Managing Asia
| CNBC Asia | |
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| Launched | June 20, 1995 |
| Owned by | NBCUniversal |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV 16:9/4:3) |
| Slogan | "First in Business Worldwide" |
| Country | Asia |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Asia Australia / New Zealand |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
| Replaced | Asia Business News |
| Sister channel(s) |
E! Diva Universal Golf Channel Style Network DreamWorks Channel Euronews CNBC World |
| Website | Official website |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| Foxtel (Australia) | Channel 644 |
| Astro (Malaysia) | Channel 518 |
| TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 781 |
| Indovision (Indonesia) | Channel 337 |
| Hot Bird | 11127 v SR 27500 |
| SKY Network Television (New Zealand) | Channel 091 |
| Cignal (Philippines) | Channel 132 (SD) |
| Cable | |
| StarHub TV (Singapore) | Channel 707 |
| Cable TV Hong Kong (Hong Kong) | Channel 78 |
| Now TV (Hong Kong TV channel) (Hong Kong) | Channel 319 |
| Foxtel (Australia) | Channel 644 |
| SkyCable (Philippines) | Channel 111 (Digital) |
| Destiny Cable (Philippines) | Channel 26 (Analog) Channel 111 (Digital) |
| TrueVisions (Thailand) | Channel 781 |
| First Media (Indonesia) | Channel 238 |
| (Macau) | Channel 810 |
| Dialog TV (Sri Lanka) | Channel 41 |
| IPTV | |
| Chunghwa Telecom MOD (Taiwan) | Channel 154 |
| Now TV (Hong Kong) | Channel 319 |
| CNBC Plus (USA) | (US$9.95/month or US$99.95/year) |
| CNBC.com free view (U.S.) | (Mondays 6AM to 4PM SIN/HK/TWN time) |
| HiNet HiChannel (Taiwan) | Free 300K Paid 600K or 1200K (NT$30/month, circa US$1, Taiwan only) |
| Fetch TV (Australia) | Channel 181 (HD) |
| CHT MOD (Taiwan) | Channel 154 |
| Singtel TV (Singapore) | Channel 173 |
CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC). Its programmes originate from Singapore, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul, Noida.
CNBC Asia was launched on 20 June 1995 along with sister channel NBC Asia. It was originally based in Hong Kong. Anchors such as Rico Hizon, Bernard Lo, Lorraine Hahn, Dalton Tanonaka and Bill Hartley were part of the original CNBC Asia team. It adopted similar programmes from its US counterpart like The Money Wheel and Business Tonight and had a few of its own programmes as well. In addition, the channel has broadcast programmes from CNBC US and CNBC Europe on a live and repeat basis.
In December 1997, Dow Jones & Company and NBC announced the merger of their international business news channels. This resulted in a merger of CNBC Asia with Dow Jones' Asia Business News (ABN), and likewise of CNBC Europe with European Business News. The merged channel launched on 1 February 1998 and was named CNBC Asia Business News but it was simply referred to as CNBC Asia in mid-1998. As a result of the merger, there were massive employee lay-offs and programme cancellations at CNBC's Asia original headquarters in Hong Kong but Rico Hizon, Geoff Cutmore and Bernard Lo joined the newly merged channel whose operations have been based in Singapore ever since. Programmes and personalities came mostly from ABN and were for the most part retained in their original form (i.e., title and graphics scheme). CNBC Asia also mainly used ABN's own graphics scheme rather than adopt those in use by CNBC US and CNBC Europe. In addition, there was no regional ticker for most audiences until 26 October 1998 and simulcasts of US and European programmes were very limited.
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