NBC Forces MSNBC to Change Its Name
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When MSNBC spins off from NBCUniversal (NBCU) by the end of its year to become an independent company, it will have a new name and logo. MSNBC will become My Source News Opinion World (MS NOW), and the multicolored Peacock logo MSNBC now borrows from its outgoing parent company will be replaced with a new red, white, and blue mark.
MSNBC is changing its name to MS NOW (short for My Source for News Opinion and the World). MSNBC will have a new name as it seeks to carve out an identity that will have it competing for scoops and news with current corporate sibling NBC News following the spin-off of the bulk… pic.twitter.com/3QOvpP8ZBL
In addition to MS NOW, USA Network and Golf Channel will merge into a new USA Sports brand and CNBC will change its logo but retain its name
The new name and logo, which were brutally mocked online, are part of Comcast’s $7 billion spinoff of cable assets.
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ADWEEK on MSNMSNBC Rebranding to MS NOW Amid NBCUniversal Split
So long, MSNBC, hello MS NOW. In what is the clearest indication of a separation between NBCUniversal and the soon-to-be-spun-off cable networks empire forming Versant, cable news network MSNBC will be dropping the NBC in its name and will be rebranded to My Source News Opinion World or MS NOW.
Pete Davidson is reflecting on the time he was in “trouble” with NBCUniversal over the cancellation of his semi-autobiographical dramedy Bupkis on Peacock. In a sprawling interview conducted recently with The Breakfast Club,
Cable news channel MSNBC is going to rebrand as My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, according to a new report from the New York Times. The change is happening because Comcast’s NBCUniversal is spinning off many of its cable TV assets into a new company called Versant, severing ties with the “NBC” part of MSNBC.