MSNBC will retain its name after it is spun off from Comcast along with other cable assets.
Mark Lazarus, who is leading the new company, told network staffers of the plans at a meeting today to announce the departure of Rashida Jones as the network’s president and the naming of Rebecca Kutler as interim leader, according to a network source.
“I know there was some discussion with the MSNBC name, so you can take that off of your worry list on things,” Lazarus said at the meeting.
Kutler also will be hiring a head of newsgathering and head of talent, Lazarus said. Throughout its history, MSNBC has drawn on correspondents and anchors from sister network NBC News, which will remain part of Comcast.
Lazarus said, “The only thing I’ll say is the worst thing any leader can do is change something that’s working just because they can. So, if this is working, then there’s no reason to change it.”
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The spinoff, announced in November, is expected to take about a year to complete. It also will include USA Network, CNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel.
MSNBC launched in 1996 as a venture between NBC News and Microsoft. It had a heavy emphasis on the then-emerging internet, but its primetime eventually evolved into a progressive alternative to right-leaning Fox News.
We must get rid of the telecommunications act and invest in non-profit organizations that report non bias polical news like Breakthrough, Democracy Now, the Real News Network. Billion dollar corporations must not be in the business of media news.
Will MSNBC still have access to NBC news feeds?
Will MSNBC stream live?
This are the questions most are asking…
FOX and its friends have lost one lawsuit after another due to their misrepresentations, not MSNBC. We need at least one news source that is not trying to train the populace in doublethink.
It’s very disconcerting that people like Jack think that MSNBC is non bias and is not training people to think what they want you to think. News should be unbiased. MSNBC is no different from Fox, and if you think otherwise, then you’re delusional.
MSNBC is the worst. All they do is call people Hitler. CNN is awful but way better than MSNBC.
You must have missed the lawsuits that MSNBC lost against Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, and Chris Hayes just in the last few months for lying about a gynecologist and the lawsuit they lost to Nick Sandmann before that.
It’s cool that you’re shilling for a giant corporation like Dominion though. I’m sure they appreciate it.
ah yes, I know when I think of the word “honest”, the billion-dollar multinational corporations Microsoft and NBC immediately come to mind lmao
Microsoft hasn’t had anything to do with MSNBC in 20 years. They sold their share of it to NBC/GE in 2005.
Do you think the problem we have in this country is reading comprehension or the inability to think critically? Because your reply has nothing to do with the OP.