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Mad Money is an American finance television program hosted by Jim Cramer that began airing on CNBC on March 14, 2005. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in public company stocks. Mad Money replaced Bullseye, a news and finance program, taking its 6 p.m. Eastern Time slot.
Cramer was born in 1955 in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (a suburb of Philadelphia), to Jewish parents. [1] [4] [5] Cramer's mother, Louise A. Cramer (1928–1985), was an artist.. Cramer's father, N. Ken Cramer (1922–2014), owned International Packaging Products, a Philadelphia-based company that sold wrapping paper, boxes, and bags to retailers and restaur
CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and business news television channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast. It was originally established on April 17, 1989 by a joint venture of NBC and Cablevision as the Consumer News and Business Channel. [1] [2]
Fast Money: 30 minutes (Fridays with commercials) 60 minutes (Mon–Thurs with commercials) Weekdays 5:00pm ET/2:00pm PT Melissa Lee: June 21, 2006 Mad Money: 60 minutes (with commercials) 6:00pm ET/3:00pm PT Jim Cramer: March 14, 2005 CNN: The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer: 6:00pm ET/2:00pm PT Wolf Blitzer: August 8, 2005 Erin Burnett OutFront
Carl Quintanilla (previously co-anchor of Squawk Box), Melissa Lee (anchor of Fast Money and Options Action) and Simon Hobbs (previously a presenter on CNBC Europe) were appointed as the new anchor team. Mad Money host Jim Cramer joined Quintanilla and Lee as a contributor for the first hour, with Hobbs joining Quintanilla and Lee as a third ...
The success of Mad Money prompted CNBC to look to replicate that success with another show. [5] Fast Money was created by Dylan Ratigan and Susan Krakower, Vice President of Strategic Programming and Development, [6] as a spin off from a weekly segment that first aired in the May 2006 episodes of On the Money.
Late-night television is the general term for television programs produced for broadcast during the late evening and overnight hours—most commonly shown after, if not in competition with, local late-evening newscasts; programs that have been showcased in the daypart historically (though not necessarily exclusively) encompassed a particular genre of programming that falls somewhere between a ...
Melissa Lee is a reporter, journalist, and news anchor for CNBC.Since January 2009, she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when the anchor is unavailable. She has also hosted Options Action, and is now the host of CNBC's 5pm ET daily show Fast Money.