just got myself out of a very toxic work environment last year. NBR was one of the things that kept me from being suicidal during that horrible time. I also watched it to be informed and uplifted. So much TV just depresses me. This was a quality show with excellent journalists. Such a disappointment. I depended on this show each day, and really I am speechless. This was high quality unbiased reporting.
There was no agenda. This was good stuff. I am at a loss, shaken, and disappointed. NBR was my primary source of news. Are there any alternatives? Daily podcasts? Something short and sweet, trustable and to the point Like NBR was? Just tried to tune in to NBR and then find out it has been cancelled- what a loss of business news and comment for the viewers of PBS. I totally relied on the NBR for my business news and insight. Very poor CNBC judgement. It was a very positive show and gave me hope for the future.
I loved hearing the theme song and it gave me great comfort to have it on. I loved all the correspondents, like Ylan, and hosts bill and sue, and phill before that. If anyone out there can do something: Please bring this show back if possible.
Sell the show to a streaming service! Completely devastated. No warning whatsoever. No chance to rally support. Bring NBR back!
I guess quality no longer sells. I want the nightly business report back. The information was rock solid and always up to date. There is a hole in my heart that is not going away. Michael C. Cancelling NBR did a real blow to the economic education in this country.
Sorry to see it go and feel sorry for Sue, Paul and all the rest. Hope something as good or better replaces it Louis Rukeyser is probably turning over in his grave. Why in the world would you cancel something so important and keeps us informed as the Nightly Business Report? The format was so fine and of such high quality. Do not give this program up — it is too excellent to let it go. Instead, you have brought in a show that is meaningless. Our case is with the PBS executives that played us for fools.
Lets get real. All the major brokerages capitalized on the k tax code. NBR commentators and corporate guests opened the eyes to novice investors and bingo the small investors era got its wind. The same corporate giants — give back and fund a similar show. PBS blew it. They need to lose a significant number of subscribers to get a wake-up call. I recorded it daily for a later viewing. So disappointed, sad, to see it go, feels like I lost a friend.
I recommended it to all my investment friends. Hope Bill, Sue and everyone find another place to thrive. Not having NBR is a big loss and the announcement was quite a surprise. I have benefited from watching this informative show. I can only hope it will be brought back in some form. I taped NBR tonight and found out that it has been permanently canceled. How sad. I am a comcast customer. I will reconsider to still do any business with them. With all the money they are making,it is not enough.
They are trying to destroy PBS. We have watched this show starting Very sad it ended last Friday. I hope PBS can restart this show again soooooooon. We are shocked and saddened to found out tonight that this program has permanently canceled. I cut my journalistic teeth covering agri-business in California. What the show will look like, and who will helm its microphones and stock tickers, remains unknown. I am optimistic there will be a solid financial news show to replace NBR.
There is definitely space for it on public television, and an audience appetite for plain-talk business coverage. We need more shows like NBR, not fewer. Since , the Nightly Business Report was the decidedly unsexy character in the financial news genre of television. The public broadcasting pioneer — the first financial news show on television — wore its sober, straight-shooting approach on its sleeve.
Confusion, But the Good Kind The show had been on public television for so long that many in its strong audience came to believe it was produced and delivered by the Public Broadcasting Service.
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