NEW YORK — MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow returned to the air Monday with some dangerous information for her followers: Beginning subsequent month, she will probably be doing her prime-time present solely as soon as per week.
After working her customary 5 nights per week for the remainder of April, Maddow stated, she is going to work on Monday nights solely beginning in Could. The community stated it should rotate visitor hosts the opposite 4 weeknights on a present known as “MSNBC Prime.”
“For giant information occasions, for issues just like the leadup to the election, I’ll in fact be right here greater than that, however that’s the basic plan,” Maddow stated on her present Monday.
The cable information community’s hottest character had been on hiatus for the previous two months, engaged on a brand new podcast and a film adaptation of her e book “Bag Man.” She stated the weekly schedule will give her “extra time to work on a few of this different stuff I’ve acquired cooking for MSNBC and NBC.”
She heaped reward on Ali Velshi, who had crammed in regularly for her whereas she was away, calling him a “prince amongst males.”
But MSNBC‘s rankings in her time slot tumbled in her absence, even with protection of a gripping information occasion, the Ukraine conflict. MSNBC isn’t alone in questions on its 9 p.m. Jap hour: CNN hasn’t named a full-time alternative for its former rankings chief, Chris Cuomo, since he was fired in December.
The plan leaves MSNBC executives in a clumsy spot. Whereas it has been reported that MSNBC signed a brand new contract with Maddow that provides her extra flexibility, executives haven’t publicly addressed that deal, or Maddow‘s announcement Monday. It appears, not less than in the intervening time, the community will probably be pleased to get as a lot as it may well from Maddow and depart the sunshine on if she sometime decides to do extra.
Maddow stated she had initially thought she would possibly want one other hiatus from her present this 12 months however has decided that she received’t.
