CNBC World is a business news channel operated in the United States by NBCUniversal. It is available on satellite via DirecTV on channel 357. At the end of 2011, Dish Network permanently stopped carrying the channel, giving DirecTV satellite exclusivity. Effective July 23, 2012, Verizon FIOS stopped carrying the channel except on its Ultimate tier. Comcast removed the channel from it's systems on July 10, 2012, but restored the channel in some areas as of August 2, but then removed it again on August 30.
The channel broadcasts programs from CNBC's international channels. Specifically, most of the business day schedules of CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia are simulcasted. Several other pre-taped shows from CNBC's different international channels (e.g. CNBC-TV18) can also be seen on the channel.
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“Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)