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MSNBC
msnbc Satellite radio
XM Channel 117[4]
Sirius Channel 117[4]
IPTV
Launched July 15, 1996
AT&T U-verse (US) Channel 215 (SD)
Owned by NBCUniversal Channel 1215 (HD)
Picture format 480i (4:3 SDTV) Canada)
Bell FibeTV (Canada) Channel 1506 (HD)
1080i (16:9 HDTV)[1]
Canada)
TELUS TV (Canada) Channel 97
Slogan "Lean Forward"[2]
Channel 103 (SD)
"The Place For Politics"[3]
Channel 603 (HD)
Country United States
Internet television
Language English
RadixTV 22[5]
Broadcast area United States
Canada msnbc)
MSNBC (stylized as msnbc is a cable news channel based
Headquarters 30 Rockefeller Center
in the United States available in the US, Germany (Berlin,
New York City Local), South Africa, the Middle East and Canada. Its
name is derived from the most common abbreviations
Formerly called America’s Talking
for Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Company.[6]
(1994–1996)
msnbc.com, a separate company, is the central news
Sister channel(s) CNBC website for the NBC News family, featuring interactivity
CNBC World and multimedia plus original stories and video which
NBC
augment the content from NBC News and partners.[7]
The Weather Channel
NBC Sports MSNBC and msnbc.com were founded in 1996 as a
partnership of Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit,
Website msnbc.com which is now NBCUniversal. Although Microsoft and NBC
Availability shared operations of MSNBC cable at its founding, it was
announced on December 23, 2005, that NBCUniversal
Terrestrial
would purchase a majority stake in the television chan-
Selective TV Inc. K57JX (Channel 57) nel, which left Microsoft with 18%, later reduced to ze-
MN)
(Alexandria, MN) ro.[8] The two companies remain partners in msnbc.com.
WPXW-TV Mobile-DTV Channel 66.4 MSNBC shares the NBC logo of a rainbow peacock with
(Manassas, Virginia )
Virginia) its sister channels NBC, CNBC, NBC Sports Network, and
ShopNBC. MSNBC is available in over 78 million house-
MSNBC DVB-T Channel 23
(Berlin, Germany)
Germany)
holds in the United States.[9]
Following several years in which many observers not-
Satellite ed promotion of liberal political positions and emergence
DirecTV (US) Channel 356 (SD/HD) of politically partisan views in the channel’s program-
ming, MSNBC publicly acknowledged its progressivism
Dish Network (US) Channel 209 (SD/HD) in October 2010 while launching a marketing campaign
Bell TV (Canada) Channel 1588 (HD) with the tagline "Lean Forward."[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
In a June 2011 interview, MSNBC president Phil Griffin
Shaw Direct (Canada) Channel 511
stated that "MSNBC has established a sensibility, a posi-
Cable tion, a platform" and that "MSNBC is really the place to
go for progressives."[17]
Available on most cable Check local listings
systems
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History would have the option, which it exercised, to buy the
remaining 18% share from Microsoft after two years.
MSNBC, which along with other US news networks had
Development been criticized of having a distorted and biased Media
MSNBC was established by NBC executive Tom Rogers. coverage of the Iraq War began from 2005 onwards to
Rogers was instrumental in developing the strategic attract liberal and progressive viewers when host Keith
partnership with Microsoft, which invested $220 million Olbermann began critiquing and satirizing conservative
for a 50% share of the cable channel.[18] MSNBC and Mi- media commentators in his program Countdown With Kei-
crosoft would share the cost of a $200 million newsroom th Olbermann. Olbermann especially focused his attention
in Secaucus, New Jersey, for msnbc.com. NBC supplied to Fox News Channel and its main primetime anchor, Bill
the space with an 18-month-old America’s Talking net- O’Reilly.
work. In June 2006, Don Kaplan of the tabloid New York Post
(owned by News Corporation, which also owns Fox News)
Early history wrote a column titled "Do We Need MSNBC?" Address-
Main article: History of MSNBC: 1996–2007 ing MSNBC’S low ratings, Kaplan quoted CNN co-founder
MSNBC was launched on July 15, 1996. The first show, Reese Schonfeld, who said that "[e]verybody compares
which was anchored by Jodi Applegate, broadcast a line- MSNBC to Fox and CNN — when its real competition is
up of news, interviews, and opinions.[19] During the day, Headline News". Schonfeld pointed out that the ratings
rolling news coverage continued with The Contributors, a for MSNBC and Headline News are roughly the same,
show that featured Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, as about 300,000 viewers on average and that "by compar-
well as interactive programming coordinated by Apple- ison, Fox and CNN regularly average three or four times
gate, John Gibson, and John Seigenthaler. Stories were as many viewers." In the column Kaplan remarked that
generally longer and more detailed than the stories run- "the running joke in TV news is Fox and CNN are news
ning on CNN at the time. NBC also highlighted their channels with websites, but MSNBC is a website with
broadcast connections by airing stories direct from the a cable channel".[25] On June 7, 2006, Rick Kaplan re-
NBC network affiliates, along with breaking news cover- signed as president of MSNBC, after holding the post for
age from the same sources.[20] two years.[26] Following the announcement, it was an-
Gradually MSNBC began to put more emphasis on nounced on June 12, 2006, that Dan Abrams, a nine-year
politics[21] The Project for Excellence in Journalism veteran of MSNBC and NBC News, had been named Gen-
found in 2007 after a seven year survey of cable channels eral Manager of the NBC News 24-hour cable news tele-
that "MSNBC is moving to make politics a brand, with vision channel, effective immediately. NBC News Senior
a large dose of opinion and personality."[22] In January Vice President Phil Griffin would oversee MSNBC. Griffin
2001, Mike Barnicle got a show on MSNBC, but it was would also continue to oversee NBC News’ Today, and
canceled in June 2001 due to high production costs.[23] Abrams would report to Griffin.
In June, in a sign of continuing trouble at MSNBC, Mi- On June 29, 2006, Abrams announced a revamp to
crosoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that he would not have MSNBC’s early-primetime and primetime schedule. On
started MSNBC if he knew then what he knows now.[24] July 10, Tucker (formerly The Situation with Tucker Carlson)
After the September 11, 2001 attacks, MSNBC served as started airing at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET (taking over
an outlet for NBC News to provide up-to-the-minute cov- Abrams’ old timeslot), while Rita Cosby’s Live & Direct was
erage, in contrast to broadcast NBC’s longer stories. CNBC taken off the schedule. Cosby was instead given the role
and CNBC Europe, with little financial news to report, ran of primary anchor for MSNBC Investigates at 10 and 11
MSNBC for many hours of the day following the attacks. p.m. ET, a new program that took over Cosby and Carl-
The year also boosted the profile of Ashleigh Banfield, son’s timeslots. According to the press release, MSNBC In-
who had escaped injury while covering the World Trade vestigates promised to "...complement MSNBC’s existing
Center on September 11. Her Region In Conflict program programming by building on [the channel’s] library of
capitalized on her newfound celebrity and showcased ex- award winning documentaries."[27] The move to taped
clusive interviews from Afghanistan. programming during 10 and 11 p.m. was likely a result
On December 23, 2005, it was announced that NBC of the success that MSNBC saw with their Friday "ex-
Universal would acquire an additional 32% share of the periment" of replacing all primetime programming with
television channel from Microsoft, solidifying its control taped specials. On September 24, 2007, Abrams an-
over television operations and allowing NBC to further nounced that he would leave the position of General
consolidate MSNBC’s backroom operations with NBC Manager to focus on his 9:00 p.m. ET talk show, "Live
News and its other cable properties. Msnbc.com would With Dan Abrams". Oversight of MSNBC is now provided
continue to be 50% owned by both NBC and Microsoft, by Phil Griffin, a senior vice president at NBC.[28]
and its operations would be largely unaffected. NBC MSNBC and NBC News launched broadcasts from their
new studios at NBC’s "30 Rock" complex in New York City
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From mid-2007 to mid-2008, MSNBC received a large in-
crease in its ratings.[30] Primetime viewings increased by
61% over that time.[30] In May 2008, NBC News Presi-
dent Steve Capus said that "It used to be people didn’t
have to worry about MSNBC because it was an also-ran
cable channel.... That’s not the case anymore."[30] Tim
Russert’s sudden death in June 2008 removed what The
Wall Street Journal called the "rudder for the network" and
led to a period of transition.[31]
During the 2008 Presidential election, MSNBC’s cov-
erage was anchored by Keith Olbermann, Chris
Matthews, and David Gregory. The three were widely
viewed as the face of the channel’s political coverage.[31]
During the first three months of the presidential cam-
MSNBC’s current studio in NYC paign, MSNBC’s ratings grew by 158 percent.[32] Howev-
er, during the election coverage, anchors Keith Olber-
mann and Chris Matthews were criticized for expressing
left-leaning viewpoints on the channel, and both of them
were later removed from the position of anchor.[33] Au-
dience viewership during the 2008 Presidential election
more than doubled from the 2004 Presidential election,
and the channel topped CNN in ratings for the first time
during the last three months of the campaign in the key
25-54 age demographic.[34][35]
In September 2008, the channel hired political ana-
lyst Rachel Maddow to host a new political opinion pro-
gram called The Rachel Maddow Show. The move to create a
new program for the channel was widely seen as a smart
ratings move, where beforehand, MSNBC lagged behind
in coveted primetime ratings.[36] Now, the show regular-
The current MSNBC studio ly outperforms CNN’s Larry King Live, and made the chan-
nel competitive in the program’s time slot for the first
on October 22, 2007.[29] After extensive renovations of time in over a decade.[37][38]
the associated studios, NBC essentially merged its entire In the first quarter of 2010, MSNBC beat CNN in
news operation into one building, and all MSNBC broad- primetime and overall ratings, marking the first time do-
casts, as well as the NBC Nightly News program, originate in ing so since 2001.[39] The channel also beat CNN in to-
the new studios. More than 12.5 hours of live television tal adult viewers in March, marking the seventh out of
across the NBC News family originate from the New York the past eight months MSNBC achieved that result.[39] In
studios daily. MSNBC is also expected to expand West addition, the programs Morning Joe, The Ed Show, Hardball
Coast operations, as the channel recently announced new with Chris Matthews, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and
studios near the Universal Studios lot, which will assem- The Rachel Maddow Show all finished ahead of their time
ble all NBC West Coast news operations in one building. slot competitors on CNN.[39]
MSNBC’s Master Control did not make the move to 30 In the third quarter of 2010, MSNBC continued its sol-
Rock. It remained in the old Secaucus headquarters until id lead over CNN, beating the network in total day for
it completed its move to the NBC Universal Network the first time since 2Q 2001 in the key adult demograph-
Origination Center located inside the CNBC Global Head- ic.[40] The network also beat CNN for the fourth consec-
quarters building in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on De- utive quarter, among both primetime and total viewers,
cember 21, 2007. Shortly thereafter, Major League Base- as well as becoming the only cable news network to have
ball firmed up a long-term lease of the former MSNBC its key adult demographic viewership grow over the last
building to become the home studios of MLB Network, quarter, increasing by 4%. During this time, MSNBC also
which launched from the facility on January 1, 2009. became the number-one cable news network in prime-
time among both African American and Hispanic view-
Changes since 2008 ers.[40]
Main article: History of MSNBC: 2008–present On 11 October 2010, MSNBC unveiled a new televised
advertising campaign and slogan called "Lean Forward".
"We’ve taken on CNN and we beat them," MSNBC Presi-
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dent Phil Griffin told employees at a series of celebratory A suit from Verizon to the FCC was filed in order to
"town hall" meetings. "Now it’s time to take on Fox." force the termination of this deal. Connecticut attorney
Concerning the campaign, Griffin said, "It is active, it is general Richard Blumenthal wrote to new FCC chairman
positive, it is about making tomorrow better than to- Julius Genachowski, agreeing with Verizon, saying that
day, a discussion about politics and the actions and pas- the deal may be illegal.[48] After reaching a new contract,
sions of our time."[41] The new campaign embraces the FiOS added the channel in New York City and in New
network’s politically progressive identity.[42] The two- Jersey on February 2, 2010.[49]
year advertising campaign will cost $2 million and will
consist of Internet, television, and print advertising.[41]
The new positioning has created brand image issues for
High Definition
msnbc.com, the umbrella website for the television net- MSNBC HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of MSNBC
work. A New York Times article quotes Charlie Tillinghast, that launched on June 29, 2009. All studio shows and se-
president of msnbc.com, a separate company, as saying, lect long form programs air in HD.[50]
“Both strategies are fine, but naming them the same Cablevision was the only provider to carry MSNBC HD
thing is brand insanity.”[43] As a result, msnbc.com is at its launch date.[51] Dish Network added the HD channel
considering changing its name to prevent confusion with on July 8.[52] Time Warner Cable launched the HD feed on
the television network, MSNBC.[43] July 22 in the New York area.[52] The feed was made avail-
On January 21, 2011, Olbermann announced his de- able in late July in Ithaca, NY on Time Warner. Bright
parture from MSNBC and the episode would be the final House Networks added the HD feed in July.[53] Verizon
episode of Countdown.[44][45] MSNBC issued a statement FiOS added MSNBC HD on February 11, 2010.[54] DirecTV
that it had ended its contract with Olbermann, with no added the HD channel on May 19, 2010.
further explanation. Keith Olbermann later revealed that Comcast has also added MSNBC HD in several mar-
he had taken his show to Current TV. It is expected to kets,[citation needed] though this seems to be on a market-
compete with MSNBC following Olbermann’s debut on to-market addition in which they add the channel one
the network in late spring 2011.[46] market at a time instead of adding the channel to all mar-
kets in one move, leaving some customers (e.g. in Vir-
ginia) still without access.
Carriage issues Charter Communications has launched MSNBC HD in
numerous markets.
In Canada, Bell TV and Bell FibeTV are currently of-
fering MSNBC HD.
Graphics
Prior to 2009, MSNBC used a graphic scheme which con-
tained highly angular shapes.
Beginning on June 29, 2009, MSNBC officially
launched a new graphic scheme co-created by Adam
Gault Studios and Carlo Vega, whereby a newly-rede-
signed MSNBC logo, current series title, time, stocks
number and (when necessary) "live" bug were moved
to the top of the screen, leaving the lower thirds to be
used by the news ticker, story title and short summary,
MSNBC’s former New Jersey headquarters studio, now the the last of which is replaced frequently by the name of
home of MLB Network the guest or correspondent currently being shown. For a
short time in 2009 from the debut, MSNBC HD daytime
MSNBC was not available to Verizon FiOS and AT&T U- included a widget on the right side of the screen which
verse TV subscribers in portions of New York, northern served as a secondary news ticker displaying the weather
New Jersey and Connecticut which overlapped with and news headlines as well as a blue bar which showed
Cablevision’s cable television territory until 2010. The more stocks and business news graphics, but both fea-
reason for the lack of availability was, in part, due to tures were eventually dropped in favor of full video en-
an exclusive carriage agreement that MSNBC entered in- compassing both sides of the screen; the widget reflected
to with Cablevision, which prohibited competing wired a similar widget which appears on CNBC HD for the dis-
providers from carrying MSNBC.[47] The terms of the play of a stocks graph chart (and which has been retained
agreement were not publicly known. to the present day). The news ticker only appears during
news bulletins and rolling-news broadcasts, and is re-
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moved from the screen during talk shows and documen- midnight ET in a block that repeats twice (live for the
taries. first airing), with local Weather Channel forecasts.[55]
Botswana’s national television broadcaster, BTV, also
International broadcasts provides an un-edited broadcast of MSNBC (including ad-
vertisements) after their scheduled programming each
evening. BTV is available within Botswana, as well as to
Southern Africa viewers on DStv. TopTV, a satellite TV
service in South Africa, also provides an un-edited broad-
cast of MSNBC (including advertisements), which runs
throughout the day (24/7).
Europe and Asia
In Asia and Europe, MSNBC is not shown on a channel
of its own. When MSNBC started in 1996 they announced
plans to start broadcasting in Europe during 1997. This
never happened; however, MSNBC is shown for a few
hours a day on the 24 hour news network Orbit News in
Europe and the Middle East. Orbit News is a network of
three 24 hour satellite and cable channels offering exclu-
sively American news programming from ABC, NBC, PBS,
and MSNBC to U.S. expats and other viewers abroad, pri-
marily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries.
NBC Nightly News was shown on CNBC Europe as a
part of its primetime lineup until April 2010, due to in-
ternational distribution changes made by NBC Univer-
sal.[56] During breaking news events, CNBC-e, MSNBC is
also shown occasionally on affiliate channel CNBC
Europe.[57]
The monitors of the MSNBC newsroom are tuned in to various NTV-MSNBC
global channels.
In Turkey, NTV-MSNBC is the news channel of the Turk-
ish broadcaster NTV Turkey. The channel is a joint part-
MSNBC is shown only in the United States, Canada, South
nership between the two, although very little Turkish
Africa, parts of Latin America, and parts of Northern
content makes its way onto English MSNBC. English con-
Africa (see below).
tent on MSNBC is translated to Turkish.[58]
MSNBC Canada
In 2001, a Canadian version with some local content, Online
MSNBC Canada, was developed; however, it was soon dis-
continued in 2004, and the American version began air-
ing in Canada. The channel was operated by Rogers Com-
munications and co-owned by Rogers, Shaw and MSNBC,
with each party owned a 33.33% voting interest in the
service. The channel launched on September 7, 2001.
Programming included MSNBC programs as well as
repeats of shows from CBC and Cable Public Affairs Chan-
nel, as its way to fulfil its Canadian content requirements.
They also ran infomercials, which the American service
never shows.
MSNBC Africa
In Southern Africa, MSNBC is distributed free-to-air on
satellite on Free2View TV as MSNBC Africa, a joint ven- MSNBC celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2006
ture between Great Media Limited and MSNBC.
Free2View airs MSNBC’s programming from 4 p.m. to Main article: msnbc.com
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Current programming
Weekdays
Saturdays
Sundays
Msnbc.com’s main newsroom in Redmond, WA MSNBC/NBC news anchors,
commentators and correspon-
dents
Msnbc.com’s newsroom in NYC
Msnbc.com, a separate company from MSNBC cable, is
the online news outlet for the NBC News family, includ-
ing network shows such as Today, NBC Nightly News, and
MSNBC’s former NJ HQ Studio
Dateline NBC, as well as MSNBC TV. In addition to NBC
News content and material produced by the site’s own
staff, msnbc.com also hosts articles and features from
several partners, including The Washington Post and
Newsweek magazine.
The web site is developed in Redmond, Washington,
on the Microsoft campus and news content is produced
out of newsrooms in Redmond, New York, and London. It
is the news provider for MSN, the portal site and online
service operated by Microsoft, but it is editorially and fi-
nancially separate.
On April 2, 2007, msnbc.com launched a new logo and
a new slogan, "A Fuller Spectrum of News."
According to Nielsen Online, msnbc.com has risen
above Yahoo! News and CNN for the position of top news
site from June 2008 through May 2009, measured by MSNBC’s current NYC HQ studio
unique visitors in the U.S.[59]
• Ron Allen • Willie Geist • Andrea • Bill Seward
Radio • Jonathan • David Mitchell • Janet
Alter Gregory • Natalie Shamlian
The channel launched on XM Satellite Radio channel 120
• Mike • Savannah Morales • Al
and Sirius Satellite Radio channel 90 on April 12, 2010.[4]
Barnicle Guthrie • Lisa Myers Sharpton
This is the second time MSNBC has been on satellite ra-
• Martin • Tamron Hall • Kelly • Nancy
dio; the channel has been on XM before, but was sub-
Bashir • Chris Hansen O’Donnell Snyderman
sequently dropped from the service on September 4,
• Robert • Chris Hayes • Lawrence • Michael
2006.[60]
Bazell O’Donnell Steele
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ET Program Hosts Location Description
5a-5.30a First Look Lynn Berry, Studio 3K, Early morning news program.
Veronica De La New York Ci-
Cruz ty
5.30a-6a Way Too Early with Wil- Willie Geist Studio 3A, Described by the network as a "pre-game"
lie Geist New York Ci- show for Morning Joe.
6a-9a Morning Joe Joe Scarborough, ty News talk show with analysis, commentary,
Mika Brzezinski, and the headlines of the day.
and Willie Geist
9a-10a The Daily Rundown Chuck Todd Washington, Host and guests focus on political stories of the
D.C. day.
10a-11a Jansing & Co. Chris Jansing w/ Studio 3A, News and discussion of issues with guests.
Richard Lui New York Ci-
11a-12p MSNBC Live Thomas Roberts ty News program.
12p-1p Now with Alex Wagner Alex Wagner
1p-2p Andrea Mitchell Reports Andrea Mitchell Washington, An all political hour of interviews and analysis.
D.C.
2p-3p NewsNation with Tam- Tamron Hall Studio 3A, News analysis.
ron Hall New York Ci-
3p-4p Martin Bashir Martin Bashir ty News analysis and interviews.
4p-5p The Dylan Ratigan Show Dylan Ratigan Host and panel analyze economic and financial
news.
5p-6p Hardball with Chris Chris Matthews Washington, Political talk/interview program. Replays at
Matthews D.C. 7pm, 2am, 5am (Saturdays), and 7am (Sundays)
6p-7p PoliticsNation with Al Al Sharpton Studio 3A, Political talk/interview program.
Sharpton New York Ci-
ty
8p-9p The Ed Show Ed Schultz Studio 3K, Political opinion program. Replays at 11pm, and
New York Ci- 3am
ty
9p-10p The Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow Studio 3A, Political opinion program. Replay at 12am and
Show New York Ci- 4am
ty
10p-11p The Last Word with Lawrence Studio 3K, Political opinion program.Replay at 1am.
(Mon- Lawrence O’Donnell O’Donnell New York Ci-
Thurs) ty
• Lynn • Courtney • Norah • Mike• Tom • Richard Lui • Luke
Berry Hazlett O’Donnell Taibbi Costello • Rachel Russert
• Contessa • Page • JJ Ramberg •
• Chuck Lee Maddow • Kerry
Brewer Hopkins • Milissa Todd Cowan • Chris Sanders
• Tom • Lester Holt Rehberger • Brian• Ann Curry Matthews • Joe
Brokaw • Chris Jansing • Dylan • Richard
Williams • Craig Melvin Scarborough
• Dara • Bill Karins Ratigan • Pete Engel • Jim • Ed Schultz
Brown • Michelle • Amy Robach • Susan
Williams Miklaszewski
• Mika Kosinski • Thomas Filan
• Alex Witt
Brzezinski • Hoda Kotb Roberts •
• Jenna Martin
• Pat • Matt Lauer • Fred Roggin Wolfe Fletcher
Buchanan • George Lewis • Jeff Rossen • John Yang
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ET Program Hosts Location Description
5.00a-5.30a Best of Hardball with Chris Washington, A recap of the best segments from the previous
Chris Matthews Matthews D.C. week.
7a-9a Up with Chris Hayes Chris Hayes GE Building, Weekend morning show focusing on politics hosted
New York by the MSNBC contributor and Editor-at-Large of
City The Nation.
9a-12p Weekends with Alex Alex Witt GE Building, The long-time weekend anchor covers the day’s top
Witt New York news stories with analysis, including breaking sto-
City ries, formerly MSNBC Live.
12p-7a MSNBC Documentaries Various Various MSNBC and NBC News documentaries, including
(Sundays) Lockup (Marathon 6p-5a) and Dateline NBC.
ET Program Hosts Location Description
7.00a-7.30a Best of Hardball with Chris Washington, A recap of the best segments from the previous
Chris Matthews Matthews D.C. week.
7.30a-8a Your Business JJ Ramberg GE Building, News and analysis about small business. Replays at
New York 5.30am Saturdays
City
8a-10a Up with Chris Hayes Chris Hayes GE Building, Weekend morning show focusing on politics hosted
New York by the MSNBC contributor and Editor-at-Large of
City The Nation.
10a-12p Weekends with Alex Alex Witt GE Building, The long-time weekend anchor covers the day’s top
Witt New York news stories with analysis, including breaking sto-
City ries, formerly MSNBC Live.
12p-2p MSNBC Documentaries Various Various MSNBC and NBC News documentaries, including
Caught On Camera, Dateline NBC and special editions
of To Catch a Predator
2p-3p Meet the Press David Gregory Washington, Same day re-air of the weekly Sunday morning talk
D.C. show carried on the NBC network. Replays at 2am
and 4am (Monday morning)
3p-4a MSNBC Documentaries Various Various MSNBC and NBC News documentaries, including
(Monday) Caught On Camera, Dateline NBC and special editions
of To Catch a Predator
• Michelle
Franzen
Criticism and controversy
Assertions of liberal bias
Commentators have described MSNBC as having a bias
towards left-leaning politics and the Democratic Party.
In November 2007, a New York Times article stated that
MSNBC’s prime-time lineup is tilting more to the left.[10]
Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz has stated
that the channel’s evening lineup "has clearly gravitated
to the left in recent years and often seems to regard itself
MSNBC’s current NYC HQ studio
as the antithesis of Fox News."[30] In 2011, Salon.com not-
ed that "MSNBC’s prime-time lineup is now awash in pro-
gressive politics."[61] That same year, Politico referred to
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MSNBC as "left-leaning."[62] In reference to changes in Assertions of pro-Obama bias
the channel’s evening programming, senior vice presi-
Some Democratic Party supporters, most notably Penn-
dent of NBC News Phil Griffin has said that "It happened
sylvania Governor Ed Rendell and Clinton advisor Lanny
naturally. There isn’t a dogma we’re putting through.
Davis,[72] criticized MSNBC during and after the 2008 De-
There is a ‘Go for it.’”[10]
mocratic Primaries, as covering Barack Obama more fa-
A study conducted by Harvard University on media
vorably than Hillary Clinton.[73][73][74] A study done by
bias during the 2008 presidential election found that "A
the Project for Excellence in Journalism showed that
positive tone pervaded (on MSNBC) coverage of candi-
MSNBC had less negative coverage of Obama (14% of sto-
dates from both parties. Nearly half (47%) of the stories
ries vs. 29% in the press overall) and more negative sto-
about Democratic candidates were positive, vs. 19% nega-
ries about Republican presidential candidate John
tive and 34% neutral. Coverage of Republican candidates
McCain (73% of its coverage vs. 57% in the press over-
was not quite as rosy but still more stories were positive
all).[75] MSNBC’s on-air slogan during the week of the
(38%) than neutral (33%) or negative (30%)."[63]
2008 presidential election, "The Power of Change", was
In the February 2008 issue of Men’s Journal magazine,
criticized as being overtly similar to Obama’s campaign
a MSNBC interviewee quoted a senior executive who said
slogan of "Change."[76] Following the 2008 presidential
that liberal commentator Keith Olbermann "runs
election, conservative talk-show host, John Ziegler
MSNBC" and that "because of his success, he’s in charge"
worked on a documentary called Media Malpractice.... How
of the channel.[64] The New York Times has called Olber-
Obama Got Elected, which was very critical of the media,
mann MSNBC’s "most recognizable face".[10] In Septem-
especially MSNBC’s role, in the 2008 Presidential Elec-
ber 2008, MSNBC stated that they were removing both
tion. While promoting the documentary, he engaged in
Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as live political
an on-air dispute with MSNBC news anchor Contessa
event anchors, and replacing them with David Gregory,
Brewer, on how the media, especially MSNBC, had por-
due to growing criticism that they were "too opinionated
trayed Sarah Palin.[77]
to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential cam-
After Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann made
paign."[11][12] Olbermann continued to broadcast Count-
controversial on-air comments during the 2008 Repub-
down both before and after the presidential and vice-
lican National Convention, NBC News correspondent
presidential debates, and both Matthews and Olbermann
David Gregory replaced them, but Matthews and Olber-
joined Gregory on the channel’s election night coverage.
mann continued working as analysts.[78] On November
In September 2009, a Pew Research Poll showed that De-
4–5, Matthews teamed with Rachel Maddow, Eugene
mocrats were much more likely than Republicans to rate
Robinson, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann to cover
the channel favorably and Republicans were much more
the presidential election.
likely than Democrats to see MSNBC unfavorably.[65][66]
During MSNBC’s coverage of the Potomac primary,
On November 13, 2009, in the days leading up to the
Matthews had this to say about then presidential candi-
release of 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate
date Barack Obama:
Sarah Palin’s book "Going Rogue", MSNBC’s Dylan Rati-
“ I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting
gan used photoshopped pictures of Palin on the channel’s
this case, this election, the feeling most people get when
Morning Meeting program. Ratigan apologized a few days
they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill go-
later stating, "I want to apologize to Governor Palin and
ing up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.[25] ”
all of our viewers. On Friday, in a very misguided attempt
This led many on the right to assert that both he and
to have some fun in advance of Sarah Palin’s upcoming
MSNBC were biased toward Obama.[79]
book Going Rogue, our staff mistakenly used some clearly
photoshopped images of Ms. Palin without any acknowl-
edgment."[67]
Phil Donahue Iraq War dismissal
In October 2010, MSNBC began using the tagline "lean [Donahue presents a] difficult public face for NBC in a
forward", which was described by some media outlets, in- time of war...He seems to delight in presenting guests
cluding msnbc.com, as the network embracing its politi- who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the admin-
cally progressive identity.[42][68][69][70] istration’s motives.
A poll conducted by Farleigh Dickinson University —NBC internal study[80]
concluded that MSNBC viewers are among the most un- See also: Media coverage of the Iraq War
informed. Dan Cassino, analyst for the PublicMind poll Phil Donahue’s 2002 program Donahue was canceled in
said "People who tune into ideological media are moti- late February 2003 during the buildup to the Iraq War.
vated to hear their side of the debate and so you can Despite earlier claims of cancellation because of low rat-
have someone who watches MSNBC be so used to hearing ings,[81] Donahue was MSNBC’s highest rated show that
about protests coming from the right that they automati- month.[80]
cally believe that Occupy is mostly a Republican protest." A leaked NBC internal study revealed that the studio
[71] was concerned that Donahue would act as "a home for
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the liberal antiwar agenda at the same time that our com- That same day, MSNBC announced that he would be back
petitors are waving the flag at every opportunity." [80] on the air starting Tuesday, November 9.[89]
Two weeks later, Griffin announced the suspension
Michael Savage dismissal of Joe Scarborough for the same offense, as the Morning
During the spring and early summer of 2003, MSNBC fea- Joe host had donated $4,000 to Republican candidates in
tured a weekend talk show hosted by conservative radio Florida. Like Olbermann’s suspension, Scarborough’s sus-
host Michael Savage. In July of that year, Savage respond- pension was brief, and he returned to the airwaves on
ed to a prank caller on his show by calling him a "pig" and November 24.[90]
a "sodomite", and telling him he "should get AIDS and On January 21, 2011 MSNBC announced that Olber-
die." Savage’s show was canceled and Savage was fired mann would host his final show that same night.
from the channel shortly afterward (with some reports
placing the termination immediately after the episode in Tucson shootings
question went off air).[82] During the news cycle following the 2011 Tucson shoot-
ing, conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin threatened
Don Imus controversy to sue Chris Matthews and several other MSNBC com-
In early April 2007, Don Imus, whose radio show Imus in mentators who suggested that he might have influenced
the Morning was simulcast on MSNBC, described members the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner. Levin also defended
of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, as Republican politician Sarah Palin, from MSNBC punditry
"some nappy-headed hoes." The comments sparked out- linking her political rhetoric to the heated political at-
rage, as many considered them to be racist and sexist. mosphere surrounding the killings.[91][92] Paul Bond of
After sponsors began to withdraw advertisements from The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "MSNBC was crucial in
the show, MSNBC canceled the simulcast. Imus, as well as driving the narrative that the killer was egged on by vi-
NBC News, apologized to the Rutgers Basketball team for olent political rhetoric, particularly from Palin". Bond al-
the remarks.[83] Don Imus now has a feature show on the so wrote that "even after it was learned that the shooter
Fox Business Network. was an atheist, flag-burning, Bush-hating, 9/11 Truther
who enjoyed joking about abortion (not exactly the por-
"Rise of the New Right" documentary trait of a Palin supporter), MSNBC still did not let up on
that story line".[93]
In June 2010, a documentary airing on MSNBC and hosted
by Chris Matthews called Rise of the New Right drew sig-
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