This afternoon on Your World, Neil Cavuto asked John McEnroe why his CNBC talk show died after five months back in 2004:
| CAVUTO: They didn’t seem to have the patience for you. Are you bitter, or does that say something about strong personalities at networks, what? MCENROE: I’ll tell you, it’s a great question. It’s one i have thought about a lot because one of the reasons, Neil, I signed on to CNBC is because no one was watching it at night. And the idea was to try to get something going, so I figured I’d get that time to learn my craft and to try to do something different. After all, CNBC was a network where people would look and see how their stocks were doing during the day. And for the most part people would turn it off [at night]. You look at the ratings, not just me — the guy that took my place, he ain’t exactly knocking them dead in the ratings, either. CAVUTO: It’s true, it’s true. MCENROE: So, I did feel disappointed because I really expected that this would be more of a longer-term thing. I am not saying I was great at it but I felt like I was learning and I was excited to try to learn. Bitter pill? Almost, I’d say. |
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