MSNBC Isn’t Using Blue-State Chatter to Build a Daytime Nation
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A prominent TV reporter walks into a bar… A handful of the news anchors at MSNBC (yes, there are some left!) recently held a dinner to welcome Ana Cabrera, the former CNN journalist, to the network, where she has taken the reins of its 10 a.m.
hour. Chris Jansing and Katy Tur, familiar faces to MSNBC viewers, were holding court, but Andrea Mitchell, a legendary Washington correspondent who has anchored an early afternoon show on MSNBC since 2008, was missing, due to making an appearance at Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday. “I thought a 100th birthday party for somebody would end early,” Mitchell confesses. “But it didn’t.” Cabrera, Jansing, Tur, Mitchell have all found time to get together more frequently in recent weeks.
They, along with their colleague, José Díaz-Balart, are playing a more critical role at MSNBC — but not in hours when such significance might be expected.
On days when big events erupt, the network might group a few of them together, just as it does at night when Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Alex Wagner and Lawrence O’Donnell gather to hash out the news cycle.
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