First time MS NOW doing an election. Pretty poor they don’t have a result ticker at the bottom of the screen.
Graphics and set look great though.
noticed that MSNOW is showing American ads rather that the constant self promotions, is this new?
I guess they have stopped making a global feed.
I’m seeing the American ads on MS NOW via Fetch (lotsa pharmaceutical ads!). I’m guessing that it’s a bug rather than a feature.
Rest easy - the American commercials are gone, and the podcast promos are back on MS NOW.
There probably weren’t enough results to justify a ticker. They may have rotated 5 relevant elections if they had a ticker.
Major changes coming to MS NOW’s schedule from June, as Ana Cabrera announced today her departure from the network, citing her decision to “make a change”.
With the announcement of Cabrera’s departure, the network’s programming is being changed in most of its prime slots: Morning Joe is being reduced to three hours, from 6 to 9am ET, and Stephanie Ruhle will anchor a new, business-focused, dayside news programme “that sets the agenda for the day”, taking a cue from The 11th Hour; Ali Velshi will take Ruhle’s place in the latter programme.
The 11am hour is currently vacant, but the 12pm-2pm ET slot is being taken over by Alicia Menendez, who will anchor a new programme in the slot, with Chris Jansing demoted to reporting, though she has been announced as the broadcaster’s “Chief Political Reporter” in the runup to the midterm elections. Menendez’s spot on The Weeknight will be filled by Luke Russert, currently leading MS NOW’s live event strategy.
With Velshi returning to weekdays, Jacob Soboroff, LA-based senior correspondent, will anchor a new weekend dayside show on Velshi’s current time slot. It is the first LA-based show which the network will air under its current name. All other shows remain unchanged, in time slots, personalities and format.
The changes will start in June.
As the country’s preeminent political morning news trio, even with this change, [Morning Joe] will still anchor more hours than any other cable news program.
I guess what Fox puts out 6-9am and CNN puts out 7-10am are infomercials.
A sad day for local news.
If even Newsmax spoke out against it…
Likewise, Newsmax Media, Inc. (Newsmax) asserts that “[r]etransmitting the same news—which will likely be weaker, less local, and more national—on an additional weak station does nothing to provide public interest benefits.”
And the damage would be irreparable.
Nexstar was the most active controller of duplicating station pairs (22%), followed by Gray (17%).
Nexstar are just rearranging the deck chairs. The moment the MAGA movement disembowels itself, they’ll be screwed six ways from Sunday.
Nexstar Media Group declared Thursday that its $6.2 billion takeover of rival TV station company Tegna had closed — but now eight state attorneys general seeking to block the merger have stepped up their legal fight.
I wish those AGs the very best of luck.
CNBC has axed Worldwide Exchange after nearly 20 years. This will be its replacement starting tonight 8pm AEDT.
Its tagline is “Your insight at first light”.
Opener:
MS NOW VIEWERSHIP UP 20% YEAR-OVER-YEAR; UP 43% IN THE DEMO
MS NOW Posts Fifth Consecutive Month of Year-Over-Year Growth Typical
MS NOW Viewer Watches Nine Hours A Week;
Higher Engagement Than Every Broadcast Network
Records Strongest April on Record for ms.now Page Views
MS NOW has slightly updated. Not a fan of the new typeface.
https://www.newscaststudio.com/2026/05/15/ms-now-insert-graphics-update-526/
