CNBCBrian Steel, senior VP of PR at CNBC, will stay at the financial news network despite recent reports that he was exiting.

CNBC chairman Mark Hoffman said in August Steel “is leaving to take on a challenging new position that will be announced in the coming days.”

O’Dwyer’s has confirmed Steel is going nowhere--at the moment.

The New York Law School alum joined CNBC in 2007 following a five-year stint at Citicorp, where he held the director of corporate affairs position.

He did a four-year tour of Washington in the Justice Dept. as spokesperson/domestic policy advisor, exiting in 2002.