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MS NOW will move to taped podcast and different contented successful nan post-6 p.m. ET hours connected play nights, arsenic nan web points to occurrence pinch a contented statement pinch Crooked Media.
The web said that The Weekend: Primetime will extremity connected Saturday, pinch co-anchor Antonia Hylton moving to nan 1 p.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET play hours successful nan coming months. Co-anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Elise Jordan and Catherine Rampell will stay astatine nan web and lend reporting crossed its programming.
Alex Witt besides has announced that she is departing MS NOW later this summer, having first joined predecessor MSNBC successful 1999. She astir precocious had anchored connected play afternoons.
The planned changes, group to commencement connected Sunday, were unveiled successful a memo connected Friday from MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler.
“As we hole for a important finance successful our direct-to-consumer offering and proceed processing caller programming, contented partnerships, and unrecorded assemblage experiences, we are realigning our play resources to support this growth,” Kutler wrote successful a memo to employees.
She noted that Crooked Media connected MS NOW, which started successful February, was nan network’s strongest motorboat for a taped bid among full viewers successful 3 years, and successful nan 25-54 demo successful 4 years. The show features moments from Pod Save America, Pod Save nan World, Strict Scrutiny and Lovett aliases Leave It, among different podcasts. The web is expected to adhd further taped hours and programs and contented partnerships passim nan summer, successful summation to podcasts from Chris Hayes and Nicolle Wallace.
The web will proceed to beryllium staffed during nan play evening hours for breaking news coverage, while it has a business pinch Sky News for world simulcasts.
Kutler called Witt “a continued, trusted, and dependable beingness for our audiences. She has covered multiple presidential and midterm predetermination cycles, countless historical world events, and awesome breaking news moments crossed nan country.” Witt has anchored much hours for nan web than immoderate different anchor successful nan network’s history, she noted, citing breaking news events ranging from 9/11 to nan Covid pandemic.
Variety first reported connected nan MS NOW changes.
Kutler said that nan changes would effect “a mini number of roles.” She wrote that nan web has much than 40 unfastened positions and much than a twelve roles would beryllium posted soon.
