Brian Williams is expected to get his own time slot on MSNBC between Labor Day and Election Day, according to sources with knowledge of the plan, according to money.conn.com.
According to the plan, Williams will anchor a special 11 p.m. program wrapping up the day's campaign news, the sources said.
The plan is subject to change until the scheduling move is officially announced. But the Williams program has been under consideration for weeks inside MSNBC.
One of the sources said it will be a half hour show, with MSNBC's usual replays of prime time programming picking up at 11:30 p.m.
With a nightly program, even a temporary one, Williams will be coming full circle at MSNBC.
He anchored a prime time newscast at MSNBC when the channel launched in 1996. Later he rose to the top of the NBC News hierarchy, anchoring the "NBC Nightly News" for a decade.
But he was removed from the "Nightly News" chair last year amid a controversy over exaggerated stories.
After a six-month suspension, he returned to MSNBC last September as the channel's chief breaking news anchor, appearing during the daytime to cover developing stories and special events.
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