Jim Cramer gets new deal with CNBC

November 30, 2007 · Filed Under Business News, Media, U.S. News

Get ready for at least three more years of Jim Cramer screaming “Booyah” on CNBC’s “Mad Money.”

The loud-mouthed ex-hedge fund manager signed a new contract with the cable business channel. Terms weren’t disclosed.

“It was important for CNBC to lock him up,” said Brad Adgate of Horizon Media. “He’s become one of the few business news personalities out there.”

By re-upping Cramer, also co-founder of TheStreet.com and a New York magazine columnist, CNBC locked in one its most-popular talents as it faces competition from the newly launched Fox Business Network.

“CNBC tells me to give it my all every single night. I love that,” Cramer told the Daily News Thursday.

“I want to play for an all-star team. I don’t want to play for an expansion team,” he added, tweaking the competition.

Branching out beyond his encyclopedic knowledge of stocks, Cramer will also appear as a boardroom judge alongside Donald Trump in NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice,” premiering in January.