MSNBC opens daytime hours for breaking news; Brian Williams will helm

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If you want to know the future look of MSNBC, take a look at its past.

The network's selling points when it launched in 1996 was the power of NBC News on cable and an up-and-coming anchor named Brian Williams.

Nearly 20 years later, Williams will be at the forefront of an effort to make the channel a destination when news happens in daytime. NBC News on-air correspondents, a less frequent presence on MSNBC in recent years as the channel added more politically progressive talking heads, will play a larger role again.

NBC News and MSNBC Chairman Andy Lack cleared a path for the strategic shift this week with the cancellation of three daytime programs: "The Cycle," "Now With Alex Wagner" and "The Ed Show."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-msnbc-reinvention-williams-20150801-story.html

[NightWatcher]

1. I like the name of William's new show

"Hey, it could've happened"

Up first, the time he reported from Hitler's bunker

[Fawke Em]

2. It was on already this week and is boring as hell.

They repeated the same shit every hour.

If they're opening up for news, maybe they should do some investigative reporting.