Report: MSNBC Resigns Phil Griffin

Phil Griffin

MSNBC’s president Phil Griffin has a new mult-year contract, according to a story at Deadline.com.

Still no announcement on 10 PM star Lawrence O’Donnell who tweeted May 17  that his contract expires June 4, promising to let fans know “where you can watch me June 5 if it’s not msnbc,” adding, “I’m sorry this situation has become public.”

MSNBC is riding a primetime ratings wave these days as viewers flock to latest antics of President Donald Trump and his administration. The week of May 15 marked the network’s first weekday primetime win in both the news demo and in total viewers. That week was MSBNC’s second consecutive weekday primetime win in the news demo – a first for the cable news network.

MSNBC’s crowning achievement has been Rachel Maddow taking over as the top rated primetime cable news program in the demo. Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly previously sat in that throne though, on occasion, he’d get tossed by Megyn Kelly, both of whom now are gone from that network.
O’Reilly was ousted in early April after a New York Times report tallied how much he and FNC had spent settling harassment allegations which led to advertiser bailout; meanwhile, Kelly makes her NBC News debut in early June.