mre29 1513 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 16 minutes ago, Action Newsroom said: - Ayman and Velshi get new (expaned) weekend hours. I have a feeling Ali Velshi's being saved for when Lawrence O'Donnell retires. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 1042 Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 On 2/23/2025 at 10:46 AM, MorningNews said: Joy Reid and Wagner’s shows are easily the weakest parts of their primetime lineup so I like this move. The Weekend is surprisingly pretty good, it’ll be interesting to see if it can translate to 7pm. Not surprising about Wagner given this is the 2nd time MSNBC has cancelled a show of hers. Axing Reid without at least moving her to weekends or keeping her as a contributor is surprising. Not sure Psaki will be a draw the network thinks she'll be. 'The Weekend' team could do well, but who knows??? 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2362 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 5 hours ago, Action Newsroom said: The new schedule is here. Highlights: - Jen Psaki moves to Tuesday-Friday 9pm. - Rachel Maddow reverts to Mondays only. - A new evening show with The Weekend's hosts (2 hours on Mondays; 1 on Tue-Fri). - Expansions of the Reports shows to two hours each on dayside. - Jonathan Capehart gets a new weekend morning show. - Ayman and Velshi get new (expaned) weekend hours. All moves starting this spring. Also missed from this article... Quote As MSNBC prepares to be spun off from Comcast, in a transaction expected to be completed later this year, it is also consolidating operations to New York and Washington, D.C.. Operations will be closed in Miami, meaning the end of José Díaz-Balart Reports and The Katie Phang Show. Díaz-Balart will continue to anchor NBC Nightly News on weekends, and Phang will remain at MSNBC as a legal correspondent. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amra 171 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 8 hours ago, mre29 said: I have a feeling Ali Velshi's being saved for when Lawrence O'Donnell retires. God I wish they would reunite Velshi & Ruhle on Primetime 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 591 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Maddow made her thoughts on all this tonight, saying canceling Joy’s show was a mistake 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reweivvt88 46 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 (edited) 9 hours ago, atlnews2 said: Maddow made her thoughts on all this tonight, saying canceling Joy’s show was a mistake She also called out the new MSNBC leadership for the fact that all the non-white hosts are all losing their shows, mentioning Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, and Katie Phang, saying it is "worse than bad, indefensible" and lashed out at how horrible the new MSNBC leadership was treating the staff at these shows. Saying "this has not happened at this level at the network before, because this is not the right way to treat people. it's inefficient and unnecessary", and went on to say and it "kind of drops the bottom on if people feel like this place is a good place to work, so we generally don't do things this way" and went on about how the way to be successful is to treat people with respect and that's something that they could "do a lot better on, a lot better". She has been critical of MSNBC in the past, but I have never seen her go this far against network leadership before. I think Rebecca Kutler just realized she can't behave the same deplorable way she did at CNN at MSNBC. Hosts are going to attack you for your horrible decisions on air, staff are going to record your private meetings and release them to the media. She has clearly lost the support of MSNBC's most high profile host, and that's really not a good position to be in as president of the network. Rebecca Kutler can make all the excuses she wants, but this looks really bad. The Reidout was not bombing in the ratings, it was outperforming all the CNN primetime shows. The viewership of Joy Reid's show was similar to that of Jen Psaki. Yet, Joy's show gets cancelled and Jen gets promoted to take over Alex Wagner (the only other non-white weeknight host) in the 9:00pm slot. Meanwhile, the show that has shed the most viewers (The 11th Hour) remains unchanged. The show that has angered a lot of MSNBC's audience (Morning Joe) remains unchanged. A panel show that airs weekend mornings is now going to air in primetime, that's a huge risk, it will need to gain hundreds of thousands of new viewers, and will need to win over very upset viewers of The Reidout. It's a very reckless decision to try out a new show like this at 7:00pm ET. And the changes she made to the weekend schedule seem idiotic to me. While MSNBC's weeknight primetime ratings were strong, weekend ratings struggled, and she has decided to take the 2 highest rated weekend shows (and the only weekend shows MSNBC bothered to promote) off of the weekend schedule and move them to weeknight primetime, so the new weekend shows will have to launch without the benefit of having a strong lead-in / lead-out. Repeats at 6:00am ET when everyone else has live news, a new 3 hour panel show at 7:00am ET, followed by 3 hours of Ali Velshi, 3 hours of Alex Witt, an hour of repeats, Al Sharpton, and then another panel show starting at 6:00pm (and I assume running until 9:00pm, so 3 hours of the same new untested show) is the new weekend schedule. So if one of these new panel shows bombs in the ratings (which is likely, especially the 6pm ET panel show which will have repeats & Al Sharpton as a lead-in), it's going to bring down 3 hours of programming with it. There's not really much of a reason to watch MSNBC on the weekend if you want some variety. Basically 4 shows each running 3 hours. Edited February 25 by Reweivvt88 5 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-303949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowBergen 679 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 MSNBC has hired WABC Eyewitneess News VP of News Scott Matthews to become the VP of News Gathering at the future separated MSNBC and is taken with hiring over 100 reporters producers etc as they build their own news gathering staff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/03/06/msnbc-news-scott-matthews-hiring/ 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Lampstein 99 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 I wonder where these jobs will be posted. I have to imagine they might need some people who work on my side of the broadcast world… 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1263 Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Columnist Catherine Rampell will be a co-host on The Weekend hosts' new primetime show. https://deadline.com/2025/03/catherine-rampell-msnbc-the-weekend-1236323106/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVNewsLover 774 Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 They really need to have a consistent Monday-Friday schedule. The inconsistency only serves to confuse viewers. If Rachael wants to work a one day a week schedule, let it be on Sunday night. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 825 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 On 3/11/2025 at 11:33 AM, TVNewsLover said: They really need to have a consistent Monday-Friday schedule. The inconsistency only serves to confuse viewers. If Rachael wants to work a one day a week schedule, let it be on Sunday night. She getting paid $25Million and you think she will settled in on Sunday night spot? She has a contract that lets her do what she wants at $25Million. If you had that big contract would you want to do a Sunday Night Show instead of Mondays only after The President first 100 days? 2 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaZone4K 2158 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 (edited) On 3/11/2025 at 11:33 AM, TVNewsLover said: They really need to have a consistent Monday-Friday schedule. The inconsistency only serves to confuse viewers. If Rachael wants to work a one day a week schedule, let it be on Sunday night. On 3/13/2025 at 3:57 PM, Breaking News said: She getting paid $25Million and you think she will settled in on Sunday night spot? She has a contract that lets her do what she wants at $25Million. If you had that big contract would you want to do a Sunday Night Show instead of Mondays only after The President first 100 days? @TVNewsLoverI get your point about inconsistency but...To piggyback off of @Breaking News, it wouldn't make sense for the network to pay someone that much to anchor on a lower rated slot. Edited March 14 by MediaZone4K 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2402 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Just because FNC has been able to bodge together their own weekend lineup that somehow works for a 'rusted remote' audience doesn't mean that MSNBC or any other network can do it when its competition is sports or event programming. We're talking about an audience that probably still wants Lockup to somehow return, and do we really need yet another Sunday politics show? Also with the late night hosts having long gone to Monday-Thursday, I expect the rest of the industry (including daytime) to follow the same model. We don't need a Maddow Friday show outside when it's required. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1513 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 6 hours ago, nathannah said: We're talking about an audience that probably still wants Lockup to somehow return... If the majority of MSNBC's audience actually wants Lockup to return, the channel is in more trouble than we thought. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainave 597 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Never understood how Joy Reid was able to sustain a career in broadcast -- in liberal media, no less -- after posting a series of bigoted and homophobic/transphobic posts on her blog, then denying she wrote them and claiming someone must have hacked her, and after an investigation involving the FBI (yes, the FBI) proved no evidence of that, she still insisted she had no recollection of making those posts. Would have respected her more had she owned her past views, apologized for them, and explained why she was a better person now, rather than inventing stories and wasting the time and resources of the literal FBI to investigate her lies about being hacked. But since she never took responsibility for that, I'm not sorry to see her go. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1263 Posted Tuesday at 02:59 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 02:59 PM Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan will be joining Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell as host of The Weekend's new primetime extension. It premieres in May. https://deadline.com/2025/04/msnbc-antonia-hylton-elise-jordan-the-weekend-1236355725/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1263 Posted Tuesday at 04:33 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:33 PM Steve Kornacki will leave MSNBC and move over to NBC News and NBC Sports in a new deal post-SpinCo. https://deadline.com/2025/04/steve-kornacki-nbc-news-msnbc-1236355857/ 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14525-msnbc-shake-up/page/33/#findComment-304812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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