{"id":758674,"date":"2026-09-03T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:22:08","slug":"cnbc-closes-hk-office-and-cancels-several-live-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758674\/","title":{"rendered":"CNBC closes HK office and cancels several live shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC under Versant Media Group is closing its Hong Kong office &#8220;as part of this programming and production restructuring,&#8221; and cancelling several daily live shows, including Inside India, The China Connection, and\u00a0Europe Early Edition, according to an email sent by CNBC to Bloomberg.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CNBC Meets and Built for Billions are also planned to be scrapped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes after\u00a0Comcast Corp. spun off its cable television networks, including CNBC and MS NOW, into a new company, Versant, at the start of 2026.\u00a0CNBC also laid off about ten employees earlier this year, including the managing editor of its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;News coverage of Hong Kong and the wider region will continue as part of our Asia coverage,&#8221; a CNBC spokesperson said, adding that international news reporting will continue to be led by editorial teams in London, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and Beijing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNBC under Versant Media Group is closing its Hong Kong office &#8220;as part of this programming and production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[390,891,14058,96,4176,14429,49,14431,14430,14432,913,14433,101,5438,14428,391,56,54,55,71],"class_list":["post-758674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-breaking-news","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-entertainment","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-latest-news","tag-sing-tao","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}