MSNBC is about to replace three shows.

[all3rd]

Exclusive: More MSNBC Changes Coming with Three Shows Out, Hard News and Chuck Todd Back

Exclusive: More MSNBC Changes Coming with Three Shows Out, Hard News and Chuck Todd Back

A well-placed source tells me MSNBC will announce today major changes to its afternoon lineup…arguably the most significant revamp the network has made at one time in its 19-year history.



Out: The Cycle at 3:00 PM. Now with Alex Wagner at 4:00 PM. The Ed Show with Ed Schultz at 5:00 PM (all times eastern).

In: Chuck Todd at 5:00 PM. Similar to Jake Tapper at CNN doing both weekday afternoons (hosting The Lead) and anchoring Sunday morning’s State of the Union, Todd will also continue to work weekends as moderator of Sunday’s Meet the Press. Todd’s MSNBC show will likely take on its old name The Daily Rundown, but that is not a guarantee.

More interesting: Andrea Mitchell will keep her program at noon (Andrea Mitchell Reports). Thomas Roberts will continue to anchor his midday news program from 1:00-3:00 PM. The programs being cancelled at 3:00 PM (The Cycle) and 4:00 PM (Now with Alex Wagner) will be replaced by a straight news program (similar to Roberts’ two-hour newscast preceding it). Whether that 3:00-5:00 PM slot goes to Brian Williams is not known at this time, but it would certainly make the most sense to put Williams directly up against Fox’s Shepard Smith (Shepard Smith Reporting) and CNN’s Brooke Baldwin (CNN Newsroom) for the first hour in a similar format.

Since coming on four months ago, relatively new NBC News Chief Andy Lack is obviously making his presence felt. Ratings are in the toilet…it somehow finished 5th in a four-horse race recently. Staffers and talent are walking on eggshells. And unless your last name is Matthews, Maddow or your first name Joe or Mika, nobody appears safe, as Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell reported exclusively earlier this week.

Once self-dubbed The Place for Politics, MSNBC goes back to its 1996 roots: More news, less talk.

The place for politics pertains only to mornings and prime-time now. Lack quickly realized that the lack of balance via almost all opinion programming and very little hard news offerings was killing the network as audiences ran to CNN and Fox in droves when any big breaking story was happening. The good news for fans of the network is the Lack’s actually doing something about it…all while tapping resources from the NBC Mothership to help make it happen without breaking the bank.

Fixing dayside was a no-brainer. 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM are likely next. Some old faces may be returning. MSNBC will soon look very different, courtesy of the biggest change in its lineup in nearly two decades.

And Andy Lack isn’t done shaking things up at 30 Rock…not by a long shot.

So Ed starts promoting Bernie and he is out for Pro Clinton Todd.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

I thought ed's show got moved to the weekends or at the least has been on the verge of getting cancelled?

 

[Jello Biafra]

MSNBC has been a shythole for ages but it is getting embarrassing now. I read one report that said some of their shows were regularly losing to Al-Jazeera which is insane considering the difference in household availability between the two networks. The network needs to get rid of that nest of idiocy and misinformation called Morning Joe too.
Also heard there is talk of MSNBC trying to get Olbermann back too.

I am curious as to how Al Sharpton's show isn't on the chopping block. Nobody watched that either.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Gotta get rid of Sharpton. Dude is a political black hole

 

[hayesc0]

Alex Wagner is bad that is all.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Honestly can't rememba da last time I've sat down and watched any of dese cable news networks for more than 5 minutes.

 

[NZA]

ed has run his course, he needs to go
alex was always kinda wack
the cycle always was useless
sharpton goes from embarrassing to just hard to watch

chuck and brian williams are good, and of course they need olbermann back

they should throw caution to the wind and let sam seder and cenk have weekend shows. i know cenk left in a bad way but MSNBC is circling the drain. they need to get crazy

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

ed has run his course, he needs to go
alex was always kinda wack
the cycle always was useless
sharpton goes from embarrassing to just hard to watch

chuck and brian williams are good, and of course they need olbermann back

they should throw caution to the wind and let sam seder and cenk have weekend shows. i know cenk left in a bad way but MSNBC is circling the drain. they need to get crazy

They need liberals with balls...who aren't annoying blowhards of which the likes Maddow has sadly become

 

[Street Knowledge]

Progressive telivision and radio will never get the ratings of their conservative counterpart

 

[duckbutta]

MSNBC has been a shythole for ages but it is getting embarrassing now. I read one report that said some of their shows were regularly losing to Al-Jazeera which is insane considering the difference in household availability between the two networks. The network needs to get rid of that nest of idiocy and misinformation called Morning Joe too.
Also heard there is talk of MSNBC trying to get Olbermann back too.

I am curious as to how Al Sharpton's show isn't on the chopping block. Nobody watched that either.

Pretty much the only news network I watch ...outside of putting it on cnn whenever I go to sleep at night

 

[wheywhey]

I am curious as to how Al Sharpton's show isn't on the chopping block. Nobody watched that either.

Al Sharpton's job is a legal way to transfer bribe money.

Byron Allen says that Al Sharpton is getting $750,000 a year for supporting Comcast on issues of diversity.

 

[Jello Biafra]

They need liberals with balls...who aren't annoying blowhards of which the likes Maddow has sadly become

Some rumors say that the folks in charge at MSNBC want to move away from being considered the "liberal 24 hour news channel" and move things more towards the center/center-right. So that probably means more shows like that shytty Morning Joe garbage.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Progressive telivision and radio will never get the ratings of their conservative counterpart

they'r not as hateful or seen as "strong"

 

[TRFG]

Honestly can't rememba da last time I've sat down and watched any of dese cable news networks for more than 5 minutes.

I'd rather get breaking news from Twitter. Even that is less opinionated

 

[CHL]

Progressive telivision and radio will never get the ratings of their conservative counterpart

But progressive media will get far more views on the internet than it's conservative counterpart

Also you're kidding yourself if you think MSNBC is a progressive network.