No More MSNBC...

[KharmaTrain]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MSNBC_MICROSOFT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-15-22-16-31

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft is pulling out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC.com, freeing the world's largest software maker to build its own online news service.

The breakup announced late Sunday dissolves the final shreds of a 16-year marriage between Microsoft Corp. and NBC News, which is now owned by Comcast Corp. The relationship began to unwind in 2005 when Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC's cable TV channel to NBC.

NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com.

Looks like the biggest change will be on the website and the TV side will become NBCNews...which it has been for many years anyway.

Discuss...

[KT2000]

1. UK Mail online

is reporting it is because MSNBC went to the left.
That is spin from a RW rag.

[discopants]

2. Maybe now they will program the whole weekend

and get rid of the prison bullshit.

[Raine]

4. I doubt it, those prison shows get real high ratings. There was an article a couple

weeks ago in TV Guide about how popular that crap is. Lots of celebrities are even hooked on it, I doublt they'll ever get rid of it. I could hardly believe people watch that garbage but that's what the article said.

[customerserviceguy]

10. It's the same viewership as Jerry Springer

Losers who watch, and say to themselves, "Well, my life sucks, but it's not as bad as these clowns I can pity on TV."

[PoliticAverse]

3. Should have just renamed in LinuxNBC... n/t

[Firebrand Gary]

5. I don't what network does what as long as we get a real one like Newsroom! nt

[dipsydoodle]

9. Yo !

I'm still impressed with that just from watching the first double episode here in the UK last week.

[demgrrrll]

6. What date does this transfer actually take place? the articles I have read have them

hammering out the details but no set dates.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Is this the beginning of getting rid of the progressive evening line-up?

I don't know if Bill Gates ever was progressive. He's more of a Republican to me.

God forbid people actually get real facts delivered by an American news source! And educated people is dangerous to the oligarchy and plutocrats in this country.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Nope...Gates Was Never Involved With The Television...

NBC News runs all the content on the cable teevee side...this is mostly about the MSNBC website that Microsoft had been operating since '96.

To my knowledge all the evening hosts have contracts and it'd be difficult to yank all those shows without NBC having to do something they loathe to do...pay people who no longer work for them. Of all the cable channels MSNBC has been the strongest in recent years as faux noise numbers are down 33% of where they were in 2008 and Chicken Noodle Nooze is battling with Home Shopping for the shut-ins and people whose TV sets only get one channel...

[MADem]

8. They should team up with CURRENT and kick some serious ass. They won't, but I like the idea. nt

[Vinca]

11. I was thinking that same thing this morning after 5 minutes of "Morning Joe."

It was like a Mitt Romney informercial.