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To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3570)	8/20/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: R.E.B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Gary, I agree with your assessment. The buy/sell/hold crap is worthless. Also, the quality of the "guests" during the mid-day to close of the market is lame. Everyone has an opinion and no one is held accountable. You can say virtually anything on CNBC and you will be called back as a guest time and time again even if you're dead wrong, which most of them seem to be. Squawk Box is commercial saturated.... they will come back from a commercial and talk for 15 SECONDS and break for another commercial. The quality there is going down hill and the credibility is marginable in my view. You could tape 10 shows of squawk box and play the appropriate show depending on the close the day before and no one would know that it was a previously taped show. I think we need some new ideas for the show.

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3570)	8/23/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: capitalistbeatnik	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Great assessment. They could use MSNBC's slot for the second network. I too liked FNN better. Squawk Box is great but if you're on the West Coast, too bad. BTW, does anyone find the new PeopleSoft commercials the worst ever on CNBC? I think Simon Weisenthal is looking for that snotty bearded pretentious wussmeister for a War Crimes tribunal.

To: Gary M. Reed who wrote (3570)	10/26/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Yogizuna	Respond to of 17683

Gary, Sorry to get back to you so late on your well written note to me. (when SI changed the format, I missed some notes because I did'nt scroll down all the way -- DUH! :)Basically I agree with you, and having two different CNBC channels, one for the "financially challenged", and another for folks like you and the great "Yogizuna" <g>, perhaps with a fee charged for the privilege, would be most welcome relief! I for one would certainly pay for the pleasure of not being annoyed with the basic stuff over and over, to the point where I'm "forced" to turn down the volume control... Yogi