"I was afraid, I wasn't sure," Bartiromo told me last week. Back then, few were convinced Fox Business could rival CNBC, and some wondered aloud if Rupert Murdoch's business network would even find its way onto enough cable systems to survive. Bartiromo herself wondered if stepping away from CNBC might be a mistake. And in February, Maria Bartiromo's Wall Street set a record for the network's highest ratings ever in the 9 p.m. time slot since the launch of Fox Business in 2007. It was in that moment that Bartiromo realized her two decade career at CNBC was coming to an end.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2019 15:11 UTC