Commentator joins CNBC

Tuesday, April 9, 2002 | 9:43 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Financial journalist Louis Rukeyser, ousted by PBS after 32 years, will return to the air on CNBC next week in a manner seemingly designed to make things difficult for his old show.

The new program, "Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street," debuts at 8:30 p.m. ET on April 19 on the cable news financial network.

That's the same Friday time slot that Rukeyser occupied on PBS, and he will compete with the "Wall $treet Week" that fired him last month.

CNBC is making Rukeyser's show available to any PBS station that wants to rebroadcast it, although it won't be available on Friday nights. His show will run without advertising and with underwriter support -- the same format used by PBS.

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