CNBC’s Monthly Newsmag Debuts Dec. 6

The AP’s David Bauder examines CNBC’s ratings-driven attraction to long-form programming and shares a couple details about the net’s new project:

Josh Howard “is also in charge of CNBC’s newsmagazine, which doesn’t have a title yet but is scheduled to debut Dec. 6. It’s modeled after HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ in having one fresh episode each month that is repeated multiple times.

The newsmagazine will have three stories a month, a mixture of profiles, investigative pieces and features.” More…

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