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Closing Bell can refer to two CNBC programs, the original Closing Bell on 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...

(which debuted on February 4, 2002), and European Closing Bell
European Closing Bell
European Closing Bell is a television programme aired on business news channel CNBC Europe from 5pm to 6pm CET , and from 11am to 12pm on CNBC World in the United States. The programme is presented from London by Guy Johnson and Louisa Bojesen...

on CNBC Europe

CNBC Europe

CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...

About the show

The CNBC US program Closing Bell airs on CNBC between 3pm and 5pm, Eastern Time

North American Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

. The program is dual-anchored by Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo is an American television journalist, magazine columnist and author of three books. Bartiromo is a native of New York and attended New York University. She worked at CNN for five years before joining CNBC television...

and Bill Griffeth

Bill Griffeth

Bill Griffeth is an American financial journalist from CNBC, 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 in 1981...

(at the NYSE

New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...

) between 3-4pm. If Maria Bartiromo is out, the show is anchored by a substitute host. They include Melissa Francis, Melissa Lee

Melissa Lee (journalist)

Melissa Lee is a Chinese American reporter and news anchor for CNBC. Since January 2009 she has occasionally hosted Closing Bell when Maria Bartiromo is unavailable...

and Trish Regan

Trish Regan

Trish Ann Regan is an American television host, Emmy nominated investigative journalist, financial expert and author...

. During the 4-5pm ET block, Maria anchors solo (as per her contract). Tyler Mathisen

Tyler Mathisen

Tyler Mathisen is now Managing Editor of CNBC Business News and the host of High Net Worth. He was originally the co-anchor of such programs as Closing Bell and Business Center before being promoted to the role of Managing Editor...

was the former co-anchor from 3-4pm ET (originally from 4-5pm ET), until he was promoted to an off-camera job (CNBC managing editor) in 2005. That same year, Dylan Ratigan

Dylan Ratigan

Dylan Jason Ratigan is an American television host primarily covering financial markets, the global economy, and politics. He is host of The Dylan Ratigan Show which airs weekday afternoons on MSNBC. He is also a frequent contributor on The Huffington Post.- Early life :Ratigan was born in the...

took over the 3-4pm ET co-anchoring duties until his departure from the network in March 2009. Starting January 2011, Bill Griffeth

Bill Griffeth

became co-anchor after co-anchoring 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...

since 1996-2009 and taking a 1 year leave of absence.

The program covers the last hour of trading in the US stock markets, covering the closing bells of the NYSE and NASDAQ Stock Market

NASDAQ

The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...

at 4pm ET. Bob Pisani

Bob Pisani

Robert Pisani has been a news correspondent for financial news network CNBC since 1990. Pisani largely covered the real estate industry and corporate management until 1997. Since then he has reported live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, surrounded by the flurry of floor traders doing...

provides live reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Scott Wapner provides live reports from the NASDAQ. Like the "Opening Bell Countdown" segment on Squawk on the Street
Squawk on the Street
Squawk on the Street, which debuted on December 19, 2005, is a business show on CNBC that follows the first 90 minutes of trading on Wall Street in the United States....

(which takes viewers to the opening bell), the "Closing Countdown" segment on this program (which takes viewers to the closing bell) also uses a countdown clock on the lower right of the screen (where the network bug usually appears).

After 4pm ET, there is analysis of the day's winners and losers, company results that are issued after the close of trade, and other business news.

Worldwide Closing Bell

Around CNBC's global branches, there are many counterparts of Closing Bell in the world:

Channel	Program	Still Run?	Replacement
CNBC Europe CNBC Europe CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...	European Closing Bell European Closing Bell European Closing Bell is a television programme aired on business news channel CNBC Europe from 5pm to 6pm CET , and from 11am to 12pm on CNBC World in the United States. The programme is presented from London by Guy Johnson and Louisa Bojesen...	(2003-06-02—present)	N/A
	*Frankfurt Closing Bell*	(2003-06-02—2004-09-10)	Europe Tonight Europe Tonight Europe Tonight is an evening television business news programme which was broadcast on CNBC Europe from 2004 to 2009. The programme was most recently presented by Guy Johnson and Anna Edwards.-History:...
CNBC-e CNBC-e CNBC-e is a hybrid business/financial and entertainment channel operated in Turkey by CNBC Europe and the NTV Group.The channel shares its name with a co-owned magazine about CNBC-e....	*Son Baskı*	(2004—present)	N/A
CNBC-TV18 CNBC-TV18 CNBC-TV18 is a business news channel broadcast in India based in Mumbai. The channel was launched in India on December 7, 1999. It was the first business news channel launched in India and still the leads that genre....	*Closing Bell*	(2004—present)	N/A
Nikkei CNBC Nikkei CNBC Nikkei CNBC is a business and financial news television channel broadcast in Japan. It is owned primarily by CNBC Asia and Japanese media group Nihon Keizai Shimbun and TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation.- Current shows :...	*Nikkei CNBC Closing Bell*	(2004—present)	N/A
Class-CNBC	*Linea Mercati Pomeriggio (European close)*	(?—present)	N/A
Class-CNBC	*Linea Mercati Notte (US close)*	(?—present)	N/A
CNBC Arabiya CNBC Arabiya CNBC Arabiya is the only 24-hour Arabic language financial and business information television channel. It covers regional and international affairs from an Arab economic perspective....	*Jalsat Al Amal*	(2003—present)	N/A
SBS-CNBC SBS-CNBC -History:On August 13, 2009, SBS took over all stocks of a sports TV channel Xports, which were shared by CJ Media and IB Sports . After a partnership agreement with CNBC which taken on October 22, 2009, Xports was shut down and replaced by SBS-CNBC on December 28, 2009...	*Closing Bell*	(2009—present)	N/A

As the major Asian markets all close at different times, there is no "Asian Closing Bell". The equivalent programme is Worldwide Exchange
Worldwide Exchange
Worldwide Exchange is a television business news program on CNBC channels around the world. It is broadcast live from studios on three continents. The global program is anchored by Ross Westgate in London, Christine Tan in Singapore and various anchors in New York...

, which replaced Asia Market Wrap
Asia Market Wrap
Asia Market Wrap is a business news programme aired on CNBC Asia between1600-1800 Asia Market Wrap is a business news programme aired on CNBC Asia between1600-1800 Asia Market Wrap is a business news programme aired on CNBC Asia between1600-1800 (Hong Kong/Singapore/Taiwan time, until December...

on 2005-12-19.

Logos

The current Closing Bell logo, had a similar resemblance to the Morning Call
Morning Call (CNBC)
The Call was an American TV business program on CNBC, aired from 11AM to 12 noon ET weekdays. Previous programs shown in the same time slot were The Money Wheel with Ted David and Martha MacCallum and Market Watch and Morning Call....

logo (used from 2005-12-19 to 2007-08-07), as both of those respective programmes used identical opening titles. The aforementioned Morning Call logo was dropped entirely on 2007-08-08 as that program was renamed, The Call.

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About the show

Worldwide Closing Bell

Logos

See also

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