Joy Reid is leaving MSNBC as her evening show is canceled - the "jig" is up (pun intended)

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Joy Reid speaks during the during the TIME 100 Summit, April 23, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Updated 10:41 AM PST, February 24, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Joy Reid is leaving MSNBC, the network’s new president announced in a memo to staff on Monday, marking an end to the political analyst and anchor’s prime time news show.
Reid’s namesake show, “The ReidOut,” has been a fixture of MSNBC’s evening programming since 2020. In the hourlong newscast, held at 7 p.m. E.T., Reid conducts extensive interviews with politicians and other newsmakers.
“Joy Reid is leaving the network and we thank her for her countless contributions over the years,” MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler wrote Monday. ”Her work has been recognized with several esteemed honors, including most recently, the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News Series.”
In the coming weeks, Kulter added, rotating anchors will host Reid’s hour.
Current hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend” — Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez — will now move to weekdays at 7 p.m. to host a new ensemble news program, Kulter also noted in Monday’s memo.
News reports about MSNBC cancelling “The ReidOut” emerged online over the weekend. Prior to Kulter’s memo, Reid took to social media to thank those who she said had reached out to her with messages of support.

“I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out with kindness and encouragement, both personally and in these social media streets,” Reid wrote in a message posted to BlueSky and Instagram just after midnight. “So very proud of The Reidout @joy.msnbc.com team, who are truly family, and all of our supporters & friends. See you tomorrow night at 7, one more time.”

 

[Strix454]

They can now place her on whatever Island of Misfit Toys Don Lemon is on.

I think MSNBC as a whole is going to struggle to last much longer. It costs too much for too small an audience. What is left on there is mostly not much better than political streaming content.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Hahaha they aren't even going to let her do a farewell show? They originally were.

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

Hahaha they aren't even going to let her do a farewell show? They originally were.

watching all the Lefty propagandists hit the wall is the most fun I've had since Rhonda Rousey got her ass kicked by Holly Holm

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Oh no!

Anyway, nothing of value was lost.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

 

[Pentex]

>Loud-mouthed, arrogant, aggravating black woman loses her job for chronic underperformance.

And here I thought it was just Trump cutting them from the federal government.

 

[Salubrious]

They can now place her on whatever Island of Misfit Toys Don Lemon is on.

I think MSNBC as a whole is going to struggle to last much longer. It costs too much for too small an audience. What is left on there is mostly not much better than political streaming content.

At this point, MSNBC and CNN are completely dependent on how much the "powers that be" shall we say want to spend on the networks. I can't imagine that they have been independently profitable for quite some time.

Remember when CNN+ was supposed to be a thing and it got cancelled before it got started?

 

[Bland Crumbs]

You are a worthless, brainless, tactless, thoughtless, jobless, hairless racist bitch. You should be sealed in a vault with nuclear waste.

 

[poopshoes]

I thought this was the bitch from the view so I was excited but it's still good to hear another loud mouth black cunt propped up completely by DEI bullshit got shitcanned now that the tides are turning on all these losers. Love to see the mainstream media continue to collapse.

 

[dj0449674]

 

[Wendy Wheelchair]

Look how fucked that hairline is. Who would've thought gluing shit to your scalp constantly would lead to hair loss!!!!

They can now place her on whatever Island of Misfit Toys Don Lemon is on.

I think MSNBC as a whole is going to struggle to last much longer. It costs too much for too small an audience. What is left on there is mostly not much better than political streaming content.

I was genuinely shocked at how low their viewership was. Totally shows these companies are run by political hacks who put ideology over actually making money.

 

[Strix454]

At this point, MSNBC and CNN are completely dependent on how much the "powers that be" shall we say want to spend on the networks. I can't imagine that they have been independently profitable for quite some time.

Remember when CNN+ was supposed to be a thing and it got cancelled before it got started?

Comcast/NBC Universal is going to spin off a set of its "loser" cable channels into a separate company. MSNBC is on the list of cable channels they are getting rid of. The spin-off with seperate MSNBC from the resources of NBC news and the financial resources of Comcast/NBC Universal. CNN is still under the ownership of Warner/Discovery who have shown an intent to continue supporting it.

After the spin-off, the new company will have very little money to subsidize MSNBC with. The current MSNBC budget seems unsustainable with current viewership and the spin-off.

CNN+ bombed at launch and was launched within days of Discovery buying the former warner assets. The discovery people were looking for someone to make an example of after the warner purchase and CNN+ was an easy target at the time.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Once again: Reid, out.

 

[Big moth tiddies]

Remember when CNN+ was supposed to be a thing and it got cancelled before it got started?

They're doing it again, because retards never seem to learn.

 

[kcbbq]

MSNBC is on the list of cable channels they are getting rid of.

In the future all restaurants will be Fox News Taco Bell

 

[TowinKarz]

Comcast/NBC Universal is going to spin off a set of its "loser" cable channels into a separate company. MSNBC is on the list of cable channels they are getting rid of. The spin-off with seperate MSNBC from the resources of NBC news and the financial resources of Comcast/NBC Universal. CNN is still under the ownership of Warner/Discovery who have shown an intent to continue supporting it.

After the spin-off, the new company will have very little money to subsidize MSNBC with. The current MSNBC budget seems unsustainable with current viewership and the spin-off.

CNN+ bombed at launch and was launched within days of Discovery buying the former warner assets. The discovery people were looking for someone to make an example of after the warner purchase and CNN+ was an easy target at the time.

There had to be some shady USAID-like funding going on behind the scenes for ALL of these shows and networks - the numbers of actual viewers for a lot of them don't crack a million, nationwide. Some like Reid's? Wouldn't fill a football stadium, again, in the entire country.

The only way they can possibly be profitable is if airing them acts as a loss leader that satisfies someone (other than the viewing public's) desires or agenda.

 

[kcbbq]

There had to be some shady USAID-like funding going on behind the scenes for ALL of these shows and networks - the numbers of actual viewers for a lot of them don't crack a million, nationwide. Some like Reid's? Wouldn't fill a football stadium, again, in the entire country.

The only way they can possibly be profitable is if airing them acts as a loss leader that satisfies someone (other than the viewing public's) desires or agenda.

With how desperately a lot of people are for CBS to settle Trump's $20 billion lawsuit right now you may be on to something.

 

[Swingletonthesimpleton]

Not just her.

The nigger newscaster Lester holt is leaving too.

We're truly heading for wonderous times gents. Wonderous times indeed

 

[Strix454]

The only way they can possibly be profitable is if airing them acts as a loss leader that satisfies someone (other than the viewing public's) desires or agenda.

That is exactly how it worked for years. CNN was funded by Time-Warner as a political weapon rather than a business. MSNBC was funded by a series of companies for similar purposes. Its worth remembering what the "MS" in MSNBC originally stood for. It stood for Microsoft. MSNBC was created originally in part as a corporate weapon to give Microsoft more leverage in its anti-trust disputes with the US government.