CNBC Business Channel: Global Village Now a Reality

CNBC has accomplished a broadcasting-first with Worldwide Exchange. The program, simultaneously broadcast on three continents, has anchors and chief executives conversing between New York, London and Singapore. The fiber-communications technology that makes the show possible has come to define globalization, broadcasting smooth and instantaneous interactions regardless of distance. Previously, delays resulting from the bouncing of signals to satellites would have prevented such a feat. The show is a response to the increasing globalization of economic markets, and for the first time CEOs can speak live to investors on three continents at once. For big business, the world has suddenly become small. - YaleGlobal