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**CNBC Asia** is a business news television channel owned by NBC. It is the Asian service of CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel). Its programmes originate from Singapore. It was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening breakfast in Singapore on 20 June 1995 at 6:00am SST based in Singapore and it operated from CNBC Asia's head office and headquarters in Singapore. Currently, it provides business and market information to 385 million people globally.

## History

CNBC Asia was officially opened by President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong on 20 June 1995 at 6:00am SST along with sister channel NBC Asia. Anchors such as Rico Hizon, Bernard Lo, Lorraine Hahn, Sumire Sugimoto, Dalton Tanonaka and Bill Hartley were part of the original CNBC Asia team which includes around 170 Singapore based staff. It adopted similar programmes from its US counterpart, such as The Money Wheel and Business Tonight, but also had a few of its own programmes as well. In addition, from launch the channel broadcast programmes from CNBC Europe during the afternoon and CNBC US overnight.

In October 1999, CNBC Asia began a partnership with the Australian Financial Review to present The Australian Financial Review Market Wrap, a daily round-up of market news from the Australian region.

On 30 October 2000, CNBC Asia's ticker was reformatted on that day to include colours reflecting change in the stock prices (green for an increase and red for a decrease) and a stock's ticker symbol.

In 2001, CNBC Asia introduced localised tickers to audiences in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore and has since kept the ticker on the screen during commercial breaks.

In mid-2009, CNBC launched a new personal finance show, The Barefoot Investor, with Australian personal finance expert Scott Pape. This is similar to The Suze Orman Show and is seen on the Australian feed during weekends.

### 2010: new studio new look

On 14 June 2010, CNBC Asia moved to a new studio inside the Singapore Exchange. The new studio features a rear projection wall that principally gives an overview of regional market action (very similar to what CNBC Europe has). The left side of the studio has three LCD screens where a reporter stands beside to feature one story or highlight per screen. CNBC Asia also adopted the graphics package that CNBC US and CNBC Europe have been using since 2 March 2010.

### 2014: Picture format change to 16:9

Started from 30 March 2014, CNBC Asia changed its picture format to 16:9 as a standard broadcast format. CNBC Europe followed suit on 31 March 2014. Both networks debuted a then-new, updated graphics package, including new lower-thirds. This on-air style did not carry over to CNBC US, which still had the old on-air style used from 1 March 2010 to 10 October 2014. CNBC US also switched its own picture format to 16:9 on 13 October 2014.

## Programming

### Weekday line-up

CNBC Asia produces live business day programming from 6 am to 7 pm SIN time. The channel's weekday business day programmes (pan-Asian feed) are:

* CNBC Today with Adam Bakhtiar and Ritu Singh
* Asia Squawk Box with Sri Jegarajah and Karen Tso
* Asia Market Watch with Matthew Taylor
* Power Lunch Asia with Adam Bakhtiar and Christine Tan
* Asia Market Watch with Chery Kang
* Asia Market Wrap with Nancy Hungerford
* The Australian Financial Review Market Wrap with Dan Murphy
* Business Centre with Rico Hizon and Nancy Hungerford

In addition, CNBC Asia produces a weekly show - Managing Asia, presented by Christine Tan (Saturday with reruns on Sunday)

### Weekends

CNBC Asia broadcasts lifestyle programmes, branded under CNBC Life, showings of CNBC US documentaries and weekly business shows such as Managing Asia, CEO Australia, Asia This Week, Europe This Week, Access: Middle East, Suze Orman, Inside China and On the Money.

### End-of-year programming

On trading days over the Christmas and new year period, CNBC Asia massively cuts back its regional programming, replacing it with pre-taped specials with live output restricted to a two-hour edition of Asia Squawk Box. Simulcasts of programmes originating from CNBC US and CNBC Europe remain unaffected. Regular programming resumes immediately after the New Year's Day holiday.

### Simulcasts outside the region

In the US, most of CNBC Asia's daytime programmes are seen on CNBC World.

Since 23 April 2007, a free live and commercial-free stream of CNBC Asia has been available on CNBC.com every Monday, from 6AM to 7PM SIN time (Sundays 6PM to 7AM ET with DST). At other times, the stream can be accessed by subscribing to CNBC Plus, which costs $9.95/month or $99.95/year.

## CNBC Asia Ticker

During the trading day, CNBC Asia runs a ticker providing information from major Asian stock exchanges, as well as US and Europe recaps. The top bar usually features the Most Active shares in the region while the bottom bar gives the latest data on indices, currencies, commodities and the treasury market. At night, the old CNBC US ticker is simulated where only the ticker symbols are displayed instead of the companies' full names. The ticker is shown continuously during commercial breaks and most of the data for the Asian ticker is supplied by Reuters.

Viewers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia are treated to a more localised ticker with the top bar featuring trades from their respective local stock markets exclusively.

Outside Asia, the ticker can be seen alongside CNBC Asia programmes simulcasted on CNBC Europe and CNBC World. However, the ticker is not available on CNBC Asia's live stream at CNBC.com (both freeview and CNBC Plus) and is instead replaced by a similar looking static strip which says "CNBC" on the top bar and its tagline "First in Business Worldwide" on the lower bar.