MSNBC Live

MSNBC Live is the name of several hours of straight news programming on the network (both weekdays and weekends), similar to what is known as "dayside" programming on other cable news channels. Beginning in 2009, MSNBC began to fill in these hours with more "opinionated" news programming. During the network's pivot back to hard news in 2015, the name returned during daytime hours. The brand is also used during holidays and as fill-in programming when a show ends or is canceled until a new show is ready.

The program aired at various times through the years, but most recently aired Saturdays from 2-4pm ET, and Sundays from 3-4pm ET until late 2014, when the program's anchor, Craig Melvin, was reassigned, seeing the end of the program.

Following major changes to MSNBC's dayside lineup announced in February 2015, Thomas Roberts was appointed to a new weekday time slot from 1-3pm ET under the Live branding, beginning on March 2. Later in August 2015, MSNBC Live was extended to 1-6pm ET, replacing the canceled The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner, and The Ed Show.

On October 5, 2015, Jose Diaz-Balart's morning program, The Daily Rundown, and Tamron Hall's show of five years, NewsNation, were reverted to the Live branding, airing at 9am and 11am ET, respectively. In July 2016, Diaz-Balart left the program to begin his new duties as anchor of NBC Nightly News Saturday. Today Show weekend anchor Craig Melvin replaced Diaz-Balart.[1]

On December 15, 2016, MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts was quietly cancelled with no public announcement made, and was removed from the show the day after. MSNBC moved Roberts into a weekend anchor role at the network, as well as a contributor role to the Today Show.[2][3][4] In January 2017, Hallie Jackson was confirmed to host the 10am ET time slot and Katy Tur were confirmed to host the 2pm ET for the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency.[5]

In March 2017, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack indicated that Live editions would begin receiving more "NBC News" branding, as both the show and its parent network continued to streamline their resources and news-gathering staff.[6] A number of hosts were either departed or revamped, beginning with Tamron Hall whom she departed on February 1, 2017,[7] followed by Kate Snow with her final edition of the program on April 21, 2017; Snow transitioned away from her anchoring duties on the show toward more long-form reporting and an expansion of her role as the Sunday anchor for NBC Nightly News.[8] Steve Kornacki's 4pm slot was ended on May 8, 2017, as the time slow was given to Nicolle Wallace under the new name Deadline: White House. Kornacki remains with the network as the new national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.

Beginning in 2020, MSNBC began revamping its lineup, particularly for the weekend programming. Earlier in the year, Ali Velshi moved from his weekday 3pm slot to hosts his own two-hour show at 8am to 10am weekends.[9] Later on, from the weekends of March 21–22 to September 12–13, 2020, weekend edition of Live were expanded up to 10pm, at one case up to 1am, for special coverage of COVID-19 pandemic and protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. In August 2020, more weekday dayside changes were announced to coincide with the first day of the Democratic National Convention. MTP Daily, the network's 5pm politics-oriented show, was moved to 1pm starting August 17 (the program's old hour would be covered by another hour of Deadline: White House).[10] Furthermore, Ayman Mohyeldin, the host of Morning Joe First Look were tapped to host Live at 3pm.

During instances where a time slot was vacated or expanded due to special coverage, MSNBC often branded the time slot as Live. For instance, between March 3 (the day after Chris Matthews retired from his show, as well as Super Tuesday by coincidence) and July 20, 2020, when Joy Reid was named the permanent replacement, the 7pm weeknight hour was filled with MSNBC Live: Decision 2020, a hybrid newscast covering both the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 election.

MSNBC Live, broadcasting from NBC News' Studio 4E.

For the most part, each block of the program maintains an element of autonomy and different segments depending on who is hosting. For example, Stephanie Ruhle's edition of the show is formatted similarly to a morning news show, while Hallie Jackson's edition usually originates from Washington DC, where she is based, or an on-site location of the President's travels. However, all editions of the program focus on, breaking news events notwithstanding, live political news and developments. This portion of the news is primarily reported through daytime by Washington, D.C.-based staffers such as NBC News Capital Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, judicial correspondent Pete Williams, Chief White House correspondents Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker, Peter Alexander and national correspondent Chris Jansing.

Currently, MSNBC Live airs from 9am to Noon and 2pm to 4pm ET each weekday. On weekends, it airs from 6am to 8am and 3pm to 5pm ET. The running time can be extended, even into the night, if breaking news warrants. Andrea Mitchell's eponymous show, Andrea Mitchell Reports, airs weekdays from 12pm to 1pm ET. Alex Witt broadcast "Weekends with Alex Witt" is now a separate broadcast outside of MSNBC Live.

While Andrea Mitchell Reports and Weekends with Alex Witt with are branded separately from MSNBC Live, their programming style and graphics package are often noticeably similar with MSNBC Live.

MSNBC and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24-hour news network OSN News in MENA Region, including MSNBC Live and several other MSNBC shows.

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• "MSNBC Live" with Thomas Roberts
• "MSNBC Live" with Kate Snow
• "MSNBC Live" with Craig Melvin website
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