“MSNBC is Making ITS LINEUP OVERHAUL Official, Elevating a Handful of Key Talent to the Evens while While Also Making Substantial Changes to Its Weekend and Dayside Hours. The MOST NOTable Changes Were Telegrapped Over the Weekend, and Will See Majoor Changes to Msnbc’s Evening and Primetime Lineupps. As Expectoed, WHEN RAChel Maddow Returns to Her”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The MOST NOTable Changes Were Telegrapped Over the Weekend, and Will See Majoor Changes to Msnbc’s Evening and Primetime Lineupps.
As experted, WHEN RAChel Maddow Returns to Her One Day Per Week Schedule in April, Jen Psaki Will Take Over The 9 PM Hour on Tuesdays-Fridays. An The Weekend Hosts Alicia Menndez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend Will Shift to The 7 PM Hour, While Hosting a Two Hour Show On Mondays from 7-9 pm
As part of the Changes, Msnbc’s Current 7 pm host Joy Reid Will Leave the Channel, with Rotating Hosts Filling in Until The New Lineup Kicks in. Alex Wagner, Who’s Had Been Helming 9 PM on Tuesdays-Fridays, Will Stay with Msnbc as A Senior Political Analyst.
MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler AnnounCed The Changes in a MONDAY, ADDING THAT ”AND HAD HOPED TO Share this with from me. ”
On The WeekendMSNBC WILL INTRODUCE A NEW TRIO OF CO-HOSTS FOR The PROgram, with Jonathan Capehart Working as One of the Morning Hosts, and Ayman Mohyldin to Best of the Host Ali Velshi Will Also Expand His Weekend Show to Three Hours.
In conjunction with msnbc’s spinoff from nbcuniversal, The Cable Channel Will Consolidate Its Production to New York and Washington DC Journalists and Correspondents to Stand Up A New Newsgathering Operation.
As a result, The Channel Will Stop Production Shows Out of Miami, With JOSE DIAZ-BALARART REPORTS an The Katie Phong Show BOTH ENDING PRODUCTION.
Díaz-Balart Will Continue As One of the Weekend Anchors for Nbc Nightly News, While Phang Will Remain With Msnbc as a Legal Correspondent. As a result of the dayside Changes, Ana Cabrera Will Expand and Hour and Anchor Weekday Ana Cabrera Reports from 10 am to 12 pm chris jansing Will Shift to Anchor Chris Jansing Reports from 12 to 2 pm Katy Tur Will Add and Hour to Katy Tur Reports from 2 to 4 pm
You can readler’s memo, belay.
Team,
As i Shared with Many of You A FEW Weeks Ago, My Goal Is To Build on the Successes that have distinguished msnbc from its peers. We now have one of the most Englished audiences in all of television and are seeing rapid Growth Accos Digital, Audio, and More. In the years ahead, we must keep to show up for our audionces in this cryitical moment while simultaneously best positioning OurSelves for the Future.
Today, I am sharing updates to Our Weekday and Weekend Lineups. I HAD HOPED TO Share this with All of You Directly and Understand the FRUSTRATION THAT YOU FIRST LEARNED About This Over the Weekend and Not from Me.
- In primetime, Jen psaki Will Move to The 9 PM Hour on Tuesdays Through Fridays. Since Joinging Msnbc, Psaki Has Become a Crucial and Trusted Voice for the Network. Her Sunday Program is Now the Weekends, Her Expansion to Mondays Has Been A Fast Success, and “The Blueprint with Jen Psaki” have qicly behecome au.
- Following The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration, “The Rachel Maddow Show” Will Return to Mondays at 9 pm
- Symone Sanders Townsnd, Michael Steele, an Alicia MenndezThe Current Co-Hosts of “The Weekend,” Will Move to Weekdays at 7 PM to Host A New Ensemble News Program With A Two-Hour Edition on MONDAYS. Since it Launch, “The Weekend” has seen a signify and Sustaned Increase in Audence Engagement, and we excited to buy that momentum Durying the Week.
- Joy Reid is Leaving the Network and We thank it for hercontributions over the years. Her Work Has Been Recognized With Several Esteemed Honors, Including Most Recently, The 2025 NaACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series. In the coming weeks, Rotating Anchors Will Host.
- Alex Wagner Will Remain A Senior Political Analyst with the Network and Continue to Bring Her Journalistic and Production Expertise to Msnbc Audiences Across All Day Parts. Her Reporting Ahead of the 2024 Election and in the Early Days of the New Administration Has Provides Audiences with An Indisablesable Perspective at a Key Moment in American Politics.
- We are increase Live Programming by Two Hours on the Weekends. Soon, We Will Annoughter A New Trio of Co-Hosts for “The Weekend,” WHICH WILL INCLUDE MSNBC HOST AND THE WASHINGTON POST’S Jonathan Capehart. We Will Also Introduce An Evening Evening Edition of the Program, Hosted by A Different Group of Anchors, Including Veteran Msnbc Host Ayman Mohyeldin. We will have more to share in the weeks ahead.
- Ali Velshi Will Also Expand His Namesake Program, “Velshi” to Three Hours on the weekends.
- In the coming months, MSNBC Will Consolidate It Broadcasts to New York and Washington, DC and Sunset Our Production Operations in Miami. This Change Will Impact The Miami-Based Shows “JOSE DIAZ-BALARART REPORTS” an “The Katie Phong Show.” Díaz-Balart Will Remain With NBC News As Anchor of “Weekend Nightly News” and Phang Will Remain with Msnbc as a LEGAL CORRESPONDENT.
- On the dayside front, “Ana Cabrera Reports” Will Expand to 10 am to 12 pm; “Chris Jansing Reports” Will Shift to 12 to 2 pm, and and “Katy Tur Reports” Will Add Another Hour to Anchor from 2 to 4 pm
Unless OtherWise Noted Above, Tese Changes Will Go Into Effect in Late April.
In the coming months, I will have more News to Share on Expanding Our Washington Operation, Including Establishing A Bureau, and Building A Team of Domestic and International Correspondents.
Thank you for your Continued Commitment to Our Shared Mission of Keeping Our Audiences Informed Across All of Our Platforms.
Team Leaders and HR Managers Will Meet With Various Groups Throughout the Day to Discusses All of this in More Detail.
Weekday Programming 5 am et “Way Too Early with Ali vitali” 6 am et “Morning Joe with Joe ScarboRough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist” 10 am et “Ana Cabrera Reports” 12 pm et“Chris Jansing Reports” 2 pm et “Katy Tur Reports” 4 pm et “Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace”6 pm et “The Beat with Ari Melber” 7 pm et Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, Alicia Menndez 8 pm et“All in with Chris Hayes” on tuesdays – Fridays; Symone Sanders Townsnd, Michael Steele, Alicia Menndez on Mondays 9 pm et “The Rachel Maddow Show” on mondays; Jen Psaki on Tuesdays – Fridays 10 pm et“The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” 11 pm et “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” Weekend Programming 7 am et “The Weekend” co-hosted by Jonathan Capehart10 am et“Velshi” 1 pm et“Alex Witt Reports”4 pm et“BEST OF”5 pm et“Politicsnation with Rev. Al Sharpton ”6 pm et“The Weekend” co-hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin Thank you,
Rebecca