New MSNBC Line-Up Will Maintain Progressive Focus

MSNBC unveiled a revamped schedule on Monday, shaking up its programming with a mix of cancellations, talent reshuffles, and expansions. 

The network is shuffling “The Weekend” team—Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez—to a new weekday 7 p.m. ensemble news program (title TBD), while keeping “The Weekend” alive with fresh faces, including Jonathan Capehart. This shift likely spells the end for Capehart’s “The Saturday Show” and “The Sunday Show.” An evening edition of “The Weekend” is also in the works, with Ayman Mohyeldin tapped as one of the hosts, suggesting his current show “Ayman” may be on the chopping block since the announcement didn’t detail weekend slots beyond 6 p.m.

High-profile cancellations include “The ReidOut” and “Alex Wagner Tonight.” Joy Reid is departing MSNBC entirely, while Alex Wagner transitions to a senior political analyst role. Until the bulk of these changes kick in by April 2025, “The ReidOut” will feature rotating anchors. Elsewhere, “José Díaz-Balart Reports” and “The Katie Phang Show” are also getting axed, though Díaz-Balart will keep anchoring weekend “NBC Nightly News,” and Phang steps into a legal analyst gig.

Rebecca Kutler

In primetime, “The Rachel Maddow Show” scales back to weekly after Trump’s first 100 days in his second term, handing the Tuesday-to-Friday slot to Jen Psaki. On weekends, “Velshi” with Ali Velshi grows to a three-hour block (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.), followed by “Alex Witt Reports” as usual.

Dayside sees “Ana Cabrera Reports” stretching to two hours (10 a.m. to noon), “Chris Jansing Reports” shifting to noon for its own two-hour run, and “Katy Tur Reports” expanding afterward. This realignment absorbs the noon slot once held by “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” which wrapped up on February 7, 2025—though Mitchell stays on as an NBC News correspondent.

MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler made the announcement official, signaling a broader push that includes a new standalone D.C. bureau ahead of a planned spinoff. The network’s “The Weekend” brand is also set to grow, leaning on both new and familiar talent to reshape its lineup.

Kutler sent the following memo to staffers:

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.