Jason Farkas will join Bloomberg TV as a senior broadcast producer in January. His hire was announced today by Ted Fine, Bloomberg’s executive producer for afternoons.

Farkas will focus on helping the “Street Smart” editorial team ahead of the program’s re-launch on January 9. Like newly-named anchor Trish Reagan, Farkas joins the network from CNBC, where he was senior producer of “SportsBiz” and “Trading the Globe.”

Farkas will be deputy to Fine for Bloomberg TV’s afternoon programming. He starts January 3.

The full memo from Fine is after the jump.

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This week Bloomberg TV launched a new show based out of San Francisco focusing exclusively on the technology business, “Bloomberg West.”

Today the show has a pretty good get, as Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts will appear live on the program. Roberts will be up against one of the biggest shows on the financial channel his company owns, CNBC, in the form of “Mad Money.”

Former CNN producer Ted Fine is the executive producer of the show, and told Beet.tv:

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Ted Fine, a senior producer at CNN for “Anderson Cooper 360″ and “Campbell Brown,” is heading to Bloomberg TV. He has been brought on as Executive Producer for afternoons starting December 7th. He will join Mark White and Maia Samuel who manage mornings and evenings, respectively.

In an email to staff, head of U.S. television operations David Rhodes wrote: “I’m sure the whole afternoon group will enjoy working with Ted.”