MSNBC Has New Ideas for Joy Reid’s Old Weekend Anchor Slot

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe NFL’s two big TV services are back with satellite-distributor Dish just in time for the football league’s next season to kick off.NFL Network and NFL RedZone went dark on Dish in mid-June after the two sides failed to come to terms on a new contract.

It’s impossible to watch Haley Lu Richardson and not see that she’s a star in the making. She just has that “it factor” about her.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC’s weekend viewers can bid farewell to many prime-time repeats of Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes.The NBCUniversal-owned cable-news outlet will on September 19 launch two new programs for weekend evenings, and add another anchor to its weekend afternoon coverage. Alicia Menendez, who joined the network in late 2019, will debut “American Voices” on Saturdays and Sundays between 6 p.m.

Ted Johnson MSNBC is adding new shows to its weekend lineup, with Alicia Menendez and Joshua Johnson set to anchor evening shows as part of an effort to feature more breaking news coverage.The news network also is bringing back its early morning weekday show, Way Too Early, with Katie Hunt anchoring.

It has been 15 years since Oscar-winning writing duo Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, of Brokeback Mountain fame, have seen one of their screenplays made into a movie. That stat changes Sept.

animals. Unlike a lot of young people, she shares it with one of the planet's most cuddly — koalas.“It’s hard to explain,” she says from her home in Australia.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine kicked off the weekend in the most heart-melting way imaginable – Little Oscar had his fringe pinned back out of his eyes as he zoomed back and forth – Needless to say, the doting dad's fans were obsessed with the footage, and couldn't help but gush over adorable Oscar in the comment section of Gordon's post."Vroom vroom Oscar, beep beep out of the way!" another added."Driving on the wrong side of the carpet there!" a third hilariously wrote.It's not the

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne of the advocacy organizations calling for MSNBC anchor Joy Reid to apologize for comments she made about Muslims in her broadcast earlier this week said it was disappointed by the host’s handling of the situation, leaving open a controversy in Reid’s early tenure on the cable-news outlet’s weekday schedule.On Monday, Reid compared President Trump’s recent rhetoric around protesting to the efforts of radical Muslims to galvanize extremism.

Also Read: CAIR Thanks NBC News for Meeting, Calls on Joy Reid to Apologize for 'Muslims' CommentThe question led figures like Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, as well as groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to call on Reid to apologize for her comment, which they described as hurtful and Islamophobic.

“Thank you @NBC for meeting to discuss our concerns about @JoyAnnReid‘s inaccurate, offensive remarks,” tweeted the council.The tweet went on, “We appreciate your pledge to avoid Islamophobia in all forms. As we discussed, Ms.

Ted Johnson MSNBC host Joy Reid said that she plans to address the anger over comments she made earlier this week that made comparisons to radicalized Muslims and extreme supporters of President Donald Trump.“There’s been some thoughtful commentary but also some willful distortion of the points I tried to make yesterday.

Like Fredo at Fake News @CNN, the very untalented Joy Reid should be fired for this horrible use of the words ‘Muslim Terrorists’. Such xenophobia and racism on MSDNC.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMSNBC dishes up dozens of short news segments to its viewers over the course of a single day. Now the network may have a chance to go long.The cable-news outlet will air “The Way I See It,” a documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza (above, pictured), on Friday, October 9 at 10 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBrian Lesser is back to help advertising, media and entertainment companies – among others – try to gain  control of the reams of consumer data quickly being generated by Hollywood’s streaming wars.Lesser stepped away from leading AT&T’s Xandr just short of six months ago, as the telecom giant decided to combine the ad-tech unit with its large WarnerMedia entertainment operation.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDavid Ushery, a veteran of WNBC who has worked as an anchor on the station’s news programs for years, has been given a new role – co-anchoring at 4 p.m. and the economically critical 11 p.m.

Reading & Leeds celebrations this weekend.Classic festival sets from Billie Eilish, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and more will be aired on iPlayer to mark what would’ve been the 2020 edition of the August bank holiday festivals.Reading & Leeds 2020 was officially cancelled in May due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, and the new BBC virtual alternative set for this weekend mirrors The Glastonbury Experience, which saw legendary past performances aired all weekend on what would’ve been

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFootball fans are about to get a bird’s-eye view of gridiron proceedings when they tune in to NBC.The network plans to offer stunning overhead shots thanks to the use of a C360 camera that will be stationed on the bottom of the event’s SkyCam and can provide zoom-in shots of specific players as well as wide looks of plays along the sidelines or views of players on the line of scrimmage.

Wigan will be removed from local lockdown measures which were implemented last month on Wednesday (August 26).

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe iHeartRadio Music Awards telecast, originally scheduled for March 29 on Fox then postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, has officially been canceled, but the winners will be revealed throughout Labor Day weekend on radio and social media.