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61-708: The Sliders were formed for the 2007 season to ensure an even number of teams with the Frontier League's addition of the Southern Illinois Miners . The Sliders played a mere 32 home games at Jack Critchfield Park in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania , with the remaining 64 played on the road. For the 2008 season, the Sliders became a traveling team , playing all of their games on the road under the geographical moniker, Midwest Sliders . The Frontier League Sliders' became

122-400: A 3–0 lead thanks to a three-run fourth inning that included a two-run blast by Maddox, Florence rallied to tie the game with two runs in the seventh and one run in the eighth. The game remained knotted at 3–3 into extra innings, with neither team being able to break through until the bottom of the 12th. With the bases loaded and two outs, Kaase drew a walk from Florence's Brent Choban to force in

183-472: A 50–50 joint venture , and it was headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey . Sue Herera and Scott Cohn joined CNBC at its inception. CNBC had considerable difficulty getting cable carriage at first, as many providers were skeptical of placing it alongside the longer-established Financial News Network . By the winter of 1990, CNBC was in only 17 million homes – less than half of FNN's potential reach – despite

244-496: A 5–2 lead after six innings. Florence made it a one-run game with a two-run seventh inning, but the Miners responded with four runs in the eighth, including a three-run home run by outfielder Chad Maddox, to pull away and win 9–4. Florence denied the Miners a clean sweep of the postseason with a slim 4–3 victory in Game 3 at Rent One Park, setting up Game 4 on September 16 at home. After taking

305-533: A content partnership with AOL . Average daytime viewership (6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) reached a seven-year high of 310,000 viewers in the first quarter of 2008. Ratings plummeted in 2009 as the network aired bad economic news resulting from the Great Recession . In January 2010, the launch of the Korean language channel SBS-CNBC marked the fifteenth CNBC-branded channel worldwide. In July 2010, BT signed

366-702: A five-year contract with CNBC Europe to distribute content from its London headquarters to sister sites in Europe and the US. In 2011, CNBC won an award at the International Broadcasting Convention for its CNBC 4D: Interactive motion tracking that allows CNBC presenters to interact with 3D graphics, using technology from Unreel, Brainstorm, Motion Analysis. In June 2012, CNBC expanded its partnership with Yahoo! Finance in an effort to reach more online viewers. That month, CNBC.com had 6.5 million unique visitors in

427-423: A full 16:9 letterbox presentation, in line with CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe . Current notable programming (as of October 2024) CNBC occasionally serves as an outlet for NBC Sports programming, and essentially acts as an overflow feed when USA Network is broadcasting sports events. Mainly, this has occurred on weekends, especially the afternoon, and its coverage is purposefully limited away from any part of

488-573: A league-best 64–32 overall record, they also claimed their first-ever division title and made their second playoff appearance, falling in a hotly contested five-game series to the River City Rascals three games to two. After again making the postseason in 2011 with a 58–38 record, but again falling to River City in the Division Series, Southern Illinois made the playoffs as a wild card entrant at 55–39, finishing one win ahead of Windy City and

549-619: A low-budget mix of old movies and instructional and entertainment programs. The channel later changed its name to Tempo Television. After initially signing a letter of intent to acquire Tempo, NBC opted for a deal to lease the channel's transponder in June 1988. On this platform, and under the guidance of Tom Rogers , the channel was relaunched on April 17, 1989, as the Consumer News and Business Channel with Neil Cavuto anchoring this first broadcast. NBC and Cablevision initially operated CNBC as

610-561: A major rebranding, updating its logo for the first time since 1996 (adopting the updated NBC peacock and corporate typeface introduced a year prior), and revamping its on-air graphics with a simpler flat design . The two-tiered stock ticker CNBC had historically used was replaced with a single scroll, with major indices now displayed in a strip below the stock ticker. In November 2024, a Brazilian affiliate known as Times Brasil launched as CNBC's first local franchise in South America. It

671-429: A new multi-platform deal with Jim Cramer ; in addition to his existing television roles, the agreement includes the co-development of live events and digital content through his company Cramer Media (replacing his previous arrangement with TheStreet , which Cramer had co-founded, and sold to The Arena Group in 2019), including a direct-to-consumer subscription service. In January 2022, the subscription service launched as

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732-632: A season (5,086). In addition, Southern Illinois Miners fans contributed heavily to supporting their lead mascot, Big John, to become the record-setting overall winner of the Best Logo in Minor League Baseball, awarded April 2, 2008, by CNBC following their largest online poll ever. After going 49–47 in their first season, the Miners made their first playoff appearance in 2008. Led by postseason all-star outfielder Joey Metropoulos (who hit .315 with 20 home runs and 66 RBIs) and Frontier League Pitcher of

793-649: A studio at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square , New York City. CNBC was originally founded in April 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel , a joint venture between NBC and Cablevision . Following its 1991 bankruptcy, NBC acquired the competing Financial News Network (FNN) and merged it into CNBC, and acquired Cablevision's stake in CNBC to give it full ownership. In addition to its U.S. operations, CNBC operates

854-467: A team-record 136 + 2 ⁄ 3  innings pitched to become their fifth Frontier League Pitcher of the Year, and outfielder Kyle Davis also taking home postseason all-star honors. Cunningham finished atop the circuit in wins and innings while finishing second by one in strikeouts, and Davis finished in the league's top-10 in home runs (15) and RBIs (62). Due to the Frontier League absorbing five teams from

915-698: A unit of Comcast 's NBCUniversal . The network broadcasts business news and analysis programming during the morning, daytime trading day , and early-evening hours, while off-peak hours (such as weekday prime time and weekends) are filled by business-related documentaries and reality television programming, as well as occasional NBC Sports presentations. CNBC operates an accompanying financial news website, CNBC.com, which includes news articles, video and podcast content, as well as subscription-based services. CNBC's headquarters and main studios are located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , while it also maintains

976-399: Is still used to track the viewership of its entertainment programming. In October 2015, a Republican Party candidates debate hosted by CNBC was seen by 14 million viewers—the highest viewership of a CNBC program to-date. On January 10, 2016, CNBC announced a new partnership with Indonesian broadcaster Trans Media to form CNBC Indonesia . By 2017, Fox Business had overtaken CNBC as

1037-599: Is still with the channel, joined CNBC at that time. Other former FNN's workforce were hired by Bloomberg Television . The deal increased the distribution of the network to over 40 million homes. Cablevision sold its 49.5% stake in CNBC to NBC upon completion of the deal. Roger Ailes was hired as the president of CNBC in August 1993, tasked by NBC CEO Bob Wright with turning around the struggling network. Ailes resigned in January 1996 due to disagreements with management including

1098-716: The Champion City Kings . Southern Illinois Miners The Southern Illinois Miners were a professional baseball team based in Marion, Illinois . The Miners were members of the West Division of the independent Frontier League . From 2007 to 2021, the Miners played their home games at Rent One Park . The "Miners" name refers to the Southern Illinois region's history of coal mining. The Miners won their first and only Frontier League championship in 2012. Following

1159-586: The NBCUniversal News Group in 2020, after which the network began to engage in some resource sharing with the division. CNBC has a licensing partnership with Paradies Lagardère to operate retail locations in United States airports branded as CNBC News, CNBC Express, and CNBC SmartShop. The stores sell CNBC-branded merchandise as well as snacks and drinks. CNBC has been criticized for allegedly amplifying bull and bear markets, particularly in

1220-666: The Schaumburg Boomers . The Miners faced the Traverse City Beach Bums , who finished with the league's best record at 64–32, in the division series. In Game 1 on the road, the Miners shut out the Beach Bums 1–0 behind a solo home run by postseason all-star outfielder Javier Herrera (acquired in a trade with the Rockford RiverHawks earlier in the season) and eight shutout innings from ace right-hander David Harden. In

1281-491: The "CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer", which includes commentaries, stock picks, and monthly online meetings. The service operates alongside another CNBC subscription service, "CNBC Pro", which similarly provides exclusive content and over-the-top streaming of CNBC's networks. In August 2022, Mark Hoffman stepped down as president of CNBC after 17 years at the network, being succeeded by NBCUniversal president of global advertising and partnerships KC Sullivan. Under Sullivan,

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1342-409: The 2005–2007 Washington Wild Things ) and the first team in league history to win 60 or more games in three consecutive seasons. The Miners retired number 20 for player/coach/instructor Ralph Santana in 2017. Santana was the team's first postseason all-star in 2007 as a second baseman, and served as hitting coach from 2008 to 2013, earning Frontier League Coach of the Year honors in 2012. They finished

1403-636: The 2021 season, the team owners announced their retirement would also come with the folding of the franchise. The city of Marion had not hosted any professional baseball team since the departure of the Marion Indians after the 1948 season. The Indians played for only two seasons in the Class D Illinois State League . John Simmons, an Illinois lawyer, proposed the Marion ballpark originally for an affiliated professional Minor League Baseball team, but that request

1464-700: The American trading day on weekdays. Consistent programming includes the Premier League and the Olympics . Generally, during weekdays CNBC airs coverage from 5-8PM ET, following business coverage. During weekends, CNBC carries much more extensive sports coverage. In 2022, ten AMA Supercross Championship races aired on CNBC. In 2016 and 2017, CNBC aired The Game , the annual college football game between Harvard University and Yale University as part of NBC Sports' Ivy League television contract. In 2022, CNBC

1525-508: The CNBC Disruptor 50 since 2013 and the CNBC25 since 2014. On January 6, 2015, CNBC changed the way it calculates ratings, switching from Nielsen ratings to a system by Cogent Research to calculate the viewership of its business day programming by surveying financial advisers and investors, with the goal of providing a more accurate measurement of the network's out-of-home viewership; Nielsen

1586-679: The Midwest Sliders of Ypsilanti for the 2009 season. That year they played at Eastern Michigan University 's Oestrike Stadium located in Ypsilanti, Michigan . In 2010, the team was renamed the Oakland County Cruisers , and moved into the new Diamond at the Summit ballpark. In 2012, the team moved again to London, Ontario and became the London Rippers . The team folded halfway through

1647-510: The Miners. The Miners have won the Frontier League Organization Of The Year Award three times (2007, 2009, 2010). Southern Illinois finished with a winning record in each of their first ten seasons, from 2007 to 2016, representing a Frontier League record. The team has sent a total of 66 players to the league's All-Star game in 13 seasons, with 17 postseason all-stars in their history including five Pitchers of

1708-516: The United States while Yahoo! Finance had 37.5 million. In 2013, host Maria Bartiromo left CNBC for Fox Business in part because Fox offered her $ 5–6 million per year compared to the $ 4 million per year that she made at CNBC. Also that year, CNBC took over production of the popular public television program Nightly Business Report from NBR Worldwide, a subsidiary of Atalaya Global Management. The company publishes annual lists, including

1769-430: The Year (2008: Ryan Bird, 2010: Joe Augustine, 2014: Matt Bywater, 2015: Adam Lopez, 2019: Chase Cunningham), one league Most Valuable Player (2009: Joey Metropoulos) and one Rookie of the Year (2016: Shane Kennedy). As of the end of the 2019 season, the Miners have had 59 former players signed by Major League Baseball organizations. Three former Miners ( Tanner Roark , Clay Zavada and Brandon Cunniff ) have made it to

1830-522: The Year Ryan Bird (who went 13–3 with a 2.48 ERA and league-best 152 strikeouts), Southern Illinois went 58–38, making the postseason as a wild card entrant. On September 8, they won their first playoff game in team history, defeating the Windy City ThunderBolts 4–2 at home. They ultimately fell in the division series to the eventual league champion ThunderBolts in four games. The 2010 Season

1891-558: The ball team back in 2009. In the 2009 season the Sliders were managed by Chase Rowe , a Slippery Rock University alumnus and current head coach of nearby La Roche College . Over the next five years the Sliders would form a small rivalry with fellow Butler County PL team the Butler BlueSox . The Sliders ceased operations in Slippery Rock at the end of the 2013 season. The franchise relocated to Springfield, Ohio and were renamed

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1952-492: The championship-winning run as the Miners claimed their first league title in team history. Lester, who hit .500 (8-for-16) with two doubles, two home runs and three RBIs in the series, was named the championship series MVP. After the Miners missed the playoffs in 2013 for the first time since 2009, Southern Illinois finished with a 60–36 record in 2014, clinching the East Division title on September 3 (the second-to-last day of

2013-474: The day. From 2001 to 2006, the CNBC website was operated by MSN . In August 2003, CNBC signed a deal to provide weather content from AccuWeather . In October 2003, CNBC moved its world headquarters from Fort Lee (which became the new home of Telemundo flagship station WNJU ) to a new digital video production studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey . NBC Universal reacquired full control of loss-making CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia from Dow Jones at

2074-693: The decision by NBC management to form a joint venture with Microsoft that included the rebrand of " America's Talking " as MSNBC . Under the leadership of Ailes, annual revenue at CNBC rose from $ 43 million to $ 110 million. In June 1995, CNBC launched the Hong Kong -based CNBC Asia , and CNBC Europe , headquartered in London , in March 1996. In December 1997, CNBC formed a strategic alliance with Dow Jones, including content sharing with Dow Jones Newswires , The Wall Street Journal , MarketWatch , and Barron's and

2135-543: The end of 2005. The licensing agreement between Dow and CNBC U.S. remained intact, until it expired in 2012. CNBC reported annual revenues of $ 510 million in 2006. In September 2006, CNBC launched the FTSE CNBC Global 300 stock market index in conjunction with FTSE Group . The index includes the fifteen largest companies from each of the sectors of the Industry Classification Benchmark as well as

2196-586: The former Can-Am League in October 2019, the Miners were placed in the new Midwestern Division of the league. The Miners' 2020 season was suspended on June 24 when the Frontier League announced it too would suspend the 2020 championship season due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On October 6, 2021, after going 54-42 (.563) and coming 3rd in the West Division but missing the playoffs, owners Jayne and John Simmons announced they would be retiring from professional baseball, ceasing

2257-475: The international branches CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia , and is involved in other international affiliates via joint ventures and franchise arrangements. In 2023, CNBC had higher total day and primetime viewership than its rival, Fox Business , but finished behind Fox in trading day viewership. CNBC's roots date back to the founding in 1979 of the Satellite Program Network (SPN), which showed

2318-497: The lack of direct comments by the network, several personalities have defended their predictions and comments. CNBC was accused by the Obama administration of "cable chatter"—the excessive and sometimes brutal discussion on a particular topic, often one-sided. Regarding CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer , an August 20, 2007, article in Barron's stated that "his picks haven't beaten

2379-519: The league's best record. They also won their second-straight East Division championship, clinching it in memorable fashion on August 30 with a walk-off, two-run home run by third baseman Steve Marino against Traverse City. Right-handed starter Adam Lopez went 10–0 with a 1.86 ERA to become the second-straight Miners hurler to win the league's Pitcher of the Year Award. The Miners also retired number 13 for all-time wins and strikeouts leader Ryan Bird in 2015,

2440-459: The major leagues. Mike Pinto is / was the only Manager that the Miners have ever had. He held the title as the All Time Leader in Frontier League history in managerial wins. Postseason All-Star: 3B Steve Marino Postseason All-Star: OF Shane Kennedy Postseason All-Star: DH Craig Massey CNBC CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group ,

2501-562: The market. Over the past two years, viewers holding Cramer's stocks would be up 12% while the Dow rose 22% and the S&;P 500 16%." On October 10, 2007, CNBC HD, a 1080i high-definition television simulcast of CNBC, was launched, first on DirecTV . On October 13, 2014, coincidentally the 11th anniversary of CNBC's relocation to its current facilities in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, CNBC switched to

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2562-466: The most watched daytime business news network. CNBC's online video operations generated an all-time high of 1.92 billion total digital video starts across platforms in 2020. In 2020, CNBC hired former Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith to host a new evening newscast on the channel, The News with Shepard Smith , which premiered that September. It was positioned as an objective , "fact-based" national newscast. In September 2021, CNBC signed

2623-480: The network began to refocus its programming to broaden appeal to its core business audience, including a promise of more business-related documentaries in primetime, and cancelling the low-rated The News with Shepard Smith in November 2022 in favor of the new financial news program Last Call with Brian Sullivan , which premiered in January 2023, and ran until July 18, 2024. On December 11, 2023, CNBC underwent

2684-452: The operating departments of various independent financial institutions across the United States, allowing traders to be interviewed instantaneously as news breaks. In December 2007, CNBC formed a content partnership with Yahoo! Finance . In January 2008, CNBC formed a content partnership with The New York Times , which was seen as an attempt by both parties to take on increased competition from News Corporation. In May 2008, CNBC formed

2745-540: The operations of the Southern Illinois Miners. 2021 would also see the final set of baseball cards produced for the Miners . These had previously been printed and distributed by Grandstand, a company that specialize in the manufacturing of cards for Minor League teams . Mike Pinto was the Miners Manager and this was his 14th season . It was also his 4th year in the dual role of Chief Operating Officer of

2806-473: The rebranding of the channel as "a service of NBC and Dow Jones". As part of the agreement, Dow Jones merged their competing business news channels—London-based European Business News and Singapore-based Asia Business News —into CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia respectively, with CNBC shutting down its Hong Kong–based operation and relocating the new CNBC Asia to ABN's Singapore studios. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, CNBC's ratings increased sharply along with

2867-522: The regular season) with a road victory over the Lake Erie Crushers . It was the second divisional championship in team history. That year, they also retired uniform number 31 for 2009 Frontier League MVP Joey Metropoulos, the first retired number in team history. Ace left-hander Matt Bywater won the team's second Frontier League Pitcher of the Year Award. In 2015, the Miners finished with the second-best record in team history, going 63–33 to finish with

2928-592: The road against the Gateway Grizzlies , with the franchise's first home run hit by Tim Dorn that same night. Six days later, they played their first home game against the Evansville Otters , winning 9–6 in front of a crowd of 6,251. The team set a new Frontier League attendance record by hosting 259,392 fans (the prior record was 217,500 set by Gateway in 2004). The Miners also became the first team in Frontier League history to average over 5,000 fans per game for

2989-421: The run-up to the dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis a decade later. In response to these criticisms, CNBC anchors have pointed to the size of the market and noted that influencing it is "a little out of our reach". Jon Stewart on Comedy Central 's The Daily Show has been a vocal critic of CNBC and some of its personalities, beginning after comments were made by Rick Santelli . Despite

3050-459: The season, and once again became a traveling team known as the Road Warriors. The Road Warriors would be the final incarnation of the franchise as the team did not return to any city in the 2013 season. When the summer-collegiate Prospect League was formed, Slippery Rock was announced as one of the franchise locations. Owner/GM Mike Bencic acquired the Sliders name & logo rights, bringing

3111-438: The second game, Traverse City scored three runs in the first inning and led 4–0 in the sixth before the Miners came back with three runs in the sixth and a game-tying RBI single by Cory Harrilchak in the eighth inning. With the score still tied at 4–4 in the tenth inning, outfielder Ken Gregory hit a go-ahead solo home run, which eventually proved to be the winning run in a 5–4 Miners extra-inning victory. Southern Illinois completed

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3172-493: The second retired number in team history. In 2016, the Miners celebrated their 10th anniversary season with more on-field success, with a second-straight 63–33 regular season. They won their third-straight division championship (this time in the West Division) by 7 + 1 ⁄ 2  games over the second-place Evansville Otters, becoming the second team in Frontier League history to win three straight division titles (after

3233-429: The size of NBC, its parent. After an accounting scandal , FNN filed for bankruptcy protection on March 2, 1991, and put itself up for sale. After a bidding war with a Dow Jones & Company – Westinghouse Broadcasting consortium, CNBC was awarded FNN by a bankruptcy judge for $ 154.3 million on May 21, 1991, and merged the two operations. CNBC hired around 60 of FNN's 300-person workforce, including Joe Kernen who

3294-453: The stock market, often beating those of CNN during market hours. The highest daytime viewership of the network in 2000 was 343,000. However, after the burst of the dot-com bubble , CNBC's viewing figures declined in tandem. In 2002, CNBC's ratings fell 44% and were down another 5% in 2003. The network's ratings steadily fell until bottoming in Q1 2005, with an average viewership of 134,000 during

3355-540: The sweep of the favored Beach Bums by winning Game 3 at home 4–3, sending the club to their first-ever Frontier League championship series. In the championship series, the Miners took on the Florence Freedom, who had beaten the Gateway Grizzlies in a five-game series three games to two. Again, the Miners opened the series on the road, and again they took the first two games of the series. In Game 1, trailing 1–0 in

3416-505: The third inning, Southern Illinois got back-to-back home runs by catcher Chris Anderson (a two-run shot) and second baseman Cannon Lester to take a 3–1 lead. Florence would rally to tie the score with two runs in the sixth, but two Freedom errors in the seventh brought home the eventual winning run. The Miners added an RBI double in the eighth by Gregory to complete the scoring as they won 5–3. In Game 2, Southern Illinois used home runs from Gregory, Lester and shortstop Jake Kaase to jump out to

3477-479: The thirty largest companies from emerging markets . Profits at CNBC exceeded $ 333 million in 2007, making CNBC the second most profitable of NBC Universal's thirteen cable channels in the United States, behind only the USA Network . Ratings hit an all-time high in 2007. CNBC Africa was launched on June 1, 2007. On October 22, 2007, CNBC introduced the "CNBC Investor Network", a network of webcams stationed in

3538-404: The year with a 39–57 record, their first (and to date, only) season with a losing record. The Miners posted a 48–47 mark in 2018, their 11th winning season in 12 years. In 2019 the Miners ended the year with a 53–43 record, their 12th winning season in 13 years. They also had their first postseason all-star players since 2016, with Chase Cunningham going 10–5 with a 3.23 ERA and 132 strikeouts in

3599-536: Was founded by Douglas Tavolaro, who had originally founded CNN Brasil . On November 20, 2024, NBCUniversal announced its intent to spin off most of its cable networks, including CNBC, as a new publicly-traded company controlled by Comcast shareholders. It is currently unclear how the spin-off will affect CNBC, including whether it will still be able to use NBC News resources or the NBC brand. CNBC had largely operated autonomously from NBC News until Cesar Conde became head of

3660-467: Was historic season for the Miners as they set a Frontier League record with a 20-game winning streak from June 9 – June 28, and with 64 total wins tied the record for second-most wins in a season in league history. That year, Rent One Park hosted its first-ever Frontier League All-Star Game, with the Miners sending 10 players to the midseason showcase while sporting a 39–9 record at the All-Star break. Thanks to

3721-591: Was rejected by the Midwest League . However, Simmons remained interested in bringing professional baseball to Marion, so he petitioned several independent leagues for membership. In August 2006, Marion was officially announced as an expansion franchise of the Frontier League , to begin play in 2007. The region's close proximity to existing teams made Southern Illinois a natural fit for the Frontier League. The Miners began their inaugural season on May 23, 2007, on

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