Accuracy in Media

NBC News chairman Andrew Lack may be riding a wave of ratings success at both NBC News and MSNBC, but that doesn’t mean that he’s completely confident that all his moves will pay off for the network. Since Lack took over the networks two years ago, MSNBC has risen from a third-place also-ran to a […]

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnel’s contract is about to expire, and according to The Huffington Post, the network isn’t looking to keep the longtime host: “Four well-placed sources tell HuffPost that MSNBC has not been in contact with O’Donnell’s team of representatives to negotiate a new deal. The absence of active negotiations weeks before a contract […]

NBC News chairman Andy Lack said the network plans to make significant changes in how it covers future elections after the failure of state polls in the 2016 election. Lack made his remarks during an interview at the IESE Business School in New York on Wednesday: “We didn’t get this election right, news organizations, we […]

NBC News president Deborah Turness has been named the president of NBC News International, which is the network’s side of a new partnership with EuroNews, a pan-European satellite news service based in Lyon, France. Turness oversaw the firing of Meet the Press host David Gregory and the removal of Brian Williams as the Nightly News anchor after he […]

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack is unconcerned about disgraced former NBC Evening News anchor Brian Williams’ history of lying. He told The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple that it’s “ancient history to me.” Lack also thinks that Williams’ new program on MSNBC—”The 11th Hour with Brian Williams”—is “off to a nice start,” though the ratings tell a different […]

MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry have parted company after the race-baiting host fired off an angry email about her show being pre-empted over the last two weeks. Harris-Perry had apparently been complaining about the pre-emptions with MSNBC brass. But her refusal to appear on her show on Saturday, coupled with an email she sent to her […]

In a wide-ranging interview with The Daily Beast, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack admitted that MSNBC’s devotion to liberal programming was a failure, and that if the network hadn’t switched to covering more breaking news it “would have been clobbered.” “Had we not made this turn to breaking news with seriousness of purpose, in these […]

MSNBC, which has been struggling in the ratings for the last several years, announced today that starting in January they will air episodes of Bloomberg TV’s With All Due Respect. The show will continue to air in its 5 p.m. time slot on Bloomberg TV, and then will be repeated by MSNBC at 6 p.m. […]

According to Mediaite’s Joe Concha, NBC News president Andy Lack is asserting control and plans to make some major changes in MSNBC’s daytime programming. The goal is to try and stem the ratings slide the network has been experiencing for the last three years. MSNBC will cancel three programs, The Cycle, Now with Alex Wagner and The […]

ABC’s World News Tonight topped NBC’s Nightly News in the latest ratings, snapping the Peacock network’s 288 week win streak as the number one evening news broadcast. WNT won in both total viewers with 7.997 million to Nightly News’ 7.913 million, and in the 18-49 demo by a margin of 1.952 million to 1.791 million, […]