TVNewser’s A.J. Katz writes that Kate Snow will be leaving MSNBC dayside to do work for the mother ship network…
Kate Snow is leaving her MSNBC show for expanded duties at NBC News.
NBC News president Noah Oppenheim announced that in addition to anchoring Sunday Nightly News, Snow’s new 3-year deal will include reporting stories for NBC’s upcoming Sunday news magazine show, which will be hosted by NBC News newcomer Megyn Kelly. Snow will also report pieces for NBC Nightly News, Today and Dateline.
Snow was doing six day work weeks for months so something had to give.
MSNBC’s dayside lineup has been in turmoil for a while now, despite the election being over. 10am has no designated anchor and now neither does 3pm. In addition Craig Melvin only anchors 4 days a week because of his Saturday Today duties. The network has been double and sometimes triple shifting Katy Tur for completely inexplicable reasons.
Tur is so far an interesting case study in branding confusion. Her big claim to fame was working the campaign trail and reporting from the field. MSNBC has been going out of its way citing her remote reporting in its advertising.
And yet how is the network using her? As a news anchor. She built up her brand doing one thing…the network has been advertising her doing that one thing…and then it winds up having her doing something completely different from the brand that’s been cultivated. It’s bizarre. They should have given her a D.C. job.
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