Comcast’s announcement that it was spinning off several cable networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, has sent shockwaves through the media world.
There’s a chance that wherever MSNBC lands, it will lose its name and probably most of its talent. And that has MSNBC staffers panicking. “People don’t really know what’s going on,” said one MSNBC insider. “They had the election, holidays are coming up. People are tired and just trying to get through.”
MSNBC, along with CNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and the Golf Channel, will apparently be part of a new company called SpinCo. But most of the future of the cable news network is unknowable as Comcast may seek other partners in the spinoff project, which will happen sometime next year.
“We could all be fired a year from now,” said “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough. “When this happens, you never know what’s going to happen,” he said,
“People are anxious but I’m not sure they’re more anxiety-ridden than they were five minutes before this announcement,” an MSNBC employee told the New York Post. “The business is not doing well.”
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