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Charlie Gasparino said to ditch CNBC for Fox Business

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CNBC reporter Charlie Gasparino reportedly is planning to leave for Fox Business Network.

From TVNewser:

Gasparino, who has broken some of the biggest financial news stories both before and during this current crisis, hasn’t appeared on CNBC for several weeks. He’s also had some publicized on-air dust-ups with his CNBC colleagues, including Dennis Kneale and former CNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan. Gasparino made an appearance on Fox News a few months ago promoting his new book ‘The Sellout.’ We hear Gasparino’s deal is not yet signed. Still, an official announcement is expected sometime this week.

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Gasparino, who came to CNBC from Newsweek (and before that, the Wall Street Journal), also writes for the Daily Beast, the New York Post, Forbes and others.

Asked by New York magazine in 2008 to describe his typical day, Gasparino said: ‘Scream at sources to get stories, scream at producers to put them on CNBC, and then scream at editors to get more time for stories that I’m writing.’ Sounds like Chaz, all right.

Gasparino would be a big catch for Fox Business, which has had an uphill struggle since its launch two years ago -- when CEO Roger Ailes promised nothing less than a business TV ‘revolution.’ One handicap is that Fox hasn’t been able to make extensive use of Rupert Murdoch‘s prime business-news property, the Wall Street Journal, because CNBC has an exclusive contract with the Journal until 2012.

For more on the challenge Fox faces in trying to topple CNBC from its TV business-news ratings perch, see Matt Pressman’s November piece in Vanity Fair, ‘Is Fox Business Network a Lost Cause?’

-- Tom Petruno

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