Beginning on June 29, 2009, MSNBC officially launched a new graphic scheme co-created by Adam Gault Studios and Carlo Vega, whereby a newly redesigned MSNBC logo, current series title, time, stocks number and ( when necessary ) " live " bug were moved to the top of the screen, leaving the lower thirds to be used by the news ticker, story title and short summary, the last of which is replaced frequently by the name of the guest or correspondent currently being shown.

For a short time in 2009 from the debut, MSNBC HD daytime included a widget on the right side of the screen which served as a secondary news ticker displaying the weather and news headlines as well as a blue bar which showed more stocks and business news graphics, but both features were eventually dropped in favor of full video encompassing both sides of the screen ; the widget reflected a similar widget which appears on CNBC HD for the display of a stocks graph chart ( and which has been retained to the present day ).

Needing a way to provide a continuous stream of vital but repetitive emergency information to viewers, Fox News Channel placed a ticker on-screen at 10: 49 a. m. CNN launched its own ticker at 11: 11 a. m., and MSNBC started one at approximately 2: 00 p. m.

MSNBC, the cable counterpart of NBC News, was the last cable news network to debut a ticker on 9 / 11, at 2: 00 p. m. Like Fox News and CNN, MSNBC's ticker had yellow letters, but the ticker's band was slightly transparent.

The ticker is also absent during broadcasts of MSNBC Documentaries, and during the daytime shows that show a " rundown banner " ( The Daily Rundown and The Dylan Ratigan Show ).

The ticker was changed on June 29, 2009 to a flipper-style ticker similar to that of CNN, coinciding with the beginning of high-definition broadcasts on MSNBC.

CNBC, a business news network operated by NBC and MSNBC parent company General Electric, uses a special ticker to monitor the values of securities and indexes on the stock market.

Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (; born August 20, 1946 ) is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U. S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.

An online news story on MSNBC. com by Marilynn Marchione of the Associated Press, released on Saturday, May 5, 2012, discussed the risk of birth defects in ICSI versus natural conception or normal IVF ; the following is a directly quoted segment of that release:

MSNBC ( stylized as msnbc ) is a cable news and information channel based in the United States available in the US, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and Canada.

MSNBC and msnbc. com were founded in 1996 as partnerships of Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, which is now NBCUniversal.

Gradually MSNBC began to put more emphasis on politics The Project for Excellence in Journalism found in 2007 after a seven year survey of cable channels that " MSNBC is moving to make politics a brand, with a large dose of opinion and personality.

" Addressing MSNBC ' S low ratings, Kaplan quoted CNN co-founder Reese Schonfeld, who said that " verybody compares MSNBC to Fox and CNN — when its real competition is Headline News ".

" In the column Kaplan remarked that " the running joke in TV news is Fox and CNN are news channels with websites, but MSNBC is a website with a cable channel ".

Oversight of MSNBC is now provided by Phil Griffin, a senior vice president at NBC.

MSNBC is also expected to expand West Coast operations, as the channel recently announced new studios near the Universal Studios lot, which will assemble all NBC West Coast news operations in one building.

A New York Times article quotes Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc. com, a separate company, as saying, “ Both strategies are fine, but naming them the same thing is brand insanity .” As a result, msnbc. com is considering changing its name to prevent confusion with the television network, MSNBC.

MSNBC HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of MSNBC that launched on June 29, 2009.

MSNBC is shown only in the United States, Canada, South Africa, parts of Latin America, and parts of Northern Africa ( see below ).

In Southern Africa, MSNBC is distributed free-to-air on satellite on Free2View TV as MSNBC Africa, a joint venture between Great Media Limited and MSNBC.

In Asia and Europe, MSNBC is not shown on a channel of its own.

This never happened ; however, MSNBC is shown for a few hours a day on the 24 hour news network OSN News in Europe and the Middle East.

OSN News is a network of three 24 hour satellite and cable channels offering exclusively American news programming from ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC to U. S. expats and other viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries.

The move to create a new program for the channel was widely seen as a smart ratings move, where beforehand, MSNBC lagged behind in coveted primetime ratings.

Lisa recently served as a Senior Advisor to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and was frequently seen on CNN, MSNBC, and other television networks providing analysis on the 2008 presidential race.

In 1996, Applegate was the first face seen on MSNBC at its launch.

Since December 2009, she has been seen anchoring " Early Today " for NBC network and appears on MSNBC in " First Look " and in prime time reading the news.

In 2008 the group performed on MSNBC during coverage of the vice presidential debate with specially written songs about Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

* In 2009, MSNBC had an online blog project entitled the " Elkhart Project " which consists of their reporters blogging about life in small-town America during the recession.

" The move to taped programming during 10 and 11 p. m. was likely a result of the success that MSNBC saw with their Friday " experiment " of replacing all primetime programming with taped specials.

When MSNBC started in 1996 they announced plans to start broadcasting in Europe during 1997.

He occasionally filled in on the nightly show Scarborough Country during its run on MSNBC.

Franklin Graham during an interview on MSNBC that questioned whether President Obama is a Christian.

And, a week before the 2008 general election presidential candidate Barack Obama bought a 30 minute slot at 8 PM ET / PT during primetime on seven major networks ( NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox, BET, TV One and Univision ( with Spanish subtitles )) to present a " closing argument " to his campaign.

He did gain entry to the Republican convention in New York, and even debated actor Ron Silver during the wrap-up on MSNBC.

In 2011, during the tsunami in Japan, Corwin was used as a geologist on MSNBC to help explain the tsunami.

Keith Olbermann had featured their track on MSNBC during his show Countdown as the presidential race was heating up.

On a few occasions, during the show's MSNBC run, the segment was either briefly suspended or renamed in response to concerns that it contributed to an atmosphere of political divisiveness.

The Dylan Ratigan Show, a television program on the news channel MSNBC, used the song as background music during a segment targeting " Facebook addiction ".

" Despite this, on March 21, 2005, during interviews about Schiavo on Fox News and MSNBC, Hammesfahr was billed as " nominated for the Nobel Prize " several times by hosts Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough.

After moving over to CNBC during the rampdown of America's Talking, the show was renamed Hardball with Chris Matthews and eventually moved to MSNBC, where it still airs nightly at 5 p. m. and 7 p. m.

She previously served as the co-anchor of Equal Time, on CNBC and MSNBC, and during that time, also hosted a two-hour radio talk show.

Racial divisions persisted throughout the election ; wide margins of Black voters gave Obama an edge during the presidential primary, where 8 out of 10 African-Americans voted for him in the primaries, and an MSNBC poll showed that race was a key factor in whether a candidate was perceived as being ready for office.

His comments were broadcast on MSNBC during the intermission of a men's game.

Due to internal fighting among the staff at MSNBC, Gregory was appointed as anchor on MSNBC during the presidential debates and the 2008 election.

In 2008 Universal HD has aired US Olympic Trial events during or soon after their original airing on MSNBC and USA.

In 2000, Brzezinski began a short hiatus from CBS, during which she worked for rival MSNBC on the weekday afternoon show, Home Page, with co-anchors Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield.