Its anchors aweigh at MSNBC. Pleasure Reid and Alex Wagner are dropping their weeknight primetime slots on the cable information channel, based on a number of experiences.
Reid is predicted to host the final episode of The ReidOut someday this week, ending her present’s run of 4 and a half years, Selection experiences. In her stead in that 7/6c slot, The Weekend anchors Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez, and Michael Steele will host a program that may run for 2 hours on Monday and one hour on the opposite weeknights, with Menendez turning into the primary Latina girl to host a primetime MSNBC information program, per Deadline.
Selection additionally experiences Wagner seemingly received’t return to her job internet hosting Alex Wagner Tonight Tuesdays via Fridays at 9/8c. Sources inform the outlet Wagner shall be named a correspondent and that different MSNBC personalties will inherit her former time slot as soon as Rachel Maddow goes again to internet hosting on Monday nights solely. Maddow has been internet hosting her self-named present each weeknight throughout these first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, whereas Wagner has been engaged on a sequence of particular experiences titled Trumpland: The First 100 Days.
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Inside anchor Jen Psaki, pictured at proper above, will take over Wagner’s time slot on not less than one evening, and MSNBC is in conversations with Politico journalist Eugene Daniels and NYU regulation professor Melissa Murray, each of whom are on-air MSNBC analysts, to seem in that slot on different nights, Selection provides.
The shakeup-up comes shortly after Rebecca Kutler changed Rashida Jones as MSNBC president. Kutler was essential to the event of The Weekend and Inside With Jen Psaki, Deadline experiences.
The outlet provides that Kutler has designs of assembling an MSNBC information group as Comcast prepares to spin off a lot of NBCUniversal’s cable channels into a brand new firm, since MSNBC will not have the assist of NBC Information. Kutler plans to create a information bureau in Washington D.C. with a group of home and worldwide correspondents, based on Selection.