The future of MSNBC?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Comcast, the parent corporation for NBCUniversal, has announced that MSNBC, along with CNBC, USA, Syfy, E!, and several other cable channels, will be spun off into a separate corporation. The process is expected to take a year to complete.

Comcast will keep the NBC broadcast television network, its film and television studios and its theme parks, as well as its Peacock streaming service.

This means that MSNBC will be separated from NBC News and will no longer have immediate access to the news apparatus and the reporters at NBC. The cable network may also have to change its name, since it will no longer be associated with NBC or Microsoft.

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The political content and the current lineup of programming are unlikely to change in the short term, but the move leaves open the possibility that future changes in personnel and direction could be subject to political winds and business decisions that are inherent and inevitable in the broadcast news business. Stay tuned.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/20/2287647/-The-future-of-MSNBC

[Voltaire2]

1. Some shitty billionaire will buy it and make it even worse.

Controlling the media is part of the authoritarian game plan.

[onenote]

2. It's being spun off to its existing shareholders.

That's not to say the spun off entity won't be involved in a sale, purchase, or merger transaction down the road. But nothing other than the planned spin off to shareholders is going to happen any time soon.