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The Call was an American TV business program 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...

, aired from 11AM to 12 noon ET weekdays. Previous programs shown in the same time slot were The Money Wheel
The Money Wheel
The Money Wheel was a business news television program aired on weekdays on the CNBC network from its inception in 1989 until 1998. Initially, The Money Wheel covered almost all of the channel's business day hours, airing continuously from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET each day. The show's hours were...

with Ted David

Ted David

Ted David, an American financial journalist, recently has been heard as a free-lance anchor on New York's all news station 1010 WINS. He continues to be seen as a freelance anchor on Cablevision's News12 Long Island...

and Martha MacCallum

Martha MacCallum

Martha MacCallum is an American news anchor on the Fox News Channel. She joined the network in 2004, and is based in the New York City bureau. She previously hosted The Live Desk with Trace Gallagher at 1:00 p.m. ET. Currently, she co-hosts with Bill Hemmer America's Newsroom at 9:00 a.m...

and Market Watch
Market Watch
Market Watch is a show on CNBC that aired from 10AM to 12noon ET, hosted by Martha MacCallum and Tyler Mathisen , and Bob Sellers and Consuelo Mack . It was replaced by Midday Call on Feb 4, 2002....

and Morning Call.

The Call offered a clear focus on real-time market coverage at the heart of the trading day.

About the program

Until July 19, 2007, CNBC aired Morning Call from 10AM to 12 noon ET weekdays. The next day, CNBC replaced the first hour of the two-hour program with an expanded 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....

, due in part to Liz Claman

Liz Claman

Elizabeth Kate "Liz" Claman is the anchor of the Fox Business Network show Countdown to the Closing Bell at 3pm ET and co-anchor at 2pm ET and 4pm ET of Fox Business on the Fox Business Network alongside co-anchor David Asman. She was previously the co-anchor of the CNBC morning television...

's departure from the network (she joined the Fox Business Network

Fox Business Network

Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...

three months later). The program was completely revamped on July 23, 2007 and re-named The Call on August 7, 2007, with 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...

and Trish Regan

Trish Regan

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

serving as interim anchors. Ratigan (live from the New York Stock Exchange

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...

), Regan and Melissa Francis were appointed permanent co-anchors as of October 8, 2007. In addition to the aforementioned July 2007 revamp, the anchors were joined on set by a guest contributor, very similar to Squawk Box
Squawk Box
Squawk Box is a business news television program which airs at breakfast time on the CNBC network. The program is currently co-hosted by Joe Kernen, Rebecca Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Since debuting in 1995, the show has spawned a number of versions across CNBC's international channels, many of...

.

Dylan Ratigan left The Call in late 2008 as he was replaced with Larry Kudlow. Melissa Francis and Trish Regan both remained on the program, with Francis anchoring alongside Kudlow at the network's Englewood Cliffs studio and Regan anchoring at the NYSE. Ratigan ultimately left CNBC altogether in March 2009. Trish Regan departed from CNBC 2 years later (March 2011). Amanda Drury

Amanda Drury

Amanda Drury is a journalist and news anchor for CNBC, currently based in Manhattan, New York. She has appeared on various CNBC shows as an expert in finance and business. Previously based in CNBC Asia’s headquarters in Singapore and then in Sydney, Drury relocated to CNBC's global headquarters...

(formerly of CNBC Asia

CNBC Asia

CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

) replaced Regan as co-host until she left for Street Signs
Street Signs
Street Signs is an American television business news program that airs on CNBC at 2:00pm ET.-About the show:It was originally a two-hour program that aired on CNBC from 1996 to 2002-02-01. It was cancelled effective 2002-02-04 and Power Lunch occupied its vacated slot as a result of CNBC's...

in mid-2011.

Regular reporters included 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...

(NYSE), Scott Wapner (NASDAQ

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...

), Sharon Epperson

Sharon Epperson

Sharon Epperson is a correspondent for CNBC covering the commodity markets and personal finance. She is currently stationed at the New York Mercantile Exchange covering the energy markets on a daily basis. Epperson, the daughter of Dr. David E. Epperson and Ceceila T...

(NYMEX), Rick Santelli

Rick Santelli

Rick Santelli is an American on-air editor for the CNBC Business News network. He joined CNBC as an on-air editor on June 14, 1999, reporting primarily from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was formerly the vice president for an institutional trading and hedge fund account for...

(Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

), Steve Liesman

Steve Liesman

Steve Liesman is the senior economics reporter for the cable financial television channel CNBC. He is known for appearing on the CNBC programs Squawk Box and other business related topics on CNBC and NBC and using a paper "easel" while explaining the state of the United States economy.Liesman is an...

, David Faber

David Faber (CNBC)

David H. Faber is a financial journalist and market news analyst for the television cable network CNBC. He is currently the co-host of CNBC's The Strategy Session, and appears on the show Squawk on the Street.-Career:...

and Brian Shactman

Brian Shactman

Brian A. Shactman is an American journalist for CNBC, a United States business channel he joined in June 2007 as a general assignment reporter and substitute anchor for CNBC's Business Day Programming. He is now a co-anchor on Worldwide Exchange along with CNBC Europe's Ross Westgate in London and...

Segments

Here's The Call On...: The appropriately-titled first segment of the show (discontinued since October 2007) looks at the morning's business headlines.
The Bond Report: Rick Santelli reports from Chicago with a look at the US Bond market.
Your Best Trades Now: A guest joins the show with the anchors and a guest contributor to talk about what his/her best stock picks are right now.
Stocks To Watch: In this segment, we look at the US stocks making news.
MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

News Update: News headlines from MSNBC. Seen shortly after the bottom of the hour.
2 Hours Into the Trading Day...: An update on the U.S. stock markets after the first 2 hours of trading. Seen at the start of the program's second half-hour.
CNBC.com Blog Watch: Seen during the program's second half-hour with a look at the key business stories blogged by CNBC reporters, such as Jim Goldman ("Tech Check"), Mike Huckman ("Pharma's Market"), Diana Olick ("Realty Check") and Darren Rovell
Darren Rovell
Darren Rovell is a sports business reporter who joined the financial news channel CNBC in 2006.- Education :Rovell graduated from Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights, NY in 1996....

("Sports Biz").
The Journal Report: Seen on Mondays with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

. This segment was discontinued at the end of 2007.
Seidman Speaks: CNBC's chief commentator Bill Seidman made guest appearances and answered viewers' Email questions. This segment was seen on Thursdays, but was discontinued after Seidman's death in 2009.
Mutual Fund
Mutual fund
A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities.- Overview :...

Pick and Pan of the Week: Seen on Fridays with Christine Benz of Morningstar
Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is an independent investment research company based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.-Businesses:Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offers an extensive line of products and services for...

.
West Coast Call: A guest from the West Coast joins the program, similar to the "West Coast Wake Up" segment on Squawk on the Street.
The Last Call: The last segment of the program.

Quote

"America is open for business coast-to-coast." This was the opening phrase used at the start of the show just before the opening title sequence.

CNBC Asia

On June 14, 2010, CNBC Asia debuted their own version of The Call. That program is anchored by Karen Tso

Karen Tso

Karen Tso is an Australian television journalist and anchor at CNBC Asia.Tso began her career as a general news reporter for the AAP after graduating with a commerce degree from Griffith University in Queensland. She also studied for a Masters In Journalism at both the University of Westminster in...

in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

and Bernard Lo

Bernard Lo

-Biography:Bernard Lo is a Hong Kong-based anchor for CNBC. Prior to that he was a Hong Kong-based anchor at Bloomberg Television since 2004. He also hosted the chat show Asia Confidential with Bernie Lo. He has interviewed Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Richard Branson amongst...

in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

Cancellation

The US version of The Call was cancelled October 14, 2011 and was replaced 3 days later by the newly-expanded 3rd hour of 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....

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About the program

Segments

Quote

CNBC Asia

Cancellation

See also