The Steady Drip: Ratings-Plagued MSNBC Ousts Host, Revamps Lineup (Connecting the Dots: Joy Reid, MSNBC, Quincy Jones, Millennium Promise & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Ratings-Plagued MSNBC Ousts Host, Revamps Lineup (Connecting the Dots: Joy Reid, MSNBC, Quincy Jones, Millennium Promise & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Newsmax.com

By Brian Freeman | Sunday, 23 February 2025 02:01 PM EST

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/msnbc-joy-reid-canceled/2025/02/23/id/1200169/

"The ReidOut" is being canceled by MSNBC as part of a major restructure of programming at the network, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

Joy Reid’s final episode of the show is scheduled for this upcoming week, with MSNBC intending to replace her slot with a new show co-led by three anchors – Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele – who currently co-host "The Weekend" show.

The cancellation of a show headed by one of the network’s most prominent hosts comes just a month after Rebecca Kutler became MSNBC president, replacing Rashida Jones, who ended a nearly four-year tenure.

An additional part of the overhaul is that Alex Wagner, who has hosted four weeknights at 9 p.m., is expected to be named a contributor.

Kutler has taken over as MSNBC faces difficult challenges, including the complexities of working with the Trump White House and being spun off along with other NBCU cable networks into a new publicly-traded company, according to Variety.

In addition, MSNBC is expected to lose some 10.5% of its subscribers between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, according to estimates from market research company Kagan.

As part of her intentions, Kutler has described plans to build an independent news gathering apparatus for MSNBC, which is expected to lose its ties to NBC News after the new company is formed.

Reid, who has been a weekday mainstay at MSNBC since 2020, was known for her unapologetically partisan views. However, the ratings for “The ReidOut” have dropped dramatically, with viewership off 28% in February through the 20th compared to the year-earlier period, according to Nielsen data.

Connecting the Dots:

The Reid Out Show was an MSNBC program.

Joy Reid was the Host of the Reid Out Show and she left journalism in 2003 to work with the group America Coming Together to oppose the Iraq War and President George W. Bush.

Joy Reid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Reid#Career

Career

She left journalism in 2003 to work with the group America Coming Together to oppose the Iraq War and President George W. Bush.

Patrick H. Gaspard was the national field director for America Coming Together and the White House political director for the Barack Obama administration.

George Soros was a supporter for America Coming Together, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and an advisory board member for the Earth Institute (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Millennium Promise and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Harold E. Ford Jr. was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee and is a political commentator at MSNBC.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a frequent contributor for MSNBC, a director, Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute (think tank) and a director at the Millennium Promise.

Quincy Jones was a director at the Millennium Promise, is a director emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and Rashida Jones’s father.

Rashida Jones

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429069/bio/

Biography

Rashida Jones was born in Los Angeles, California, the younger daughter of media mogul, producer, and musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She has an older sister, Kidada Jones, and five half-siblings by her father's other relationships. Her father is African-American and her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (a descendant of emigrants from Russia and Latvia). Rashida was raised in Reform Judaism. She grew up in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Jones has stated of her mixed race parentage, "It was the 1970s and still not that acceptable for them to be together." Jones made her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a 1997 mini-series based on the novel by Mario Puzo. Also in 1997, Rashida graduated from Harvard University.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ania Heinz

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