The nightly freakout is over. After almost five years, Joy Reid’s second MSNBC show The Reidout has been canceled. New MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler is making moves, and it’s also expected that Alex Wagner’s show will not return after Rachel Maddow occupied her old timeslot for the first 100 days of Trump.
The final ranty Reidout will be sometime this week. Reid’s show will be replaced with a weeknight version of The Weekend, hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia “Gold Bars” Menendez, and Michael Steele.
Variety reports Kutler helped create that show for early Saturday and Sunday mornings. In its first year on air, the program has seen audience for its time slot improve noticeably.
MSNBC is projected to shed approximately 10.5% of its subscribers between the end of 2023 and the end of 2025, according to estimates from Kagan, a market-research firm….
