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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC)[1][2] 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.

For MSNBC's editorial management and division parent, see NBC News.

Country

United States

United States and Canada

English

1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)

July 15, 1996 (1996-07-15)

America's Talking
(1994–1996)
MSNBC Canada
(in Canada)

As of September 2018, approximately 87 million households in the United States (90.7 percent of pay television subscribers) were receiving MSNBC.


In 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.[3] In 2023, one of MSNBC's most watched shows, The Beat with Ari Melber, averaged 1.8 million viewers.[4] 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.[5][6][7][8] In November 2023, MSNBC's most watched nightly shows were The Beat with Ari Melber and Deadline: White House; The Beat was "the highest-rated non-Fox News show in the demo" on cable news, AdWeek reported.[9][10]


MSNBC and its website were founded in 1996, under a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, hence the network's name.[2][1] 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.[11]

1912

Universal Pictures is founded

NBC is founded

MCA Inc. establishes Revue Studios (later Universal Television)

NBC begins first compatible color broadcasts, preceding other networks by nine years

NBC's first peacock logo debuts

American Cable Systems is founded

NBC broadcasts the first Super Bowl

American Cable Systems rebrands to Comcast

Comcast began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

Universal releases Jaws

PolyGram renames Casablanca Record & Filmworks to PolyGram Pictures

Universal releases E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Walter Lantz Productions is sold to Universal

Universal releases Back to the Future

General Electric buys RCA for $6.4 billion, including NBC and a stake in A&E

NBC relaunches Tempo Television as CNBC

Universal Studios Florida opens
Law & Order premieres on NBC
Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merge to form British Sky Broadcasting
Universal Cartoon Studios (later Universal Animation Studios) is established

Universal releases Jurassic Park

NBC and Microsoft launch MSNBC

Barry Diller purchases Universal's domestic television assets

Seagram acquires PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Universal Television is renamed Studios USA Television

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment is folded into Universal Pictures
Universal Studios Florida expands to become Universal Orlando Resort

Grand opening of Universal Studios Japan
Universal releases The Fast and the Furious
Vivendi purchases Studios USA

NBC acquires Telemundo and Bravo
Studios USA assets are folded into Universal
Focus Features is formed
Comcast acquires AT&T Broadband for $44.5 billion

Universal becomes the first studio with five summer releases breaking the $100 million mark

GE and Vivendi merge NBC and Universal into NBCUniversal

The Office premieres on NBC
Comcast sets up a joint-venture with PBS, Sesame Workshop & HIT Entertainment to form PBS Kids Sprout
Comcast & Time Warner Cable jointly acquire Adelphia Cable assets for $17.6 billion

USA Network begins 13-year streak as #1 cable network in total viewers

Illumination is founded

Universal releases Illumination's first film Despicable Me

Vivendi divested in NBCU; Comcast buys 51% of NBCU from GE, turning it into a limited liability company
NBCUniversal Archives is founded

Universal celebrates its 100th anniversary
NBCUniversal divests its A&E Networks minority stake

Comcast buys GE's remaining 49% of NBCU
Comcast/NBCU assumes full ownership of Sprout

Comcast attempts to acquire Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion
NBCUniversal reaches a new long-term deal with WWE

NBCU acquires DreamWorks Animation

Sprout relaunches as Universal Kids

Comcast acquires Sky after a heated bidding war with 21st Century Fox

NBCU acquires Cineo Lighting

NBCU launches Peacock

Grand opening of Universal Beijing Resort

The Super Mario Bros. Movie becomes Illumination's highest-grossing film

Radio

MSNBC launched on XM Satellite Radio channel 120 and Sirius Satellite Radio channel 90 on April 12, 2010.[105] This is the second time MSNBC has been available on satellite radio. The channel was dropped from XM Radio on September 4, 2006.[106]


The simulcast of MSNBC's programming is on SiriusXM channel 118.[107]

Ariens, Chris (November 15, 2007). . TVNewser. Archived from the original on October 1, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2017.

"MSNBC Expands to South Africa"

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Official website

on YouTube (MSNBC News; July 29, 2022)

Video (18:49): "Inside Trump's Election Plot"

MSNBC West Internet Archive