MSNBC

MSNBC is one of the leading 24-hour cable news channel in Canada and the United States. The full name of MSNBC is a combination of Microsoft Network and NBC. MSNBC.com is a separate company, which is the news website for the family of NBC News, featuring original videos and stories along with contents from NBC News and partners like Newsweek, The New York Times and The Washington Post. In the year 1996, two partnerships with the name MSNBC was founded by Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit, presently it is the NBC Universal. Although NBC and Microsoft shared the operations of MSNBC cable at its establishing, but it was announced on December, 2005 that NBC Universal is going to purchase a majority share in the television network which left Microsoft only with 18%. The two companies, Microsoft and General Electric’s NBC unit, remained as 50-50 partners in MSNBC.com. Both MSNBC and its sister channel CNBC shares the rainbow peacock logo.

Broadcasts of MSNBC

MSNBC is shown only in Canada, the United States and some parts of Latin America. In Asia, Europe and Africa, MSNBC is not broadcasted on a channel with its own right. Nevertheless, MSNBC is broadcasted for a few hours in Middle East and Europe on the 24 hour news network Orbit News. The breaking news of MSNBC is also occasionally shown on sister network CNBC in Europe. In Turkey, MSNBC is broadcasted as NTV-MSNBC, the news network of the Turkish broadcaster NTV Turkey. English content on NTV-MSNBC is translated to Turkish.

In the United Kingdom, during the important US breaking news, the presently closed ITV News Channel sometimes showed MSNBC along with some of its reports appearing in the ITV News bulletins. For a short time, a Canadian version of MSNBC was developed in the year 2001, nevertheless, it was discounted in 2004 and he American station started airing in Canada.

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