Maria Bartiromo to CNBC: ‘They’re Embarrassing Themselves’

By Chris Ariens 

The booking wars are breaking out in Davos.

Network insiders at the World Economic Forum gathering tell TVNewser that a CNBC staffer ribbed Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan as he made his way to a live interview with FBN’s Maria Bartiromo. “Ooooohhh. That’s where your headed. They’re no competition!,” a source tells us the CNBCer said. The live positions of CNBC and FBN are only a short distance from each other.

Bartiromo’s reaction was actually caught on air this morning around 10:10amET. “Look what they’re doing… they’re embarrassing themselves.” (YouTube clip below) Bartiromo, you’ll recall, bolted CNBC for Fox Business last year. This is her first year anchoring from Davos for FBN.

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Later, Charlie Gasparino, who is also an ex-CNBCer and who never met a fight he didn’t like, accused a CNBC executive of sending emails to guests seeking exclusivity. Here’s what he told FBN’s Melissa Francis: “They find out we have a guest, they call up that guest, or send them an email, and one of their PR people, a guy named Nick Dunn [editor’s note: he’s actually CNBC’s managing editor], does this. He sends a nasty email to these people saying if you go on their show in Davos, you can’t go on our show.”

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