Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Brotherhood of the Traveling Suits

Page Six: CNBC is wasting no time in searching for a new suit to replace departed Senior VP Jonathan Wald. An insider says Victor Neufeld, former executive producer of ABC's "20/20," in terviewed for the position last Friday. And earlier this month, Andrew Heyward, a former CBS News president, made a pitch for the job. A CNBC rep had no comment. In the meantime, Tyler Mathisen has been tapped as Wald's interim replacement.

Page Six: Dylan Ratigan is making the suits at ABC squirm. The former "Fast Money" anchor -- who quit CNBC last week after clashing with network VP Susan Krakower, as we first reported -- is telling anybody who'll listen that he'll be the new chief financial correspondent at ABC News this fall. All ABC rep Jeff Schneider would say yesterday was, "We think the world of Dylan Ratigan." Maybe that's because of a strict noncompete clause in Ratigan's CNBC contract prohibiting him from making deals for six months. One ABC insider nervously told us: "There are no talks, so there is no deal, so he has no title." Ratigan's agent declined to comment.

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