CNBC’s Madoff special sets records…
CNBC is noting that last night’s Bernie Maddoff special set a record for the network…
The premiere of CNBC’s “Scam of the Century? Bernie Madoff & The $50 Billion Heist” last night at 9 PM ET earned 243,000 adults 25-54 and 670,000 total viewers. This was CNBC’s highest rated documentary premiere telecast EVER in both adults 25-54 and total viewers.
The special, anchored by CNBC’s David Faber and including reporting by Faber and reports by Charlie Gasparino, Mary Thompson, Melissa Lee and Scott Cohn, will be telecast Sunday, Dec. 21 at 9 PM, Monday, Dec. 22 at 9 PM and 1 AM ET and Wed., Dec. 24 at 4 PM ET.
December 19, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I watched the special and was very disappointed. No news, no uncovering of any new information and no investigation of who facilitated or may be associated with the fraud. Who were his business associates? Who was his circle of friends? No facts. No specifics and no questions asked. A total waste of my time. My local two bit newspaper gave me more facts. A lost opportunity for CNBC unless you like seeing victims wallowing in their wealth. My son’s high school newspaper would have delved deeper into that cabal than CNBC did.
December 20, 2008 at 6:56 am
From the WP
“The facts should have been enough to make anyone suspicious. Madoff’s accounts were only perfunctorily audited, and his statements were printed with a dot-matrix printer on lightweight copier paper. Above all, his business returns were consistently good — too good — and he never reported a down month, let alone a down quarter or year. Let’s be honest; such oddities had to have set off alarm bells”‘
CNBC did nothing to address or report on this and did not ask the question or do any reporting on who got out first?”Again the grade for this special was an F
I still can’t beleive how poor this special was!