CNBC has been broadcasting all week from their new San Fran location and while the show now offers some tremendous views in the background, one has to ask WTF is the thought process behind it. Closer to big tech to cover that?
For a channel going through some of its worst ratings ever, changing location certainly does offer pretty views but fixes none of the issues as to why the ratings are where they are.
Odd.
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I'm not sure CNBC studio programming ever originated from the Wall Street financial area. (They sometimes cut to the floor of the NYSE). According to the linked article, their morning "Squawk Box" show moved from a NJ studio to midtown Manhattan near Radio City Music Hall sometime in 2015. We happened to walk past it last January - just a 10-15 minute stroll from Times Square. Interestingly, there's a gigantic UBS building (think Art Cashin) in close proximity.
Rarely tune them in. Will say, however, that their evening edition (originating it appears in Asia) is far superior when they don't preempt it with sensationalized "canned" content. Not the running markets - but some of the industry insights are really good if one enjoys that type of news and analysis. (It's called "CNBC West" and airs on a different channel.)
Here's the article: http://talkingbiznews.com/1/cnbc-moving-squawkbox-set-to-midtown-manhattan/
One Market Street is the former headquarters of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. My father worked there for his entire working career. When Southern Pacific was subsumed by Union Pacific he was already dead: it's probably just as well as that would have killed him for sure.
@hank, thanks for refreshing my memory. They were running out of Fort Lee NJ.
@Maurice- Your memory is excellent expect in the respect of nearness to the airport. The Old Clam House restaurant does indeed look like a shack, but the food is good and reasonably priced. I'm happy that you got away from the tourist stuff and found it. My wife and I were down to "Fisherman's Wharf" the other evening, and it's even worse than we remember it. Just a collection of tourist rip-off joints.
The Old Clam House is (still!) located at 299 Bayshore Blvd, quite close to where I used to work, actually, which is more or less in the Southeast part of SF. Not a great neighborhood, but a lot of people work in various light industries around there, and are frequent customers. The picture certainly looks a lot better than the restaurant itself!
We haven't been there in quite a while. If it's all spiffy and wonderful like in the pics we probably can't afford to eat there anymore. It really was pretty much of a shack, before. It looks like where the people are sitting is now enclosed- that used to be a small outdoor area with a rickety old fence around it.
"Ask and ye shall receive." ... Thanks
Actually, looks better without people.
I'd say that fire hydrant out in front's a darned good idea.
Seriously - can't judge a book by its cover. Anything seafood sounds fine by me.
Puts me in mind of Mark Twain for some reason. He lived a while in SF and did quite a bit of his early writing out there - as I'm sure you're aware.
@hank- You're surely right on that- that place is ancient, and pretty much all old wood frame and paneling. But look at the two pics- they must take the fire hydrant inside at night for safekeeping?
It's getting hard to tell any more.