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Bill Griffeth is an American <a href="/biography/bill-griffeth">journalist</a> and news anchor who was <a href="/biography/bill-griffeth">one</a> of the FNN's founding members (Financial News Network). He currently co-anchors "Closing Bell" on CNBC. He is one of the most respected financial journalists in the country, with nearly 30 years of experience in business television.

<h2>Background</h2>

Born August 7, 1956, Bill Griffeth was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to Frances and Charles Griffeth. He has worked as a news anchor since 1981 and has worked for CNBC Since 1991. In 1992, Bill and Cindy, a fellow Los Angeles native, moved into Park Ridge, where they raised their son Chad and daughter Carless. Member of The Hillside Methodist Church Cindy is a treasurer and teaches Bible Study.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Bill attended both middle school and private high school here. In his biography, he claimed to have been an excellent student and participated in his high school's journalism club, which started his career in journalism.

After graduating from high school, Bill enrolled at the University of California at Northridge (CSUN) and graduated in 1980 with a BA in journalism. In the year 2000, CSUN honored him with their Distinguished Alumnus Award, and in 2017, his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater">Alma Mater</a> awarded him an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. His talent in this field has gained him a net worth of $10 million.

<h2>Career</h2>

Before joining CNBC, Bill was <a href="/biography/bill-griffeth">one</a> of the founding members of FNN (Financial News Network) in 1981. During his ten years at FNN, Bill was nominated for the CableAce award for best news anchor, most notably for his 1987 stock market crash coverage.

In 1991, Bill joined CNBC when NBC purchased his network FNN and merged the two companies. Griffeth has anchored multiple programs in CNBC like Nightly Business Report, The Edge Market Wrap Mutual Fund Investor, The Money Club, Closing Bell, and the ever-popular Power Lunch co-anchored with <a href="/biography/sue-herera">Sue Herera</a>.

During his Nightly Business Report (NBR) production with <a href="/biography/sue-herera">Sue</a>, it was noted that there had been a 20% increase in viewers since its start five years before. During these years, he gained six more CableAce nominations along the way.

The NBR also hosts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Mathisen">Tyler Mathisen</a>, who has served Bill and <a href="/biography/sue-herera">Sue</a> as co-hosts calling them close friends. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Mathisen">Tyler</a> claims his strong sentiments about the show on CNBC "It's no accident that NBR is the longest-running business show on television. There's simply no better place to get a concise, context-filled daily summary of the business and market news that matters most." In early 2018, Bill replaced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Mathisen">Tyler</a>'s spot on NBR to take his new role as the vice president of CNBC. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Mathisen">Tyler</a>, however, will continue to keep his co-anchor position on CNBC's Power Lunch.

November 19, 2009, CNBC president Mark Hoffman announced to his staff that Bill would be taking off the year; his last day until the following year was Wednesday, November 25, 2009, and he did not return until January 3, 2011.

<h2>Books</h2>

Bill is an <a href="/biography/bill-griffeth">author</a> of four books, Bill Griffen's Ten Steps to Financial Prosperity (1994), The Mutual Fund Masters (1995), By Faith Alone: One Family's Epic Journey Through 400 Years of American Protestantism (2207), and The Stranger in My Genes (2016).

Since 2003, Bill became an avid amateur genealogist serving as a board member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. He and his wife Cindy have traveled across Europe visiting the places of their ancestors leading up to his work "By Faith Alone: One Family's Epic Journey Through 400 Years of American Protestantism."

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Naturally, when one is interested in the idea of ancestry, genetics becomes a topic of interest. One of Bill's cousins, Doug, then asked if he would be willing to take a DNA test to help him with his research. More than happy to oblige, Bill was not expecting the results he received; they suggested that Bill's father was not his birth father.

<h2>Personal Life</h2>

The Stranger in My Genesis, a book Bill then wrote about the impact this knowledge had on his family and his search for his biological father. It was a simple test, a cotton swab on the inside of his mouth. The lab had told him they had received a "weird result" from the trial and would then be rerunning the sample results. October 4, Bill was at work and received a message from Doug, the son of his father's brother, but the results had stated they were not blood-related. Charles Griffeth was not Bill Griffeth's biological father. He didn't know what to think, and nor did Cindy, his Wife.

Shocked was how Cindy described her reaction sooner to blame a mistake with the test than accuse Bill's Mother. As a result, Bill had his brother Chuck submit a test to a different DNA lab this time. Just before Thanksgiving, it was then that they learned that they had a separate Father. Bill is the youngest of five children to Frances Griffeth, described as a "quiet, pious Christian woman" in his book. Living in an assisted living facility, he was unsure whether or not to broach the subject with her.

When they were getting together to celebrate her birthday, regardless of his fear of ruining their few times a year get-together, Chuck, his brother, advised Bill to go ahead and ask. Awkward Bill claims it was not an easy topic to ask her, but they got through it. Learning his mother had, had a brief affair with a builder whom she had worked with, his mother claimed that she did not know who the father was at the time, and even Bill claims that he does not believe his father ever had an inkling that Bill was not his biological son. It was as if he lived in an illusion he claims where the reality he believed in was false.

With the last name Wyman, Cindy and Bill flew to Phoenix to learn about his birth father. Finding an old photo of him at the cemetery, Cindy joked that the man, just like her husband, had a love for golf. After printing out the picture of his newly found Father, Cindy claims a strong resemblance between the two. They traced his father's roots to Tennessee and visited some of the sites, but Bill has no plans on reaching out to any of those relatives.

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