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MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.First launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts news coverage and liberal political commentary.
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While a senior vice president at NBC News and MSNBC, she led a shift from election coverage to a focus on COVID-19. [10] On February 1, 2021, Jones succeeded Phil Griffin as the president of MSNBC and became the first African-American woman to run a major cable news network. [11]
NBCNews.com logo used from 2012 until 2018. On February 5, 2014, a major redesign of NBCNews.com was introduced; NBC News president Deborah Turness explained that the new design is intended to "[tear] down the walls that traditionally have divided TV and digital", by emphasizing multimedia content, original features, and more original reporting from NBC News personalities.
After all, NBC considered changing the MSNBC moniker after it bought out Microsoft’s share of the network in 2005. (Microsoft was the "MS" is MSNBC.) But the plan was rejected because the name ...
Under Sassa, NBC rated as the No. 1 network for three out of four seasons. Garth Ancier: 1999–2000: Ancier, who also worked as a television producer (most notably, serving as executive producer of tabloid talk show Ricki Lake) prior to joining the network, was named President of NBC Entertainment in 1999. Jeff Zucker: 2000–2004
By 2009, NBC had established leadership in network news, airing the highest-rated morning, evening, and Sunday interview news programs. [23] Its ability to share costs with MSNBC and share in the cable network's advertising and subscriber revenue made it far more profitable than its network rivals. [24] NBC Nightly News broadcast, March 2008.
Microsoft invested $220 million for a 50% share of the cable network, while MSNBC and Microsoft would share the cost of a $200 million newsroom in Redmond, Washington for MSNBC. NBC supplied the channel space that was occupied by the 18-month-old America's Talking network. Its name is a combination of "MSN" and "NBC".