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The guest moderator season from Jeopardy! is drawing to a close, there are only two unknown guest presenters left before season 37 ends – and we will probably get an announcement as to who will take over the full-time position at the premiere of season 38 in mid-September. CNBC broadcaster David Faber takes the stage this week, but you’ll be forgiven if Faber isn’t a familiar face. Let us bring you up to date.
Faber is a financial journalist who joined CNBC in 1993 and has been with the company ever since. In the 1990s, Faber hosted Bull Session, a talk show for business news; Today he hosts CNBC’s morning talk show, Squawk on the Street, and their monthly news magazine Business Nation. In 2005, Faber won a Peabody Award for work on The Age of Walmart, a CNBC documentary. He is the author of three books: The Faber Report, And the Roof Caved In, and House of Cards: The Origins of the Collapse. Faber isn’t the first TV journalist to be the Jeopardy! Other broadcasters that have taken the stage include Katie Couric, Anderson Cooper, Bill Whitaker, Savannah Guthrie, Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos.
Faber and Danger! go way back to 2012 when he was at Jeopardy! Power Players Tournament that saw Fox News defeat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dana Perino to win $ 50,000. In his pre-show interview for his stay as a guest presenter, Faber revealed that he had the best advice on hosting Jeopardy! came from the show’s own staff.
« Well, your great team here was really just trying to get me to be myself, » Faber said to Jeopardy! Producers. “You know, there aren’t that many opportunities in the game – because the game is the star – of showing a lot of yourself. And actually I just wanted to focus on the gameplay. But they told me to smile to have fun, which I also tried to loosen up a little. That was all great advice, of course, to be enthusiastic and also to support the participants. ”
Before he stepped onto the podium, Faber hosted a homemade game by Jeopardy! with friends to get your feet wet.
« A few of my friends came to be attendees to have me there, and then a few others just to listen and criticize, » he said. « In the end it was very helpful. »
Every innkeeper has the opportunity to choose a charity of their choice, to the Jeopardy! will donate an amount equal to the accumulated winnings of the participants for the week. Faber has selected the Robin Hood Foundation, New York’s largest poverty alleviation nonprofit, as his preferred charity.
« In New York there have always been a lot of people who have had a hard time, » said Faber. « So I wanted to try to concentrate on my hometown. »
Faber is the penultimate guest presenter, only sports broadcaster Joe Buck has to leave. It doesn’t take long to get a permanent announcement from the host so place your bets now.
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