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 being renamed after parent company Comcast spins the cable news channel off into a separate corporate entity later this year. The left-leaning channel will be known as MS NOW once it becomes part of Versant, a new company, and is no longer associated with NBC News, staffers were told Monday.

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 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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The progressive cable news network MSNBC will formally change its name later this year to MS Now, standing for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. The change is part of a corporate transformation as the network breaks off from other parts of the NBCUniversal family,

(Reuters) -Cable news channel MSNBC will rebrand as My Source News Opinion World, or MS NOW, ahead of the planned spinoff of the bulk of parent Comcast's NBCUniversal cable networks later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.