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To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (172)	2/13/2013 12:53:34 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26769

Thanks for the compliment. I noted your comments on SPY and thought about Don's comments on a Russel index investment on VLNC board. Do you have an opinion on going with a SnP ETF or Russell small cap ETF. I've always believed the small caps get better returns % wise. Yes, the core portfolios in my newsletter have an index fund (or its ETF equivalent) that covers the small caps and it has indeed helped my returns. Small caps are more volatile so I like to break up the market into components to get more opportunities to rebalance ... usually means taking profits in small caps when markets are up and buying them when the markets are down in a larger percentage than the base S&P500/SPY.

To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (172)	2/21/2013 9:19:16 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Respond to of 26769

CNBC to Purchase ‘Nightly Business Report’ This is sad news as I enjoy this show in its present format for a good summary of the days financial news without CNBC asswipes trying to sell me action alerts subscriptions or androgel or the BS idea you can get rich with options. MEDIA DECODER February 21, 2013, 4:22 pm CNBC to Purchase ‘Nightly Business Report’ “Nightly Business Report,” the pioneer public television series that has struggled in recent years, is getting a new, deep-pocketed commercial owner, the 24-hour business cable channel CNBC, a unit of Comcast’s NBCUniversal. CNBC announced on Thursday that it would buy the rights to the show, available in 96 percent of television homes in the United States, from the investment firm Atalaya Capital Management for an undisclosed price. CNBC will begin producing “Nightly Business Report” from its New Jersey headquarters on March 4. The program now originates in Miami, with bureaus in New York and Washington. The format will remain the same. Tyler Mathisen of CNBC will anchor with Susie Gharib, the current co-anchor, who is under contract through 2013. The co-anchor Tom Hudson and the remaining staff of 18 will leave. In a telephone interview, Rick Schneider, president of the Miami public station WPBT, where the show is based, called the new owners “a good thing for the program and for the public television system.” Not only will the show survive, but “it will likely be enhanced,” he said. “ ‘N.B.R.’ has always lacked having a major news-gathering organization behind it.” The purchase is the show’s third change of hands in less than three years. In August 2010, Mykalai Kontilai, an entrepreneur and former mixed martial arts manager, bought it from WPBT, which founded the show in 1979 before the era of 24-hour cable business news. Atalaya Capital Management, Mr. Kontilai’s backer, took over in November 2011, after few of Mr. Kontilai’s ambitious expansion plans were achieved. In a telephone interview, Nikhil Deogun, CNBC’s senior vice president and editor in chief for business news, said the show’s audience “has very little duplication, as best we can tell” with the CNBC audience. He said it would provide additional opportunities for CNBC journalists. PBS withdrew its financial support of “Nightly Business Report” in 2011 and stopped distributing it. American Public Television now distributes the show to 180 stations and will continue to do so. Ratings have drifted lower and the show’s sole financial underwriter, Franklin Templeton Investments, withdrew in August, leading to layoffs and the closing of the Chicago bureau. In a memorandum to the staff on Thursday, Mr. Schneider wrote, “It has been clear for months, even years, that the existing business model for ‘N.B.R.’ was unsustainable as national production underwriting dried up.” Mr. Deogun said CNBC would seek new underwriters, adding that NBCUniversal “has a great sales team.” mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com