Bill Griffeth is an American financial journalist from CNBC

CNBC

CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...

, the cable network he has been with since 1991.

Journalism career

Prior to joining CNBC, Griffeth was part of the production team that started the Financial News Network

Financial News Network

The Financial News Network was a television network that operated throughout the United States during the 1980s.-Founding:Financial News Network was founded in 1981 by two men: Rodney Buchser, who had been general manager of KWHY, Channel 22 in Los Angeles and Glenn Taylor. The concept originated...

 in 1981. During his 10 years there he was nominated for a CableACE award as best news anchor for his work anchoring FNN's coverage of the 1987 stock market crash.

Griffeth joined CNBC in 1991, when NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 purchased FNN and merged it with CNBC. He has anchored a number of programs for CNBC, including Power Lunch

Power Lunch

Power Lunch is a television business news program on CNBC, airing between 1:00pm and 2:00pm Eastern Time. It is presented by Tyler Mathisen, Sue Herera, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Simon Hobbs will fill in on occasion. Bill Griffeth anchored the program alone from 1996 to 2002...

 (Monday-Friday, 12-2pm ET), which he co-anchored with Sue Herera

Sue Herera

Sue Herera is a television reporter for the CNBC financial television network. Herera earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Northridge in 1980 along with her co-anchor Bill Griffeth...

. He garnered 6 more CableACE nominations along the way.

On November 19, 2009, CNBC president Mark Hoffman announced in an email to the staff that Griffeth would be taking a one-year leave of absence from the cable channel. His last day, at least for the next year, was Wednesday, November 25 2009.
On January 3, 2011, Griffeth returned to CNBC to co-anchor the Closing Bell (Monday-Friday, 3-4pm ET).

Host shows

• Closing Bell
  Closing Bell
  Closing Bell can refer to two CNBC programs, the original Closing Bell on CNBC , and European Closing Bell on CNBC Europe.-About the show:...
  
   (2011-present)
• Power Lunch
  Power Lunch
  Power Lunch is a television business news program on CNBC, airing between 1:00pm and 2:00pm Eastern Time. It is presented by Tyler Mathisen, Sue Herera, and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Simon Hobbs will fill in on occasion. Bill Griffeth anchored the program alone from 1996 to 2002...
  
   (1996–2009)
• The Edge
  The Edge (CNBC)
  The Edge was an evening business news talk show aired weekdays on CNBC from October 6, 1997 to February 1, 2002.The Edge works to give investors a competitive "edge" by tracking emerging trends in business and the financial markets, delving into new cutting "edge" products and technologies, moving...
  
   (1999-March 2000)
• Market Wrap
  Market Wrap
  Market Wrap is a show on CNBC that aired between 4pm and 6pm ET, and it was replaced by Closing Bell on Feb 4, 2002.was premiered in 1989 as Market Wrap-Up was Anchored by Bill Griffeth and others...
  
   (1991–2002)
• Strictly Business
• The Money Club
  The Money Club
  The Money Club was a business news talk show aired weekdays from 7 to 7:30 PM ET on CNBC until circa 1997. Hosted by Brenda Buttner.The Money Club was a personal finance show focused on making and saving money...
  
  

Books

Griffeth has also written three books to date, two on finances: Bill Griffeth's Ten Steps to Financial Prosperity (Warner Books), which was published in 1994, and The Mutual Fund Masters (McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

), which was published in 1995. Both books were Fortune Book Club main selections. His third book is "By Faith Alone: One Family's Epic Journey Through American Protestantism" (Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

), which was published in 2007 and deals with his family history.

Honours

Along with his co-anchor Sue Herera, Griffeth received his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism in 1980 from California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....

. In 2000, CSUN honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award.