Cable news channel MSNBC will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, according to internal memos seen by Reuters today, as parent Comcast presses ahead with the planned separation of many NBCUniversal cable networks later this year.

MSNBC is reportedly set to change its name to "My Source News Opinion World," The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday as part of Comcast's spin off from NBC Universal.

The change, announced on Monday, comes as MSNBC has been building its own news division, as NBC News will no longer be a sister outlet following the spinoff. MSNBC and other Comcast cable networks will be part of a separate company, Versant, led by Mark Lazarus.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to Comcast on Tuesday announcing a probe of the company's relations with NBC affiliates.

The upcoming spinoff of communications giant Comcast’s ($CMCSA) linear television arm, which will form a new operation called Versant, will not

News network MSNBC will alter its name to My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, as part of its corporate separation from Comcast’s (CMCSK) (CMCSA) NBC, the Associated Press’ David Bauder reports. The network has been creating its own separate news ...

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