152-572: MSNBC (originally short for Microsoft NBC ) is an American news -based television channel and website headquartered in New York City. It is owned by NBCUniversal — a subsidiary of Comcast — and provides news coverage and political commentary. The network produces live broadcasts for its channel from studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan , New York City, and aggregates its coverage and commentary on its website, msnbc.com. In
304-520: A technical director , floor director audio technician , and a television crew of operators running character graphics (CG), teleprompters , and professional video cameras . Most news shows are broadcast live. Radio news is transmitted through the medium of radio , meaning it is audio-only. It was a dominant form of information dissemination to households from the 1910s–1940s before home televisions became cheap and common. Radio news has persisted, often with short updates at certain intervals on
456-676: A 10-minute newscast at 10:55 pm, following The National , these were expanded to a half-hour and moved to 11:00 p.m. during the fall of 2012). Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6:00 am, and ending at 9:00 am). Unlike in the United States, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot are relatively uncommon (three Global owned-and-operated stations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – CKND-DT , CFSK-DT , and CFRE-DT – and Victoria, British Columbia independent station CHEK-DT are
608-477: A 50–50 joint venture , and it was headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey . Sue Herera and Scott Cohn joined CNBC at its inception. CNBC had considerable difficulty getting cable carriage at first, as many providers were skeptical of placing it alongside the longer-established Financial News Network . By the winter of 1990, CNBC was in only 17 million homes – less than half of FNN's potential reach – despite
760-515: A brand, with a large dose of opinion and personality." In January 2001, Mike Barnicle 's MSNBC show started, but it was canceled in June 2001 because of high production costs. In June, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said that he would not have started MSNBC had he foreseen the difficulty of attracting viewers. After the September 11, 2001 attacks , NBC used MSNBC as an outlet for
912-658: A broadcast on HBO for a few years despite starting as a YouTube channel, for example, eventually transferring the show to their own network called Viceland and later Vice On TV. Outside the realm of traditional news organizations with paid journalists are citizen journalists , independents who report on their own and use sites such as YouTube to display their content. Independents also heavily cover commentary on news: while most independents cannot originally report on anything other than local issues due to budgetary concerns, opinions are cheaper. As such, Internet journalism has many video broadcasts & podcasts of opinion closer to
1064-485: A channel number or call letters , the newscast title is often enough for the appropriate station to receive Nielsen ratings credit. The Big Three broadcast television networks produce morning and evening national newscasts. These newscasts are focused on world news, national news, and sometimes local news items that have some national significance. ( Good Morning America First Look , Good Morning America , and ABC World News are broadcast by ABC , CBS broadcasts
1216-446: A competitor, tended not to use live broadcast as a style, except when streaming existing television programs. Another change in news broadcasts in the 2000s, at least in the United States, was a rediscovered interest in health news and consumer news – areas of special interest to women that had traditionally been written off as too minor for the evening newscasts, but proved to be steady sources of viewer curiosity and ratings. Unlike in
1368-544: A content partnership with AOL . Average daytime viewership (6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) reached a seven-year high of 310,000 viewers in the first quarter of 2008. Ratings plummeted in 2009 as the network aired bad economic news resulting from the Great Recession . In January 2010, the launch of the Korean language channel SBS-CNBC marked the fifteenth CNBC-branded channel worldwide. In July 2010, BT signed
1520-440: A daily flagship evening newscast Noticias Telemundo , along with weekday morning program Hoy Día (which replaced Un Nuevo Día in 2021) and weekday afternoon newsmagazine Al Rojo Vivo ; Estrella TV , which produces the weekday-only flagship news program Noticiero Estrella TV and the primetime newscast Cierre de Edición ; and Azteca América , which produces morning, early and late evening newscasts on weekdays under
1672-498: A day, often filling late afternoon, primetime, and late night hours with news-based talk programs, documentaries, and other specialty programming. More often, AM radio stations will air a 6½-minute newscast at the top of the hour, which can be either a local report, a national report from a radio network such as CBS Radio , CNN Radio , NPR , Fox News Radio , or ABC News Radio , or a mix of both local and national content, including weather and traffic reports. Some stations also air
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#17327730541401824-491: A financial news channel, while Sun News Network briefly operated from 2011 to 2015 as a conservative -leaning competitor to the other national news channels. There are also a handful of regional news channels, such as CP24 (which covers the Greater Toronto Area ), and Global News: BC 1 , which covers Vancouver. CityNews Channel formerly operated as a competitor to CP24, although that channel shut down after
1976-724: A five-year contract with CNBC Europe to distribute content from its London headquarters to sister sites in Europe and the US. In 2011, CNBC won an award at the International Broadcasting Convention for its CNBC 4D: Interactive motion tracking that allows CNBC presenters to interact with 3D graphics, using technology from Unreel, Brainstorm, Motion Analysis. In June 2012, CNBC expanded its partnership with Yahoo! Finance in an effort to reach more online viewers. That month, CNBC.com had 6.5 million unique visitors in
2128-423: A full 16:9 letterbox presentation, in line with CNBC Asia and CNBC Europe . Current notable programming (as of October 2024) CNBC occasionally serves as an outlet for NBC Sports programming, and essentially acts as an overflow feed when USA Network is broadcasting sports events. Mainly, this has occurred on weekends, especially the afternoon, and its coverage is purposefully limited away from any part of
2280-555: A larger network affiliate or whose operations are jointly managed through a shared service or local marketing agreement . In cases where a station with an existing news department enters into a news share agreement, it will result either the two departments merging or the outright conversion of newscast production from in-house to outsourced production. Minor network affiliates involved in news share agreements will often carry far fewer hours of local newscasts than would be conceivable with an in-house news department to avoid competition with
2432-670: A late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of Today , and sister network CNBC 's Mad Money on weeknights). Spanish-language news programs are provided by Univision , which produces early and late evening editions of its flagship evening news program Noticiero Univision seven nights a week (and was the only nightly newscast on the major Spanish networks until Telemundo resumed its weekend newscasts in October 2014), along with weekday afternoon newsmagazine Primer Impacto and weekday morning program Despierta America ; Telemundo , which has
2584-515: A local cable operator and are distributed solely through cable television and IPTV system operators. Some broadcast television stations also operate cable channels (some of which are repeated through digital multicasting ) that air the station's local newscasts in the form of live simulcasts from the television station, with rebroadcasts of the newscasts airing in time periods between the live broadcasts. A term which has entered common parlance to differentiate cable news from traditional news broadcasts
2736-551: A local news operation, such as is the case with Fox News Channel and the Fox network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates (most of which use the Fox (channel #) News brand for their newscasts), due to the network's controversially perceived conservative-leaning political content that differs from the Fox broadcast stations' independent and generally nonpartisan reporting. Most U.S. cable news networks do not air news programming 24 hours
2888-437: A long-term lease of the former MSNBC building to become the home studios of MLB Network , which launched from the facility on January 1, 2009. From mid-2007 to mid-2008, MSNBC enjoyed a large increase in its Nielsen ratings . Primetime viewings increased by 61 percent. In May 2008, NBC News president Steve Capus said, "It used to be people didn't have to worry about MSNBC because it was an also-ran cable channel.... That's not
3040-579: A low-budget mix of old movies and instructional and entertainment programs. The channel later changed its name to Tempo Television. After initially signing a letter of intent to acquire Tempo, NBC opted for a deal to lease the channel's transponder in June 1988. On this platform, and under the guidance of Tom Rogers , the channel was relaunched on April 17, 1989, as the Consumer News and Business Channel with Neil Cavuto anchoring this first broadcast. NBC and Cablevision initially operated CNBC as
3192-568: A major rebranding, updating its logo for the first time since 1996 (adopting the updated NBC peacock and corporate typeface introduced a year prior), and revamping its on-air graphics with a simpler flat design . The two-tiered stock ticker CNBC had historically used was replaced with a single scroll, with major indices now displayed in a strip below the stock ticker. In November 2024, a Brazilian affiliate known as Times Brasil launched as CNBC's first local franchise in South America. It
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#17327730541403344-666: A more fragmented market and government reluctance to interfere as closely. Increased choice in channels led to viewers declining to watch overly serious newscasts; successful network news shows tended to be ones that either focused on entertainment or at least mixed it in, such as morning talk shows or news magazines such as Today and 60 Minutes . Audiences that prefer more serious news have migrated to news-focused stations such as CNN , Fox News , and MSNBC for American examples. These changes have been criticized as having effects on larger society. An example from television in Italy
3496-429: A new multi-platform deal with Jim Cramer ; in addition to his existing television roles, the agreement includes the co-development of live events and digital content through his company Cramer Media (replacing his previous arrangement with TheStreet , which Cramer had co-founded, and sold to The Arena Group in 2019), including a direct-to-consumer subscription service. In January 2022, the subscription service launched as
3648-603: A program in the 6 pm EST hour entitled For the Record with Greta , hosted by former Fox News Channel anchor Greta Van Susteren . The program aired for six months before being cancelled in late June 2017. The network promoted Ari Melber, the network's chief legal correspondent, to host The Beat with Ari Melber at 6pm. In March 2017, MSNBC began to increase its use of the NBC News branding during daytime news programming, as part of an effort to emphasize MSNBC's relationship with
3800-488: A promotional ad campaign with the theme, "in order to know beyond, you have to go beyond." The campaign portrayed MSNBC's reporting and perspectives as "in depth" and an alternative to "talking points" coverage on other cable news outlets. A new tagline "This is who we are" appeared on MSNBC in June 2016. Promotional campaigns including the slogan were aired in March 2017. In July 2016, the network debuted Dateline Extra , which
3952-548: A relevant location and edited in an editing suite in a newsroom or a remote contribution edit suite in a location some distance from the newsroom. They may also be edited in mobile editing vans, or satellite vans or trucks (such as electronic news gathering vehicles), and transmitted back to the newsroom. Live coverage will be broadcast from a relevant location and sent back to the newsroom via fixed cable links, microwave radio, production truck , satellite truck , or via online streaming. Roles associated with television news include
4104-422: A result of a local press pool arrangement. Many local and national news organizations such as Dallas station WFAA-TV and CBS News provided continuous coverage of the events and aftermath for five days. The November 24, 1963, assassination of Kennedy's accused killer Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was fed to NBC by a remote unit on loan to its Dallas affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV ) from competitor KTVT , and
4256-501: A revamp of its weekend programming, ending Mehdi Hasan ’s 9 p.m. ET show on Sundays and introducing an ensemble show, The Weekend , hosted by Alicia Menendez , Symone Sanders-Townsend , and Michael Steele from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The revamp would also end Yasmin Vossoughian Reports , Symone , and American Voices and move The Sunday/Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart into
4408-518: A sale would incur taxes (the spin-off is being structured to be tax-free), and that divesting the channel might not be seen as being in the best interest of shareholders. In September 2018, approximately 87 million households in the United States were receiving MSNBC, amounting to 90.7 percent of pay television subscribers. Nielsen ratings showed that MSNBC ranked second among basic cable networks, averaging 1.8 million viewers in 2019, behind rival Fox News . In 2022, average weekday primetime viewership
4560-475: A separate joint venture between Microsoft and NBC for another seven years.) NBC later exercised its option to purchase Microsoft's remaining 18 percent interest in MSNBC. In late 2005, MSNBC began attracting liberal and progressive viewers as Keith Olbermann began critiquing and satirizing conservative media commentators during his Countdown With Keith Olbermann program. He especially focused his attention on
4712-671: A studio at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square , New York City. CNBC was originally founded in April 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel , a joint venture between NBC and Cablevision . Following its 1991 bankruptcy, NBC acquired the competing Financial News Network (FNN) and merged it into CNBC, and acquired Cablevision's stake in CNBC to give it full ownership. In addition to its U.S. operations, CNBC operates
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4864-430: A substantially lower weekly newscast output compared to its English-language counterparts (usually limited to half-hour broadcasts in the evening, and often airing only on weeknights). Unlike international broadcast stations which tend to brand under uniform newscast titles based solely on network affiliation, U.S. television stations tend to use varying umbrella titles for their newscasts; some title their newscasts using
5016-411: A two-minute report at the bottom of the hour. FM stations, unless they feature a talk radio format, usually only air an abbreviated weather forecast. Some also air minute-long news capsules featuring a quick review of events, and usually only in drive time periods or in critical emergencies, since FM stations usually focus more on playing music. Traffic reports also air on FM stations, depending on
5168-588: A year and a half of operation in May 2013 The U.S. CNN, Fox News, HLN, and MSNBC, as well as a number of other international news channels (such as, most commonly, Al Jazeera English and BBC World News ) are authorized for distribution by Canadian television providers by the CRTC . Local TV stations in the United States normally broadcast local news three to four times a day on average: commonly airing at 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, or 6:00 a.m.; noon; 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. in
5320-414: Is network news , in reference to the traditional television networks on which such broadcasts air. A classic example is the cable news channel MSNBC, which overlaps with (and, in the case of very significant breaking news events, pre-empts) its network counterpart NBC News ; in some cases, viewers may have trouble differentiating between the cable channel and either a counterpart network news organization or
5472-401: Is a study of Mediaset 's rollout in Italy in the 1980s found that Mediaset's programming was slanted against news and educational content than its competitor RAI ( Radiotelevisione italiana ). A study in 2019 found that individuals in regions with an earlier rollout of Mediaset were more susceptible to populist appeals and less interested in "sophisticated" political arguments. The study said
5624-400: Is active, it is positive, it is about making tomorrow better than today, a discussion about politics and the actions and passions of our time." The new campaign embraces the network's politically progressive identity. The two-year advertising campaign would cost $ 2 million and consist of internet, television, and print advertising. The new positioning has created brand image issues for msnbc.com,
5776-784: Is composed of the NBC News , CNBC and MSNBC units. During 2014, MSNBC's total ratings in the 25–54 demographic declined 20 percent, falling to third place behind CNN. Nevertheless, MSNBC retained its lead among the Hispanic and African-American demographics. In 2015, to help revive the struggling network, Griffin announced he was transitioning MSNBC from left-leaning, opinionated programming to hard news programming. Nearly all daytime opinionated news programs were replaced with more generic news programs. Ronan Farrow , Joy Reid , Krystal Ball , Touré , Abby Huntsman , Alex Wagner , and Ed Schultz lost their shows. Al Sharpton 's PoliticsNation
5928-541: Is hosted by the former White House press secretary. Between February and September of 2023, the Monday edition of All In with Chris Hayes also featured rotating guest hosts, with Chris Hayes only hosting from Tuesdays to Fridays in order to accommodate Hayes' other projects. On September 7, 2023, it was announced that the program would be replaced by a new, second Monday-night edition of Inside with Jen Psaki beginning September 25. On January 13, 2024, MSNBC implemented
6080-637: Is one famous example, although similar styles took place on the BBC in the United Kingdom, on shows in the Eastern Bloc, and so on, with high viewership concentrated in just a few prestige newscasts. This was something of an artifact of both technology and media culture: few channels were available, and those that did tended to take news casting seriously, even if lighter news could potentially have gotten more viewers. Government regulation also affected
6232-654: Is relatively uncommon on Canadian television; for many years, the closest program having similarities to the format was CTV's news and interview series Question Period ; Global would eventually debut the political affairs show The West Block in November 2011. Canada is host to several 24-hour news channels on specialty television, including CBC News Network and CTV News Channel in English, and Ici RDI and Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) in French. BNN Bloomberg operates as
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6384-399: Is still used to track the viewership of its entertainment programming. In October 2015, a Republican Party candidates debate hosted by CNBC was seen by 14 million viewers—the highest viewership of a CNBC program to-date. On January 10, 2016, CNBC announced a new partnership with Indonesian broadcaster Trans Media to form CNBC Indonesia . By 2017, Fox Business had overtaken CNBC as
6536-608: Is still with the channel, joined CNBC at that time. Other former FNN's workforce were hired by Bloomberg Television . The deal increased the distribution of the network to over 40 million homes. Cablevision sold its 49.5% stake in CNBC to NBC upon completion of the deal. Roger Ailes was hired as the president of CNBC in August 1993, tasked by NBC CEO Bob Wright with turning around the struggling network. Ailes resigned in January 1996 due to disagreements with management including
6688-559: The CBS News Mornings , CBS Mornings , and the CBS Evening News , and NBC produces Early Today , Today , and NBC Nightly News ) as well as weekly newsmagazine series (NBC's Dateline ; ABC's 20/20 and Nightline ; and CBS's CBS News Sunday Morning , 48 Hours , and 60 Minutes ). Network morning newscasts usually air at 7:00 a.m. (English-language network morning shows air live in
6840-615: The Big Three ; CNN, Fox News , and MSNBC . Conversely, several cable news channels exist that carry news reports specifically geared toward a particular metropolitan area, region, or state such as New York City's NY1 (which focuses on the entire New York metropolitan area ) and News 12 Networks (which serves portions of the area outside Manhattan ), Orlando 's News 13 (which is also carried in areas surrounding Greater Orlando ), Tampa, Florida 's Bay News 9 , and Washington, D.C.'s NewsChannel 8 . These channels are usually owned by
6992-779: The Eastern Time Zone and tape delayed for the remaining time zones, while the Spanish-language morning shows air live in the Eastern, Central, and Mountain time zones and are tape delayed in the Pacific Time Zone); network evening newscasts usually are broadcast live twice, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time /5:30 p.m. Central time for the East Coast before another "Western Edition" live broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific time /7:30 p.m. Mountain time . Today
7144-572: The Fox News Channel and Bill O'Reilly , its principal primetime commentator. On June 7, 2006, Rick Kaplan resigned as president of MSNBC after holding the post for two years. Five days later, Dan Abrams , a nine-year veteran of MSNBC and NBC News, was named general manager of MSNBC with immediate effect. NBC News senior vice president Phil Griffin would oversee MSNBC while continuing to oversee NBC News' Today program, with Abrams reporting to Griffin. On June 29, 2006, Abrams announced
7296-603: The NBCUniversal News Group in 2020, after which the network began to engage in some resource sharing with the division. CNBC has a licensing partnership with Paradies Lagardère to operate retail locations in United States airports branded as CNBC News, CNBC Express, and CNBC SmartShop. The stores sell CNBC-branded merchandise as well as snacks and drinks. CNBC has been criticized for allegedly amplifying bull and bear markets, particularly in
7448-561: The Omni Television station group). Canadian television stations normally broadcast newscasts between two and four times a day: usually at noon, 5:00, 5:30, and 6:00, and 11:00 p.m. (there are some variations to this: stations affiliated with CTV usually air their late evening newscasts at 11:30 pm, due to the scheduling of the network's national evening news program CTV National News at 11:00 p.m. in all time zones; most CBC Television -owned stations formerly carried
7600-588: The " Telecopter ", a helicopter equipped for newsgathering use that was the most advanced airborne television broadcast device of its time. The modern-day coverage of major breaking news events came to fruition following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963; the news of Kennedy's death was first announced by Eddie Barker , the news director at KRLD-TV (now KDFW ) in Dallas , who passed along word from an official at Parkland Hospital ; Barker's scoop appeared live simultaneously on CBS and ABC as
7752-491: The "CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer", which includes commentaries, stock picks, and monthly online meetings. The service operates alongside another CNBC subscription service, "CNBC Pro", which similarly provides exclusive content and over-the-top streaming of CNBC's networks. In August 2022, Mark Hoffman stepped down as president of CNBC after 17 years at the network, being succeeded by NBCUniversal president of global advertising and partnerships KC Sullivan. Under Sullivan,
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#17327730541407904-620: The 20 largest U.S. media markets). Duopolies and outsourcing agreements have also affected Fox stations in a similar manner; although Fox is considered to be a major network on the same level as NBC, ABC, and CBS and has urged its affiliates since the early 1990s to broadcast local news, about half of its stations broadcast local news programming through news share agreements with many of the remainder operating their own news departments. Several stations affiliated with Spanish-language networks (such as Univision , Telemundo , and UniMás ) or also broadcast their own newscasts, these stations often produce
8056-475: The 6 p.m. ET slot and The Katie Phang Show to 12 p.m. ET on Saturdays. Ayman would also expand to two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays, and Alex Witt Reports would take over Yasmin Vossoughian’s vacated two hours, now airing from 1 p.m. ET to 4 p.m. ET on Saturdays and Sundays. Alex Witt Reports would then be followed at 4 p.m. ET by The Beat Weekend on Saturdays and MSNBC Prime Weekend on Sundays;
8208-717: The American trading day on weekdays. Consistent programming includes the Premier League and the Olympics . Generally, during weekdays CNBC airs coverage from 5-8PM ET, following business coverage. During weekends, CNBC carries much more extensive sports coverage. In 2022, ten AMA Supercross Championship races aired on CNBC. In 2016 and 2017, CNBC aired The Game , the annual college football game between Harvard University and Yale University as part of NBC Sports' Ivy League television contract. In 2022, CNBC
8360-519: The CNBC Disruptor 50 since 2013 and the CNBC25 since 2014. On January 6, 2015, CNBC changed the way it calculates ratings, switching from Nielsen ratings to a system by Cogent Research to calculate the viewership of its business day programming by surveying financial advisers and investors, with the goal of providing a more accurate measurement of the network's out-of-home viewership; Nielsen
8512-477: The Internet tends to be a la carte, however – rather than a recap show of the issues of the day like a TV or radio show, Internet news sites will usually allow the browser to find the one story they are interested in and watch a video strictly on that, even if said video might have been a segment of a larger show. Internet native news shows do exist such as Vice News , but they tend to seep elsewhere: Vice News ran
8664-429: The MSNBC hub on the service, along with documentaries from MSNBC Films . During the months of October and November and with the 2022 United States elections , Steve Kornacki started hosting The Kornacki Countdown every Friday, temporarily replacing The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell from October 14 to November 8. On March 19, 2023, MSNBC premiered the new Sunday-morning program Inside with Jen Psaki , which
8816-836: The NBC News family originate from the New York studios daily. MSNBC also announced new studios near the Universal Studios lot. MSNBC's master control did not make the move to 30 Rock. It remained in the old Secaucus headquarters until it completed its move to the NBC Universal Network Origination Center located inside the CNBC Global Headquarters building in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , on December 21, 2007. Shortly thereafter, Major League Baseball firmed up
8968-513: The NBC brand. Following the announcement, reports emerged of unsolicited offers to buy the network from several parties (as well as X owner Elon Musk having joked about doing so). CNN media analyst Brian Stelter believed it was unlikely MSNBC would be sold, as NBCUniversal never declared any intent to divest properties when announcing the spin-off (and, on the contrary, suggested that the spin-off planned to target further investments and acquisitions),
9120-575: The Press , ABC's This Week , CBS' Face the Nation , Fox's sole news program Fox News Sunday , Univision's Al Punto , and Telemundo's Enfoque ); of these programs, Meet the Press holds the distinction of being the longest-running American television program as it has aired since November 6, 1947. The U.S. is one of the few countries in which broadcast networks provide overnight or early morning national news programs, in addition to those airing in
9272-613: The United States (90.7 percent of pay television subscribers) were receiving MSNBC. On March 2, 2020, Chris Matthews abruptly announced his resignation from Hardball effective immediately, after comparing the rise of Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential campaign to the German invasion of France. The 7 p.m. hour was hosted by rotating anchors until July 20, when it was replaced by The ReidOut with Joy Reid. On December 7, 2020, MSNBC announced that Rashida Jones would succeed Griffin as president in 2021. Jones stated goals to increase
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#17327730541409424-460: The United States while Yahoo! Finance had 37.5 million. In 2013, host Maria Bartiromo left CNBC for Fox Business in part because Fox offered her $ 5–6 million per year compared to the $ 4 million per year that she made at CNBC. Also that year, CNBC took over production of the popular public television program Nightly Business Report from NBR Worldwide, a subsidiary of Atalaya Global Management. The company publishes annual lists, including
9576-553: The United States, most Canadian television stations have license requirements (enforced by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ) to offer locally produced newscasts (or any local programming, for that matter) in some form. Educational television stations are exempt from these requirements as are multicultural television stations, however some stations licensed as multicultural outlets do produce local newscasts in varied languages (such as
9728-578: The aftermath of September 11, MSNBC began calling itself "America's NewsChannel" and hired opinionated hosts like Alan Keyes , Phil Donahue , Pat Buchanan , and Tucker Carlson . This branding makeover, however, was followed by declining ratings. On December 23, 2005, NBCUniversal announced its acquisition of an additional 32 percent share of MSNBC from Microsoft, which solidified its control over television operations and allowed NBC to further consolidate MSNBC's backroom operations with NBC News and its other cable properties. (The news website msnbc.com remained
9880-403: The arrangement could be illegal. After entering into a new contract, FiOS added the channel in New York City and New Jersey on February 2, 2010. In southern Africa, MSNBC is distributed free-to-air on satellite on Free2View TV as MSNBC Africa, a joint venture between Great Media Limited and MSNBC. Free2View airs MSNBC's programming from 4 p.m. to midnight ET in a block that repeats twice (live for
10032-1102: The broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. An individual news program is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors . A frequent inclusion is live or recorded interviews by field reporters . Television news programs inform and discuss current events via the medium of television. A "news bulletin" or a " newscast " are television programs lasting from seconds to hours that provide updates on events. Programs can vary their focus; some newscasts discuss largely international or national matters, while others will focus on regional and local news events. Example providers of generalist broadcast news shows focusing on national and international matters include BBC News , NBC News , CNN , Fox News Channel , CNA , and Al Jazeera . In addition to general news outlets, there are many specialized news outlets. ESPNews , Fox Sports , and Eurosport News cover sports journalism topics; CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business Network are examples that cover business news . Local programming covers
10184-466: The campaign in the key 25–54 age demographic. In September 2008, the channel hired political analyst and Air America Radio personality Rachel Maddow to host a new political opinion program called The Rachel Maddow Show . The move to create a new program for the channel was widely seen as a well-calculated ratings move, where beforehand, MSNBC lagged behind in coveted primetime ratings. The show regularly outperformed CNN's Larry King Live , and made
10336-417: The case anymore." Tim Russert 's sudden death in June 2008 removed the person whom The Wall Street Journal called the " rudder for the network" and led to a period of transition. During the 2008 presidential election , MSNBC's coverage was anchored by Olbermann, Chris Matthews , and David Gregory . They were widely viewed as the face of the channel's political coverage. During the first three months of
10488-571: The channel competitive in the program's time slot for the first time in over a decade. In the first quarter of 2010, MSNBC beat CNN in primetime and overall ratings, marking the first time doing so since 2001. The channel also beat CNN in total adult viewers in March, marking the seventh out of the past eight months that MSNBC achieved that result. In addition, the programs Morning Joe , The Ed Show , Hardball with Chris Matthews , Countdown with Keith Olbermann , and The Rachel Maddow Show finished ahead of their time slot competitors at CNN. In
10640-602: The commentary-focused The O'Reilly Factor ). However, their gains did not offset the continuing steep decline in viewership of mainline network news. This era saw diversification and fragmentation proceed even further as new niche networks gained prominence such as the business-focused CNBC , Bloomberg Television , and Fox Business . Instead, people used the Internet for news rather than television broadcasts, both in mainline sites such as ones runs by newspapers as well as independent blogs and message boards with other Internet-users sharing opinions and news Internet news, while
10792-475: The cost of starting a news department from scratch or because of a lack of studio space. These commonly involve Fox, CW, and MyNetworkTV affiliates (and previously affiliate stations of the now-defunct predecessors of the latter two networks, The WB and UPN ) and in some cases, independent stations; however such agreements exist in certain markets between two co-owned/co-managed Big Three affiliates. News share agreements are most common with stations co-owned with
10944-474: The day. From 2001 to 2006, the CNBC website was operated by MSN . In August 2003, CNBC signed a deal to provide weather content from AccuWeather . In October 2003, CNBC moved its world headquarters from Fort Lee (which became the new home of Telemundo flagship station WNJU ) to a new digital video production studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey . NBC Universal reacquired full control of loss-making CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia from Dow Jones at
11096-654: The decision by NBC management to form a joint venture with Microsoft that included the rebrand of " America's Talking " as MSNBC . Under the leadership of Ailes, annual revenue at CNBC rose from $ 43 million to $ 110 million. In June 1995, CNBC launched the Hong Kong -based CNBC Asia , and CNBC Europe , headquartered in London , in March 1996. In December 1997, CNBC formed a strategic alliance with Dow Jones, including content sharing with Dow Jones Newswires , The Wall Street Journal , MarketWatch , and Barron's and
11248-430: The division. On May 8, 2017, MSNBC introduced a new late-afternoon program, Deadline: White House , hosted by NBC political analyst and former White House communications director Nicolle Wallace . That month, MSNBC became the highest rated American cable news network in primetime for the first time. MSNBC's increasing viewership was accompanied by declining numbers at Fox News Channel. MSNBC's May 15–19 programming topped
11400-490: The early 2000s). CBC Television, Global, and CTV each produce national evening newscasts ( The National , Global National and CTV National News , respectively), which unlike the American network newscasts do not compete with one another in a common timeslot; while Global National airs at the same early evening time slot as the American evening network newscasts, The National ' s 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot competes against primetime entertainment programming on
11552-408: The early evening; and 10:00 or 11:00 p.m. Some stations carry morning newscasts at 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, or 9:00 a.m., midday newscasts at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m., late afternoon newscasts at 4:00 or 4:30 p.m., or early evening newscasts at 5:00 or 6:00 p.m. Many Fox affiliates, affiliates of minor networks (such as The CW and MyNetworkTV ), and independent stations air newscasts in
11704-470: The effect included populist parties in general that offered simple slogans and easy cure-alls, including non-Berlusconi populist parties such as the Five Star Movement . From 2000 to 2010, overall viewership of television broadcast news continued to decline. Some news-adjacent cable programs gained fame and success in this era (such as the comedy-focused The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and
11856-400: The eight most commonly named main sources for political and election news by US adults, MSNBC and Fox News have the most partisan audiences. Before 2010, MSNBC was not available to Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse television subscribers in the portions of New York State , northern New Jersey , and Connecticut that overlapped Cablevision 's service area. One of several reasons for this
12008-564: The end of 2005. The licensing agreement between Dow and CNBC U.S. remained intact, until it expired in 2012. CNBC reported annual revenues of $ 510 million in 2006. In September 2006, CNBC launched the FTSE CNBC Global 300 stock market index in conjunction with FTSE Group . The index includes the fifteen largest companies from each of the sectors of the Industry Classification Benchmark as well as
12160-410: The episode would be the final episode of Countdown . His departure received much media attention. MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with Olbermann, with no further explanation. Olbermann later revealed that he had taken his show to Current TV . NBCUniversal News Group was created on July 19, 2012, under chairwoman Pat Fili-Krushel. It has been the news division of NBCUniversal. It
12312-1169: The evening during "prime time", but there are also morning newscasts of two to three hours in length. Rolling news channels broadcast news content 24 hours a day. The advent of the internet has allowed the regular 24-hour-a-day presentation of many video and audio news reports, which are updated when additional information becomes available; many television broadcasters provide content originally provided on-air as well as exclusive or supplementary news content on their websites. Local news may be presented by standalone local television stations, stations affiliated with national networks or by local studios which "opt-out" of national network programming at specified points. Different news programming may be aimed at different audiences, depending on age, socio-economic group, or those from particular sections of society. "Magazine-style" television shows (or newsmagazines ) may mix news coverage with topical lifestyle issues, debates, or entertainment content. Public affairs programs provide analysis of and interviews about political, social, and economic issues. News programs feature one or two (sometimes, three) anchors (or presenters,
12464-404: The few remaining users of the concept), most of which eventually disposed of the hourly update format by the early 2000s. Since the early 1990s, independent stations and stations affiliated with a non- Big Three network have entered into "news share agreements", in which news production is outsourced to a major network station (usually an affiliate of ABC, NBC, or CBS), often to avoid shouldering
12616-558: The final hour of primetime (i.e., 10:00 p.m. in the Eastern and Pacific time zones or 9:00 p.m. in the Mountain and Central time zones in the U.S.). Stations that produce local newscasts typically broadcast as little as one to as much over twelve hours of local news on weekdays and as little as one hour to as much as seven hours on weekends; news programming on weekends are typically limited to morning and evening newscasts as
12768-579: The first airing), with local Weather Channel forecasts. News broadcasting News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism . The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom , or by a broadcast network . A news broadcast may include material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts , traffic reports , political commentary , expert opinions, editorial content, and other material that
12920-683: The fourth quarter of 2023, MSNBC was the second most-watched cable news network in the U.S., averaging 792,000 total day viewers, behind rival Fox News , which averaged 1.212 million viewers, and ahead of CNN , which averaged 502,000 viewers. In 2023, one of MSNBC's most watched shows, The Beat with Ari Melber , averaged 1.8 million viewers. In 2023, MSNBC's top five highest-rated shows were The Rachel Maddow Show , The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell , Deadline: White House , The Beat with Ari Melber , and All In with Chris Hayes . In November 2023, MSNBC's most watched nightly shows were The Beat with Ari Melber and Deadline: White House ; The Beat
13072-564: The highest among three major cable news networks and ahead of CNN . A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that MSNBC's audience was more moderate than that of BuzzFeed , Politico , The Washington Post , and The New York Times , but slightly more liberal than CNN 's audience. A 2019 Pew Research Center survey showed that among Americans who named MSNBC as their main source for political news, 74% are ages 50 or older, with 44% ages 65 or older. 95% of those who named MSNBC as their main political news source identify as Democrats ; among
13224-442: The hour, although the medium of radio has generally shifted toward people doing something else such as driving, working or waking up, compared to television. Radio news broadcasts can range from as little as one minute to as much as the station's entire schedule, such as the case of all-news radio , or talk radio . Stations that use a "wheel" format tend to keep to a set schedule of certain programming at certain specific minutes on
13376-728: The hour, and one of these segments is frequently a news bulletin. These short bulletins will provide overviews of any breaking news of interest, and may include local concerns such as weather forecasts or traffic reports. The vast majority of professionally produced video or audio news on the Internet tends to be attached to existing news organizations. Radio stations will upload their news reports as streamable podcasts and television networks will sometimes make their broadcasts available over Internet video. Print newspapers will sometimes feature video on their websites for breaking news events and for long-form video journalism. The usual focus on
13528-454: The increased presence of duopolies and outsourcing agreements since the early 2000s, the number of minor network affiliates and independent stations that produce their own newscasts has markedly decreased compared to when duopolies were barred under Federal Communications Commission rules prior to 2000 (as of 2013, there are at least 15 minor network affiliates or independent stations that produce their own local newscasts, most are located within
13680-486: The international branches CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia , and is involved in other international affiliates via joint ventures and franchise arrangements. In 2023, CNBC had higher total day and primetime viewership than its rival, Fox Business , but finished behind Fox in trading day viewership. CNBC's roots date back to the founding in 1979 of the Satellite Program Network (SPN), which showed
13832-459: The joint venture. Microsoft invested $ 221 million for a 50 percent share of the cable channel. MSNBC and Microsoft shared the cost of a $ 200 million newsroom in Secaucus, New Jersey , for msnbc.com . The network took over the channel space of NBC's 2-year-old America's Talking (AT) network, although in most cases cable carriage had to be negotiated with providers who had never carried AT. MSNBC
13984-505: The lack of direct comments by the network, several personalities have defended their predictions and comments. CNBC was accused by the Obama administration of "cable chatter"—the excessive and sometimes brutal discussion on a particular topic, often one-sided. Regarding CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer , an August 20, 2007, article in Barron's stated that "his picks haven't beaten
14136-725: The larger amount of network programming that those networks carry). In 1990, WEWS-TV in Cleveland conceived a concept known as the "24-Hour News Source" (which has its origins in a news format used by short-lived Boston independent station WXPO-TV when it signed on in 1969), in which supplementary 30-second long news updates were produced at or near the top of each hour outside regular long-form newscasts during local commercial break inserts shown within network and syndicated programming. The format spread to other U.S. television stations (most notably, WISH-TV in Indianapolis , one of
14288-495: The late 1970s, the first local morning news programs debuted. Additional changes in local news content came during the 1980s and 1990s; in January 1989, WSVN in Miami became the first to adopt a news-intensive programming format; rather than fill its schedule with syndicated content as other Fox stations did at the time it joined that network, Ed Ansin (owner of WSVN parent Sunbeam Television ) chose instead to heavily invest in
14440-588: The longest-running network newsmagazine in Canada). CTV's Your Morning is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in Canada, and replaced Canada AM , which aired since 1975. Most CTV owned-and-operated stations west of the Ontario-Manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally produced morning newscasts. The Sunday morning talk show
14592-415: The many examples of smaller stations with a regional focus. Newscasts, also known as bulletins or news program(me)s, differ in content, tone, and presentation style depending on the format of the channel/station on which they appear, and their timeslot. In most parts of the world, national television networks will have bulletins featuring national and international news. The top-rated shows will often air in
14744-418: The market. In some countries, radio news content may be syndicated by a website or company to many stations in a particular region or even the entire country. A notable example is Israel, where there are groups of radio stations that broadcast the same hourly news capsule by an Israeli news website and television station. There are currently two groups of local Israeli stations: one broadcasts news from YNET ,
14896-577: The market. Over the past two years, viewers holding Cramer's stocks would be up 12% while the Dow rose 22% and the S&;P 500 16%." On October 10, 2007, CNBC HD, a 1080i high-definition television simulcast of CNBC, was launched, first on DirecTV . On October 13, 2014, coincidentally the 11th anniversary of CNBC's relocation to its current facilities in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, CNBC switched to
15048-469: The morning and early evening. CBS and ABC are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of Up to the Minute and World News Now , respectively; NBC previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: NBC News Overnight from 1982 to 1983, and NBC Nightside from 1991 to 1998 (NBC currently does not offer
15200-466: The most watched daytime business news network. CNBC's online video operations generated an all-time high of 1.92 billion total digital video starts across platforms in 2020. In 2020, CNBC hired former Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith to host a new evening newscast on the channel, The News with Shepard Smith , which premiered that September. It was positioned as an objective , "fact-based" national newscast. In September 2021, CNBC signed
15352-429: The network began to refocus its programming to broaden appeal to its core business audience, including a promise of more business-related documentaries in primetime, and cancelling the low-rated The News with Shepard Smith in November 2022 in favor of the new financial news program Last Call with Brian Sullivan , which premiered in January 2023, and ran until July 18, 2024. On December 11, 2023, CNBC underwent
15504-453: The network in late 2021 and was succeeded on The 11th Hour by Stephanie Ruhle. Meanwhile, as part of her new contract with NBCUniversal, Rachel Maddow took an extended hiatus from her program in order to focus on other film and podcast projects, with rotating guest hosts filling in for her. Upon Maddow's return, she announced that she would only host the show on Monday nights beginning in May 2022, and continue to feature guest hosts throughout
15656-515: The network's investment into documentary-style programs, and to have viewers "clearly understand" the differences and value of its news-based and analysis-driven programming, as both were "critical to our future success", and "need to exist in a clear and compelling form on every single platform where news consumers go." As part of this remit, Jones named separate senior vice presidents for news programming and "perspective and analysis" programming. In January 2021, MSNBC had its highest-rated week ever in
15808-460: The newly independent unit was renamed ABC (American Broadcasting Company). A general shift over time happened in the style of the evening newscasts in most countries. In the 1950s, television was novel enough that it was considered entertainment. In the 1960s and 70s, television newscasts tended to be unusually "serious" by later standards, featuring more "hard news" and less light entertainment mixed in. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
15960-563: The news landscape: in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission forced networks to abide by strict public-interest requirements that required broadcasting news, while television in the Soviet Union was strictly regulated by the government which looked on frivolous topics with disfavor. In the 1980s and 90s, this tended to fall away as a consequence of cable and satellite technology allowing
16112-482: The newspapers. The outbreak of World War II led to a great increase in the quantity of news programming, consuming as much as 20% of the schedules of the major networks. Chief among these reporters was Edward Roscoe Murrow , whose reports from London kept the American public focused on a war far from home. Also, the eventual "big three" were complete in 1945; the FCC forced a sale of NBC Blue due to anti-trust concerns, and
16264-412: The number-one cable news network in primetime among both African American and Hispanic viewers. On October 11, 2010, MSNBC unveiled a new televised advertising campaign and slogan called "Lean Forward". "We've taken on CNN and we beat them," MSNBC president Phil Griffin told employees at a series of celebratory "town hall" meetings. "Now it's time to take on Fox." Concerning the campaign, Griffin said, "It
16416-415: The object of various criticisms , most centering around accusations of a liberal bias and of other biases. MSNBC was established in 1996 under a strategic partnership between NBC and Microsoft . NBC executive Tom Rogers was instrumental in developing the partnership. James Kinsella , a Microsoft executive, served as president of the online component, MSNBC.com, and represented the technology company in
16568-550: The only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5:00 a.m. local newscasts do not exist in Canada. Like with U.S. television, many stations use varied titles for their newscasts; this is particularly true with owned-and-operated stations of Global and City (Global's stations use titles based on daypart such as News Hour for the noon and early evening newscasts and News Final for 11:00 p.m. newscasts, while all six City-owned broadcast stations produce morning news/talk programs under
16720-452: The operating departments of various independent financial institutions across the United States, allowing traders to be interviewed instantaneously as news breaks. In December 2007, CNBC formed a content partnership with Yahoo! Finance . In January 2008, CNBC formed a content partnership with The New York Times , which was seen as an attempt by both parties to take on increased competition from News Corporation. In May 2008, CNBC formed
16872-923: The other broadcasts them from Channel 10 . Israeli Army Radio general public stations broadcast the same news capsule every hour, and IBA 's Kol Israel stations broadcast theirs. CNBC CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group , a unit of Comcast 's NBCUniversal . The network broadcasts business news and analysis programming during the morning, daytime trading day , and early-evening hours, while off-peak hours (such as weekday prime time and weekends) are filled by business-related documentaries and reality television programming, as well as occasional NBC Sports presentations. CNBC operates an accompanying financial news website, CNBC.com, which includes news articles, video and podcast content, as well as subscription-based services. CNBC's headquarters and main studios are located in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , while it also maintains
17024-627: The outsourcing partner's own newscasts, as a result, minor network affiliates involved in these NSAs often will carry a morning newscast from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (in competition with the national network newscasts instead of airing competing with the Big Three affiliates' newscasts) or a primetime newscast at 10:00 pm. Eastern and Pacific or 9:00 pm. Central and Mountain Time, with limited to no newscasts in other traditional news time periods (midday, late afternoon, or early evening). Because of
17176-422: The presidential campaign, MSNBC's ratings grew by 158 percent. Olbermann and Matthews, however, were criticized for expressing left-leaning opinions on the channel. Both were later removed from their anchor positions. Audience viewership during the 2008 presidential campaign 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
17328-526: The press release, MSNBC Investigates promised to "complement MSNBC's existing programming by building on [the channel's] library of award-winning documentaries." The move to taped programming during 10 and 11 p.m. probably resulted from MSNBC's successful Friday "experiment" of replacing all primetime programming with taped specials. On September 24, 2007, Abrams announced that he was leaving his general manager position so he could focus on his 9:00 p.m. ET talk show, Live With Dan Abrams . Oversight of MSNBC
17480-444: The private broadcast networks, while CTV National News airs against locally produced 11:00 p.m. newscasts on other stations. The National , which has aired on CBC Television since 1954, is the longest-running national network newscast in Canada. All three networks also produce weekly newsmagazines : CBC's The Fifth Estate (aired since 1975), Global's 16x9 (aired since 2008), and CTV's W5 (aired since 1966 and currently
17632-409: The programming of both CNN and Fox News in total viewers and viewers 18–49. On April 16, 2018, MSNBC premiered a new early morning program, Morning Joe First Look , to replace Way Too Early . The same day, MSNBC also retired its on-air news ticker , citing a desire to reduce distractions and "[put] our reporting more front and center".. As of September 2018, approximately 87 million households in
17784-566: The radio. NBC began broadcasts in November 1926, with CBS entering production on September 25, 1927. Both initially discussed similar topics, such as election results, presidential inaugurations, and other matters of concern to the general public. However, NBC soon emerged as the dominant force for entertainment talent. In response, CBS President William S Paley focused on giving CBS Radio an upscale reputation with better news as well as commentary programs with well-regarded hosts such as Lowell Thomas . Both broadcasters faced stiff competition from
17936-473: The rebranding of the channel as "a service of NBC and Dow Jones". As part of the agreement, Dow Jones merged their competing business news channels—London-based European Business News and Singapore-based Asia Business News —into CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia respectively, with CNBC shutting down its Hong Kong–based operation and relocating the new CNBC Asia to ABN's Singapore studios. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, CNBC's ratings increased sharply along with
18088-1106: The reporter provides additional information. Often in situations necessitating long-form reporting on a story (usually during breaking news situations), the reporter is interviewed by the anchor, known as a 'two-way', or a guest involved in or offering analysis on the story is interviewed by a reporter or anchor. There may also be breaking news stories which will present live rolling coverage. Television news organizations employ several anchors and reporters to provide reports (as many as ten anchors, and up to 20 reporters for local news operations or up to 30 for national news organizations). They may also employ specialty reporters that focus on reporting certain types of news content (such as traffic or entertainment ), meteorologists or weather anchors (the latter term often refers to weather presenters that do not have degrees in meteorology earned at an educational institution ) who provide weather forecasts – more common in local news and on network morning programs – and sports presenters that report on ongoing, concluded, or upcoming Packages will usually be filmed at
18240-496: The rest of the week. The guest hosts appeared under the MSNBC Prime banner until August 16, 2022, when Alex Wagner began to host the permanent program Alex Wagner Tonight in that timeslot. On March 10, 2022, MSNBC announced it would offer on-demand episodes of all of its news programming, excluding MSNBC Reports , The Rachel Maddow Show , and Alex Wagner Tonight on Peacock , and The Choice from MSNBC folded into
18392-415: The revamp of MSNBC's early-primetime and primetime schedule. On July 10, Tucker (formerly The Situation with Tucker Carlson ) started airing at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET (taking over Abrams' old timeslot), while Rita Cosby 's Live & Direct was canceled. Cosby was made the primary anchor for MSNBC Investigates at 10 and 11 p.m. ET, a new program that took over Cosby and Carlson's timeslots. According to
18544-421: The run-up to the dot-com bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis a decade later. In response to these criticisms, CNBC anchors have pointed to the size of the market and noted that influencing it is "a little out of our reach". Jon Stewart on Comedy Central 's The Daily Show has been a vocal critic of CNBC and some of its personalities, beginning after comments were made by Rick Santelli . Despite
18696-429: The size of NBC, its parent. After an accounting scandal , FNN filed for bankruptcy protection on March 2, 1991, and put itself up for sale. After a bidding war with a Dow Jones & Company – Westinghouse Broadcasting consortium, CNBC was awarded FNN by a bankruptcy judge for $ 154.3 million on May 21, 1991, and merged the two operations. CNBC hired around 60 of FNN's 300-person workforce, including Joe Kernen who
18848-740: The station's news department, and replace national newscasts and late-prime time network programs vacated as a result of losing its NBC affiliation (the byproduct of an affiliation switch caused by CBS and WSVN's former network partner NBC buying other stations in the market) with additional newscasts. This model was eventually replicated by many other stations affiliated with the post-1986 television networks as well as some news-producing independent stations (beginning with Fox's 1994 deals with New World Communications and SF Broadcasting that saw several major network stations change their affiliations), and also resulted in even NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates adopting similar scheduling formats (tweaked to account for
19000-602: The station's on-air branding (such as combining the network affiliation and channel number with the word "News"), others use franchised brand names (like Eyewitness News , Action News and NewsChannel ) for their news programming. Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, which uses
19152-456: The stock market, often beating those of CNN during market hours. The highest daytime viewership of the network in 2000 was 343,000. However, after the burst of the dot-com bubble , CNBC's viewing figures declined in tandem. In 2002, CNBC's ratings fell 44% and were down another 5% in 2003. The network's ratings steadily fell until bottoming in Q1 2005, with an average viewership of 134,000 during
19304-514: The stories CNN was running. NBC also highlighted their broadcast connections by airing stories directly from NBC's network affiliates, along with breaking news coverage from the same sources. MSNBC gradually increased its emphasis on politics. After completing its seven-year survey of cable channels, the Project for Excellence in Journalism said in 2007 that "MSNBC is moving to make politics
19456-499: The syndicated news program The Daily Buzz , while some Tribune Broadcasting -owned CW and MyNetworkTV stations air a similar program called EyeOpener ). 24-hour news channels are devoted to current events around the clock. They are often referred to as cable news channels. The format was originated by the cable television channel CNN (Cable News Network), which was established in 1980. Many other television channels have since been established, including what has become known as
19608-543: The talk radio model. Hyper-local news is also more feasible on the Internet: issues such as school board meetings streamed on video, town parades, and so on. Silent news films were shown in cinemas from the late 19th century. In 1909 Pathé started producing weekly newsreels in Europe. Pathé began producing newsreels for the UK in 1910 and the US in 1911. News broadcasts in the United States were initially transmitted over
19760-407: The terminology varies around the world) segueing into news stories filed by a reporter (or correspondent) by describing the story to be shown; however, some stories within the broadcast are read by the presenter themselves; in the former case, the anchor "tosses" to the reporter to introduce the featured story; likewise, the reporter "tosses" back to the anchor once the taped report has concluded and
19912-466: The third quarter of 2010, MSNBC continued its solid lead over CNN, beating the network in total day for the first time since the second quarter of 2001 in the key adult demographic. The network also beat CNN for the fourth consecutive quarter, among both primetime and total viewers, as well as becoming the only cable news network to have its key adult demographic viewership grow over the last quarter, increasing by 4 percent. During this time, MSNBC also became
20064-485: The thirty largest companies from emerging markets . Profits at CNBC exceeded $ 333 million in 2007, making CNBC the second most profitable of NBC Universal's thirteen cable channels in the United States, behind only the USA Network . Ratings hit an all-time high in 2007. CNBC Africa was launched on June 1, 2007. On October 22, 2007, CNBC introduced the "CNBC Investor Network", a network of webcams stationed in
20216-486: The time); usually these programs aired as supplements to network-supplied evening news programs or leadouts for primetime programming. Reports featured on local and national television newscasts during this time were generally provided via film or still photography; eventually, videotape began to be used to provide live coverage of news events. The 1950s also saw the first use of airborne newsgathering; most notably, in 1958, Los Angeles television station KTLA began operating
20368-427: The two shows consist of highlighted segments from The Beat and MSNBC's personality-based programs respectively. On November 20, 2024, NBCUniversal announced its intent to spin off most of its cable networks, including MSNBC, as a new publicly-traded company controlled by Comcast shareholders. It is currently unclear how the spin-off will affect MSNBC, including whether it will still be able to use NBC News resources or
20520-442: The umbrella title Breakfast Television and its flagship station CITY-DT / Toronto 's evening newscasts are titled CityNews ). Overall umbrella titles for news programming use the titling schemes " (Network or system name) News " for network-owned stations or " (Callsign) News " for affiliates not directly owned by a network or television system (although the latter title scheme was used on some network-owned stations prior to
20672-448: The umbrella title Hechos . In the cases of Univision and Telemundo, both of their evening news programs compete with national evening news programs on their English-language competitors. Fox, The CW, and MyNetworkTV do not produce national morning and evening news programs (although Fox made a brief attempt at a morning program from 1996 to 1997 with Fox After Breakfast ; many CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates and independent stations air
20824-544: The umbrella website for the television network. A New York Times article quotes Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com, a separate company, as saying, "Both strategies are fine, but naming them the same thing is brand insanity." As a result, msnbc.com eventually changed its name to prevent confusion with the television network, MSNBC; it rebranded the more news-driven msnbc.com as NBCNews.com in July 2012. On January 21, 2011, Olbermann announced his departure from MSNBC and
20976-410: The uniform news and general branding NewsChannel 4 ). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like Daybreak , Good Morning (city or region name) , First at Four , Live at Five , Eleven @ 11:00 , or Nightcast . These names are intended to set one station apart from the rest, especially for viewers who are chosen for audience measurement surveys. If the respondent was unable to provide
21128-596: The up-to-the-minute coverage being provided by NBC News as a supplement to the longer stories on broadcast NBC. With little financial news to cover, CNBC and CNBC Europe ran MSNBC for many hours each day following the attacks. The year also boosted the profile of Ashleigh Banfield , who was present during the collapse of Building 7 while covering the World Trade Center on September 11. Her Region In Conflict program capitalized on her newfound celebrity and showcased exclusive interviews from Afghanistan . In
21280-498: The variable scheduling of network sports programming (if a station is affiliated with a network with a sports division) usually prevents most stations from carrying midday newscasts (however a few stations located in the Eastern and Pacific time zones do produce weekend midday newscasts). From the 1940s to the 1960s, broadcast television stations typically provided local news programs only one to two times each evening for 15 minutes (the normal length for many locally produced programs at
21432-453: The wake of the January 6 United States Capitol attack , exceeding the ratings of Fox News for the first time since 2000. On March 29, 2021, MSNBC introduced a refreshed logo and on-air imaging, including a rebranding of its MSNBC Live rolling news block as MSNBC Reports (in support of Jones' goal of clearer separation between news- and analysis-based programs). Brian Williams departed
21584-420: Was "the highest-rated non-Fox News show in the demo" on cable news, AdWeek reported. MSNBC and its website were founded in 1996, under a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric 's NBC unit, hence the network's name. Microsoft divested itself of MSNBC in 2005, and its stake in msnbc.com in 2012. The general news site was rebranded as NBCNews.com , and a new msnbc.com was created. MSNBC has been
21736-433: Was 1.2 million, compared to rival Fox News's 2.3 million, a decline of 21% from the previous year, and with 148,000 viewers in the "key demographic" of viewers aged 25-54. In 2023, Variety reported that The Beat was one of the two "most-watched news programs on cable", alongside The Five on Fox News. During the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention , MSNBC had an average viewership of over 5 million,
21888-423: Was an abridged version of Dateline NBC and another step towards aligning MSNBC and NBC News. The new program was hosted by MSNBC Live anchor Tamron Hall . In September 2016, MSNBC launched The 11th Hour with Brian Williams as a nightly wrap-up of the day's news and a preview of the following day's headlines. This was MSNBC's first new primetime program in nearly four years. In January 2017, MSNBC debuted
22040-415: Was an exclusive carriage agreement between MSNBC and Cablevision that prohibited competing wired providers from carrying MSNBC. The terms of the agreement were not publicly known. In 2009, Verizon filed a formal "program-access complaint" with the Federal Communications Commission and petitioned for termination of the deal. In support of Verizon, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal argued that
22192-490: Was founded by Douglas Tavolaro, who had originally founded CNN Brasil . On November 20, 2024, NBCUniversal announced its intent to spin off most of its cable networks, including CNBC, as a new publicly-traded company controlled by Comcast shareholders. It is currently unclear how the spin-off will affect CNBC, including whether it will still be able to use NBC News resources or the NBC brand. CNBC had largely operated autonomously from NBC News until Cesar Conde became head of
22344-411: Was launched on July 15, 1996. The first show was anchored by Jodi Applegate and included news, interviews, and commentary . During the day, rolling news coverage continued with The Contributors , a show that featured Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham , as well as interactive programming coordinated by Applegate, John Gibson , and John Seigenthaler . Stories were generally longer and more detailed than
22496-519: Was led primarily by Brian Williams, Stephanie Ruhle , Jose Diaz-Balart, Andrea Mitchell, Craig Melvin, Thomas Roberts, and Kate Snow, in addition to "beat leaders" stationed throughout the newsroom. These included chief legal correspondent Ari Melber , primary political reporter Steve Kornacki , business and finance correspondent Olivia Sterns, and senior editor Cal Perry . Morning and primetime programming did not change and remained filled mostly by opinionated personalities. In April 2016, MSNBC launched
22648-585: Was relegated to the weekend. News programs presented by established NBC News personalities such as Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart , Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd , NBC Nightly News Sunday anchor Kate Snow , Thomas Roberts , and former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams replaced the opinion shows. The revamped on-air presentation debuted in late summer 2015 and included a new logo, news ticker, and graphics package. MSNBC Live had at least eight hours of programming each day, barring any breaking news that could extend its time. Daytime news coverage
22800-445: Was shifted to Phil Griffin, a senior vice president at NBC. MSNBC and NBC News began broadcasting from their new studios at NBC's 30 Rockefeller Center complex in New York City on October 22, 2007. The extensive renovations of the associated studios allowed NBC to merge its entire news operation into one building. All MSNBC broadcasts and NBC Nightly News originate from the new studios. More than 12.5 hours of live television across
22952-522: Was the first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News , a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948. All four major English networks and the two largest Spanish networks also carry political talk programs on Sunday mornings (NBC's Meet
23104-466: Was the first murder to have been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The coverage provided by the local stations eventually led to further investments and technological developments to provide real-time news; newsgathering vehicles equipped with satellites began to be used on the local and national levels beginning in the 1970s. During the 1960s and 1970s, many stations began to provide additional news programming, beginning with midday news programs; in
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