MSNBC Plans Evening Shake-Up, Replacement Joy Reid, Alex Wagner
MSNBC’s Avondline-Up can soon look very different from what die-hard viewers have expected.
The NBCUIVERSAL-SUNDED Cable network is expected to move the trio of Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Mendendez and Michael Steele to his 19.00 hrs Weekdag Slot Tuesday to Friday, according to two people who are familiar with the business, and the group will be on Monday there are two lead hours, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The move will have direct implications for Joy Reid, the anchor that is currently filling at 7 p.m. It is expected that she is organizing her last show on MSNBC this week.
What is more, Alex Wagner, who organized at 9 p.m. at 9 p.m., except for a Monday evening led by Rachel Maddow, it is expected to get a contribution, according to three people with knowledge of current conversations. Wagner, who worked as a Correspondent in the US during the first 100 days of the new Trump presidency, while Rachel Maddow Ancherts every day at 9 am, is unlikely that she returns to her week night slot, have indicated these people. Jen Psaki is expected to take over at least one of the hours, according to one of these people. MSNBC is also in conversation with Eugene Daniels of Politico and Melissa Murray, a professor of law at New York University that specializes in the regulation of sex, marriage, care and reproductive rights that would do them to the network in non -specified Capacities, according to one of non -specific capacities, according to one of non -specific capacities, these people.
MSNBC refused to make managers available for comment. Puck previously reported on some of the aforementioned plans.
The movements come soon after Rebecca Kutler, a former senior executive at CNN who is known for its facility in the development of new talent and programming concepts, was named MSNBC’s new president. She takes over from the network because it stands for unique challenges, including the pressure of working with the Trump Witte Huis and are split off together with other NBCU cable networks in a new audience. “Our jobs are difficult on a normal day, and these are not normal times,” she told employees on the day her new role was announced by Mark Lazarus, the NBCU director who will lead the new spin-off.
Just like other cable networks, MSNBC stands for important business challenges. More of the viewers who settle every evening to view a few hours of comments on MSNBC migrate elsewhere. MSNBC is expected to shed around 10.5% of its subscribers between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, according to estimates by Kagan, a market for market research that is part of S&P Global Intelligence. Rivals Fox News Channel and CNN experience similar erosions during that period. MSNBC could be left at the end of 2025 with an average of 61.3 million viewers, compared to 68.5 million in 2023 – and this with an election year, usually an event that brings viewers back to news, between the two milestones.
Kutler has described plans to build an independent news rate for MSNBC, which will lose its ties with NBC news after the new company has been formed. She wants to launch a separate MSNBC Washington agency and add a new schedule of international and domestic correspondents. She also wants to hire a new head of talent, a chief of Washington Bureau and a head of the content strategy. Nevertheless, she has articulated a plan to raise the progressive tendencies from the network, not trying to send it to the middle.
MSNBC has worked to bring viewers back after the results of the 2024 presidential election. Both MSNBC and CNN saw a considerable erosion after the return of Donald Trump to the White House and the National Conversation, and both have unveiled programming shaking in recent weeks. At MSNBC, Rachel Maddow returned to hosting the hour from 9 am from Monday to Friday, compared to the schedule for Monday (with various special performances) that she has enjoyed in recent years. Since the inauguration, the general viewers of MSNBC have risen in Primetime and all day long, although his audience level remains far below that of Fox News Channel.
Kutler helped create “The Weekend”, the show led by Sanders-Townsend, Melendez and Steele, who walked early Saturday and Sunday morning. In the first year in the air, the program has noticeably improved the audience for its time slot in both the overall viewers and in people between 25 and 54, the demographic most preferred of advertisers in news programs. In the meantime, Psaki has been a favorite of MSNBC -executives since the former press secretary of Biden Witte Huis was joined the Line -up of Sunday in March 2023.
Kutler may have more changes in the store and has also looked at MSNBC’s during the day and weekend schedule. The network still has to announce a formal replacement for Andrea Mitchell, the NBC News veteran who anchored an afternoon program for decades and has recently left. Employees are curious if the during the day anchors, who are affiliated with NBC News, will stay at MSNBC during the longer trek.
