Europe is the most affected by this - Morning Exchange will have to be axed, so I presume Louisa will have to go back to the market desk at Squawk Box. Europe is the only one of the three continents that the market will actually be open during the programme, so presumably there will have to be a focus on European stories (plus the ability of CNBC Europe to opt out if a particularly big European story should break?).
It appears Asia Market Wrap is also going - though I only have a CNBC Europe press release to confirm this - presumably Asia will have to run some sort of Closing Bell-type programme at some point - maybe CNBC Tonight will expand on this type of programming?
Whose graphics will they use- - I know the Asian graphics are simply cruder versions of the US ones, but Europe's are rather different..
As for Bloomberg... I like CNBC a whole lot better, but I notice those actually working in financial services tend to have Bloomberg on in their offices...
Edit... just noticed the other, CNBC (US) specific press release - Wake-up Call is going - and in shock horror news, Joe Kernan, Becky Quick, and Carl Quintanilla are to triple-anchor Squawk Box (a mammoth four hour programme now from 6am-10am ET), with Mark Haines now being reduced to the 9am-10am slot as "Squawk on the Street" with David Faber as his star reporter...
According to the promos for the new programme that have been airing on CNBC Europe since Monday around the beginning and end of advertising breaks during "Morning Exchange", the new programme is going to be called "Worldwide Exchange".
From this report from the Reuters website, CNBC President Mark Hoffman mentions about a change to the channel's on-air look...not sure if CNBC Europe is included in the changes though?
And in another related development, the business magazine "European Business" that's advertised on the channel, is to be rebranded as "CNBC European Business", as detailed in the link to the story from the online version of Media Week magazine shown below: