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MSNBC announces sweeping changes to daytime schedule
by Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter
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August 03, 2020 01:18 PM
Updated Aug 03, 2020, 01:48 PM
MSNBC is drastically changing its on-air daytime lineup.
Chuck Todd, the NBC News political director and the moderator on Meet The Press, is included in the lineup reshuffle, which will go into effect on Aug. 17, the Washington Examiner can confirm. Todd, who currently hosts MTP Daily during the 5 p.m. hour, will be moved to the 1 p.m. time slot.
Katy Tur, who hosts MSNBC Live from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., will only keep the first hour of her show, while NBC News foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin will take over the 3 p.m. hour.
As of now, Nicolle Wallace, who worked in the George W. Bush administration, anchors Deadline: White House, which airs from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and leads into MTP Daily. Wallace's show, once the changes go into effect, will take over Todd's vacated time slot, and her show will stretch across two hours.
Todd will no longer anchor the 5 p.m. hour, but he will begin hosting a new hour-long weekly political news program on the network's streaming service.
“Peacock is the new Comcast streaming service, the NBC streaming service," Todd said in June to USA Today’s Talking Tech podcast about the new platform. "And this is something I'm really excited about. Ultimately, I’d do Meet the Press as a channel, someday. In fact, I view it that way now. I know we're not there, and I think that every smart news program that has a legacy will view itself more as a channel than as a show. You know, I can't wait to have a series of documentaries. I can't wait for people to go on the Meet the Press channel on Peacock, and you know in five years, you'll have maybe an hourly update of what's the latest political news, a Sunday archive, longer podcast interviews, documentaries that are as long as two hours or as short as 10 minutes. That's sort of the vision I have in sort of the next iteration of this as we go into the next decade.”
According to Nielsen Media Research, all three cable news networks experienced a bump in viewership in the daytime during the second quarter of 2020 in comparison with the same time period in 2019. MSNBC's daytime ratings average was 1,209,000 total viewers, which was up 34% from the time period a year prior and barely eclipsed CNN.
This announcement comes a couple weeks after the network promoted Joy Reid to host a show in the 7 p.m. weeknight slot.
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