David Ellison is no longer staying quiet. After months of legal challenges aimed at blocking Paramount's proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Paramount CEO has published a forceful New York Times op-ed arguing that the lawsuit brought by a...
The fallout from Charlie Kirk’s shocking death continues to ripple through media and politics. MSNBC has now fired longtime political analyst Matthew Dowd following his on-air remarks in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Kirk tragedy — comments that many blasted as insensitive, inflammatory, and outright disgraceful.
In what many are calling a last-ditch effort to revive flagging viewership, MSNBC is shedding its established name and Peacock logo in a bold rebranding to MS NOW—short for My Source News Opinion World. The changes come courtesy of Comcast’s spin-off of several cable channels into the new publicly traded entity, Versant, led by Mark Lazarus. But instead of injecting fresh vitality, the rebrand has coincided with another tumble in MSNBC ratings, reinforcing the narrative of a network struggling to stay relevant.
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s primetime star and the face of the network for more than a decade, has weighed in on the channel’s controversial rebrand to MS NOW. While much of the public response has mocked the new name as clunky and uninspired, Maddow insisted on her Monday broadcast that dropping the “NBC” will actually improve the network’s future.
MSNBC is no more. At least, not in name. The network unveiled a new identity on August 18, 2025, announcing MSNBC will soon be known as MS NOW as part of a corporate restructuring under a new media company called Versant. The change comes with a promise of editorial “independence,” a fresh logo, and the retirement of the iconic NBC Peacock.
The longtime liberal cable channel MSNBC is about to undergo the biggest change in its nearly three-decade history. According to a new report from CNBC, Comcast is spinning the network out into a separate company and rebranding it as MS NOW, removing all connections to NBC and even ditching the famous peacock logo.