Squawk Box’s core on-air team remained intact for many years – the program was originally presented by
New Jersey lawyer Mark Haines, along with in-studio reporters Joe Kernen,
David Faber and
Maria Bartiromo at the
New York Stock Exchange. CNBC's senior economics reporter Steve Liesman also became a frequent contributor.
Alexis Glick joined the team as senior trading correspondent in May 2003,
2011–present On July 8, 2011, Quintanilla left
Squawk Box to become part of the new
Squawk on the Street anchor team, following Haines' death on May 24 of that year. His new assignment began three days later, when he debuted with
Melissa Lee and
Simon Hobbs.
Andrew Ross Sorkin of
The New York Times, joined Kernen and Quick in order to succeed Quintanilla's anchoring duties. Sorkin made his debut as co-anchor July 18, 2011. On October 13, 2014,
Squawk Box, along with CNBC's other trading-day shows, were launched in full 1080i high-definition as part of a network-wide switch to a full 16:9 letterbox presentation on that same day. On January 7, 2015,
Squawk Box moved to a new street-side studio inside the
Time-Life Building in
New York City after almost two decades in New Jersey (at CNBC's original facilities in Fort Lee from its August 7, 1995, debut to October 10, 2003, and at CNBC's facilities in Englewood Cliffs from October 13, 2003, to January 6, 2015). On January 4, 2016,
Squawk Box debuted a remastered version of its logo used since October 13, 2014. On February 8, 2016, both the Asian and European versions also started using the remastered
Squawk Box logo. On November 14, 2016, it was officially announced by the
NASDAQ that production of
Squawk Box would be relocated to the
NASDAQ MarketSite studio in Times Square; it began broadcasting from there on January 3, 2017. That same studio is also shared with CNBC's two other shows,
Fast Money and
Options Action (the latter aired on Fridays until its end in mid-September 2023; both shows are hosted by Melissa Lee). On November 15, 2017,
Squawk Box moved downstairs to a new street-level studio overlooking Times Square, also at the NASDAQ MarketSite. On October 30, 2019,
Squawk Box renovated its set at the NASDAQ MarketSite. The curved desk was replaced with a round anchor desk, a setup similar to the one the show had used when it aired from CNBC's Englewood Cliffs studios. New graphics and music were also introduced. ==Show times==