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MS NOW
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American television news channel
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Broadcast area
- United States and Canada
- Headquarters
- 229 West 43rd Street New York, New York
- Language
- English
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
- Owner
- Versant
- Sister channels
- CNBC CNBC World E! Golf Channel Oxygen USA Network
- Launched
- July 15, 1996 ; 29 years ago ( 1996-07-15 ) (as MSNBC) November 15, 2025 ; 6 months ago ( 2025-11-15 ) (as MS NOW)
- Replaced
- America's Talking (1994–1996) MSNBC Canada (in Canada)
- Former names
- MSNBC (1996–2025)
- Website
- www .ms .now
- Service s
- DirecTV Stream , Hulu + Live TV , Sling TV , YouTube TV
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- news website
- Official name
- MS NOW
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New York City
- Headquarters
- Times Square
- Owned by
- Versant
- Official website
- MS.now
- Image
- MSNBC NYC Studio 01.jpg
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- catchphrase
- This Is Who We Are
- inception
- 1996-07-15
- topic's main category
- Category:MS NOW
- language used
- English language
- operating area
- United States
- social media followers
- 9360000
- official shop URL
- msnbcstore.com
- place of publication
- New York City
- Commons category
- MS NOW
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Encyclopedic overview
MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) is an American cable news channel. Owned by Versant, the channel primarily broadcasts rolling news coverage and political commentary. Its studios are located in Versant's world headquarters at 229 West 43rd Street in New York City. It also maintains a bureau in Washington, D.C., co-located with that of former parent division NBC News, while technical operations are handled from CNBC's studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
The channel was established in 1996 as MSNBC, a joint venture between NBC News and Microsoft (with its name being a portmanteau of "MSN" and "NBC") that encompassed the cable channel and the news portal MSNBC.com. Microsoft divested its stake in the TV channel in 2005, followed by the website in 2012; the website was subsequently rebranded as NBCNews.com, and MSNBC.com was later relaunched to focus on editorial content from the network's personalities and programming.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MS NOW” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.