MSNBC Shakes Up Weekend Schedule, Launching Panel Show, Bumping Medhi Hasan
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor MSNBC is shaking up its weekend schedule as CNN’s Saturday and Sunday offerings continue to provide competition.
The NBCUniversal cable-news outlet plans to a launch a new panel show, “The Weekend,” co-moderated by Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders-Townsend and Michael Steele that will air Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m.
to 10 a.m. That move will consolidate anchors who had been active on the weekend schedule in their own time slots, and leave room for change. “As Decision 2024 ramps up, the show will provide thoughtful analysis and coverage on the state of our country from three trusted voices familiar to the MSNBC audience,” said Rashida Jones, president of MSNBC, in a memo to staffers.
Alex Witt, one of the longest-serving news anchors on MSNBC, gets new hours to fill, with an expanded 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. slot on both Saturday and Sunday.
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