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Fox News was the most-watched network on an off-night for cable news. FNC saw its primetime numbers dip below 3 million total viewers and into the low 300,000s in the Adult 25-54 demo. MSNBC finished second in primetime in both total viewers and the demo with 1.53 million viewers and 129,000 viewers, respectively. Meanwhile, CNN fell below 500,000 total viewers and under 100,000 A25-54 viewers during primetime.

NBC News’ Steve Kornacki will not return to MSNBC after 12 years following the network’s spinoff arrangement.

Kornacki, the popular political data sensation, has agreed to remain with NBC News in his renewed contract and expand his appearances across the network’s news and sports divisions, The Los Angeles Times reported. The contract does not include his employment at MSNBC, which has turned into a new corporate entity by its parent company, Comcast.

The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal argued on “Morning Joe” Monday that all U.S. voter registration laws should be eliminated.

Mystal argued that any American should only have to meet eligibility requirements, such as age, in order to cast a ballot during elections, suggesting that voter registration has a racist and anti-immigrant undertone. He stated that voting rights need to be expanded in order to help more Democrats vote.

MSNBC’s shake-up drew sharp criticism from Rachel Maddow, who condemned the network’s decision to cancel the shows of Joy Reid and Alex Wagner. Maddow highlighted concerns over diversity, noting that both non-white prime-time hosts were cut.

Joy Reid reacted emotionally to her show’s cancellation, expressing feelings of disappointment and guilt over her team losing their jobs.

The network overhaul, led by new president Rebecca Kutler, aims to reshape MSNBC’s prime-time lineup amid ratings challenges and the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

MSNBC is dramatically shaking up its lineup — and the shocking changes will result in the end of Joy Reid’s decade-long tenure at the network.

On Sunday, Variety and The New York Times reported that Reid’s 7 p.m. weeknight show, The ReidOut, is being canceled and will air its final episode this week. Mediaite has confirmed, through a source familiar with the changes at MSNBC, that Reid will be leaving the network completely as a result. She has been a host with MSNBC since 2014, and has piloted The ReidOut since 2020.

NBCUniversal’s offloading of ”SpinCo″ has prompted high level questions and speculation about what exactly the plan is for declining linear TV channels. SpinCo has several paths forward, whether as a consolidator of more declining linear TV assets, a risk-taking investor in promising but cash-strapped digital media properties, or as a target for acquisition itself (or a little bit of each).

MSNBC told the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross for a report on Tuesday that the network was “unaware” that Rev. Al Shaprton’s non-profit organization had received $500,000 in donations from Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, during the same time period he interviewed her on the network.

MSNBC admitted it was "unaware" that Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign paid $500,000 to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit ahead of a friendly interview with the Democratic nominee ahead of Election Day. 

Joe Rogan lambasted “delusional” left-wing media Thursday for thrusting its bias forward at the cost of its readers’ trust — which is resulting in a “hemorrhaging” of subscribers.

“I was just reading something about CNN’s ratings and MSNBC’s ratings post-election — they’ve crashed,” the “Joe Rogan Experience” host told guests Jimmy Corsetti and Dan Richards of “Debunking the Past”

“All these left-wing kooks on YouTube are hemorrhaging subscribers. Where people go, ‘You guys are out of touch, you’re not accurate, you’re delusional,'” Rogan continued.

When NBC launched MSNBC in 1996, the network was marketed with the slogan “It’s Time to Get Connected,” a line that acknowledged the emergence of the internet as a game-changing force in the media. Microsoft, then a minority partner in the channel, made web culture part of its programming.