CNBC chairman Mark Hoffman will step down as chairman next month after running the network since 2005.
"We are in the business of business so it's important to note we've never been more profitable, setting record after record in financial performance, year after year, as we maneuvered through economic cycles, exogenous events and the historic secular change that accompanied the information age," Hoffman said in a note to CNBC employees.Hoffman first joined CNBC in 1997 before leaving in 2001 for a series of leadership positions at local TV stations.
With financial control over its international properties, Hoffman expanded CNBC's TV reach and turned his attention to growing CNBC's digital business. CNBC.com has grown 6-fold in the past six years, with unique monthly readership growing from about 30 million to nearly 200 million. He's focused on consistency on the cable network side, which still makes up the majority of CNBC's revenue. Hoffman has renewed contracts for notable TV personalities including Jim Cramer, Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, David Faber, Carl Quintanilla and Andrew Ross Sorkin to maintain CNBC's leadership as a trusted source of news, especially for wealthier Americans.
"Once defined as a moribund domestic cable channel that many thought would never fully recover from the dotcom bubble bursting, CNBC is today a global multimedia powerhouse, punching far above its weight, in the digital age," Hoffman said. While CNBC is no longer rated by Nielsen, CNBC TV has ranked No. 1 among all business news platforms for 29 consecutive years in reaching Americans who make more than $125,000 a year, according to Ipsos surveys.
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