MSNBC announces revised lineup

MSNBC has announced an updated schedule that features a cluster of cancellations alongside shifting “The Weekend” team to weekdays while simultaneously expanding the brand with other talent.

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As previously reported, Joy Reid and Alex Wagner’s shows, “The ReidOut” and “Alex Wagner Tonight,” will end.

Reid is leaving the network and Wager will become a senior political analyst. 

Between Reid’s exit and April 2025, when most of the program changes are scheduled to take place, “The ReidOut” slot will be filled with rotating anchors.

The changes were officially announced by MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.

MSNBC is also ending “José Díaz-Balart Reports” and “The Katie Phang Show,” with Díaz-Balart continuing to anchor weekend editions of “NBC Nightly News” and Phang becoming a legal analyst.

Back in primetime, Jen Psaki is taking over the Tuesday through Friday slot once “The Rachel Maddow Show” switches back to a weekly schedule after the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second administration.

Also as previously reported, the network will move Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez to weekdays at 7 p.m. for what is described as an “ensemble news program.” A title was not announced. 

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Sanders-Townsend, Steele and Menendez’s move to weekdays comes after the network launched “The Weekend” around the trio. MSNBC will continue “The Weekend” with new co-hosts, one of which will be Jonathan Capehart. Capehart’s “The Saturday Show” and “The Sunday Show” will end.

MSNBC will also add an evening edition of the program, with its own set of hosts. Ayman Mohyeldin has already been named to one of those spots. As part of that move, Mohyeldin’s standlalone show “Ayman” is also slated to end.

Also on weekends, “Velshi” with Ali Velshi, will gain another hour adn run form 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., when “Alex Witt Reports” takes over as it does now.

On weekdays dayside, “Ana Cabrera Reports” will expand an hour and air from 10 a.m. to noon. “Chris Jansing Reports” is moving up to start its two-hour run at noon and will be followed by an expanded version of “Katy Tur Reports.”

These weekday changes mean that the spot formerly occupied by Andrea Mitchell, noon eastern, will be absorbed into “MSNBC Reports.” Mitchell ended her stint as anchor of “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Feb. 7, 2025, but remains with NBC News as a correspondent. 

Full text of Kutler’s memo below:

Team,

As I shared with many of you a few weeks ago, my goal is to build on the successes that have distinguished MSNBC from its peers. We now have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television and are seeing rapid growth across digital, audio, and more. In the years ahead, we must continue to show up for our audiences in this critical moment while simultaneously best positioning ourselves for the future.

Today, I am sharing updates to our weekday and weekend lineups. I had hoped to share this with all of you directly and understand the frustration that you first learned about this over the weekend and not from me.

• In primetime, Jen Psaki will move to the 9 p.m. hour on Tuesdays through Fridays. Since joining MSNBC, Psaki has become a crucial and trusted voice for the network. Her Sunday program is now the most-watched show on the weekends, her expansion to Mondays has been a fast success, and “The Blueprint with Jen Psaki” has quickly become a top-rated news podcast.
• Following the first 100 days of the Trump administration, “The Rachel Maddow Show” will return to Mondays at 9 p.m.
• Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, the current co-hosts of “The Weekend,” will move to weekdays at 7 p.m. to host a new ensemble news program with a two-hour edition on Mondays. Since its launch, “The Weekend” has seen a significant and sustained increase in audience engagement, and we are excited to build on that momentum during the week.
• Joy Reid is leaving the network and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years. Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series. In the coming weeks, rotating anchors will host the hour.
• Alex Wagner will remain a senior political analyst with the network and continue to bring her journalistic and production expertise to MSNBC audiences across all day parts. Her reporting ahead of the 2024 election and in the early days of the new administration has provided audiences with an indispensable perspective at a key moment in American politics.
• We are increasing live programming by two hours on the weekends. Soon, we will announce a new trio of co-hosts for “The Weekend,” which will include MSNBC host and The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart. We will also introduce an evening edition of the program, hosted by a different group of anchors, including veteran MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin. We will have more to share in the weeks ahead.
• Ali Velshi will also expand his namesake program, “Velshi” to three hours on the weekends.
• In the coming months, MSNBC will consolidate its broadcast locations to New York and Washington, D.C. and sunset our production operations in Miami. This change will impact the Miami-based shows “José Díaz-Balart Reports” and “The Katie Phang Show.” Díaz-Balart will remain with NBC News as anchor of “Weekend Nightly News” and Phang will remain with MSNBC as a legal correspondent.
• On the dayside front, “Ana Cabrera Reports” will expand to 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; “Chris Jansing Reports” will shift to 12 to 2 p.m., and “Katy Tur Reports” will add another hour to anchor from 2 to 4 p.m.

Unless otherwise noted above, these changes will go into effect in late April.

In the coming months, I will have more news to share on expanding our Washington operation, including establishing a bureau, and building a team of domestic and international correspondents.

Thank you for your continued commitment to our shared mission of keeping our audiences informed across all of our platforms. Team leaders and HR managers will meet with various groups throughout the day to discuss all of this in more detail.

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Weekday Programming
5 a.m. ET “Way Too Early with Ali Vitali”
6 a.m. ET “Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist”
10 a.m. ET “Ana Cabrera Reports”
12 p.m. ET “Chris Jansing Reports”
2 p.m. ET “Katy Tur Reports”
4 p.m. ET “Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace”
6 p.m. ET “The Beat with Ari Melber”
7 p.m. ET Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez
8 p.m. ET “All In with Chris Hayes” on Tuesdays – Fridays; Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez on Mondays
9 p.m. ET “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Mondays; Jen Psaki on Tuesdays – Fridays
10 p.m. ET “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”
11 p.m. ET “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle”

Weekend Programming
7 a.m. ET “The Weekend” co-hosted by Jonathan Capehart
10 a.m. ET “Velshi”
1 p.m. ET “Alex Witt Reports”
4 p.m. ET “Best Of”
5 p.m. ET “PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton”
6 p.m. ET “The Weekend” co-hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin

Thank you,

Rebecca