MSNBC Reports

MSNBC Reports (formerly MSNBC Live) is the blanket title for the daytime rolling news programming of the American cable news channel MSNBC.

Programs under the banner are broadcast from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on weekdays, with a break at 1:00 p.m. for Chuck Todd's MTP Daily.

History[]

MSNBC Reports 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.

After Andrew Lack became chairman of the NBC News Group in 2015, MSNBC began to remove opinion-driven programs from its daytime lineup in favor of more live news programming.^[1] 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 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m, respectively. In July 2016, Diaz-Balart left MSNBC to begin his new duties as Saturday anchor of the NBC Nightly News. He was succeeded by Weekend Today anchor Craig Melvin.^[2] On December 15, 2016, Thomas Roberts was removed from the 3:00 p.m. hour.^[3]

In January 2017, Hallie Jackson and Katy Tur were announced as the new anchors for the 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. hours respectively.^[4] In February 2017, Tamron Hall departed from MSNBC and Today.^[5] In March 2017, MSNBC began to increase its use of NBC News branding during its daytime programming (including on sets and graphics), in order to emphasize its leverage of the division's resources.^[6] In April 2017, Kate Snow left the network, electing to focus more on long-form reporting and her role as a Sunday anchor for the NBC Nightly News.^[7] Steve Kornacki's 4:00 p.m. hour was replaced on May 8, 2017 with Deadline: White House, a new program hosted by Nicolle Wallace.^[8]

In 2020, Ali Velshi moved from the daytime lineup to weekend mornings, replacing David Gura's Up. Gura moved to a Saturday afternoon MSNBC Live block.^[9] On March 2, 2020, the 7 p.m. hour was filled with rotating anchors due to Chris Matthews' resignation from Hardball; this continued until the July 20 premiere of The ReidOut with Joy Reid.^[10][11]

On August 19, 2020, coinciding with the 2020 Democratic National Convention, MSNBC's weekday daytime lineup underwent a re-alignment: MTP Daily was moved to 1 p.m., Deadline: White House expanded to two hours, and Ayman Mohyeldin (host of Morning Joe First Look) began hosting the 3 p.m. hour.^[12] David Gura left the network in November 2020.^[13]

On March 29, 2021, as part of a wider rebranding of the channel, MSNBC rebranded most of its daytime programming under the blanket title MSNBC Reports, with the individual programs being branded with the anchor's name (such as Stephanie Ruhle Reports). The new branding was modeled after Andrea Mitchell Reports, and was introduced as part of an effort by new MSNBC president Rashida Jones to achieve a clearer separation between MSNBC's news-driven daytime lineup, and its pundit- and perspective-based primetime programming.^{[14][15][16][17]}

Format[]

For the most part, each program in the block has 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.

List of MSNBC Reports anchors[]

Weekdays[]

Weekends[]

See also[]

• CNN Newsroom
• America's Newsroom (Fox News)

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