- For Microsoft Network, see msn.
MSNBC, often shortened as the MicroSoft National Broadcasting Company, is an American news-based television channel and website. It is owned by NBCUniversal—a subsidiary of Comcast. Headquarters in New York City, it provides news coverage and political commentary.
As of September 2018, approximately 87 million households in the United States (90.7 percent of pay television subscribers) were receiving MSNBC. In 2022, MSNBC averaged 1.2 million weekday primetime viewers, behind rival Fox News, which averaged 2.3 million viewers. 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 its stakes in the MSNBC channel in 2005 and its stakes in msnbc.com in July 2012.[1] The general news site was rebranded as NBCNews.com, and a new msnbc.com was created as the online home of the cable channel. In the late summer of 2015, MSNBC revamped its programming by entering into a dual editorial relationship with its organizational parent, NBC News. MSNBC Reports, the network's flagship daytime news platform, was expanded to cover over eight hours of the day.
Channel
The channel was started on December 11, 2011,[2] and it started to post some daily news from America and others.
Microsoft and NBC creation of MSNBC
MSNBC was originally named America's Talking until 1996,[3] Microsoft and NBC are working together to launch the MSNBC.
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