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Related: About this forumMSNBC pays Maddow $30m year; weekday show to end in '22
Last weekend, news leaked that the iconic liberal TV host decided to sign a new contract with MSNBC after The Daily Beast first reported that she was considering leaving the nightly show she’s helmed for 13 years to start her own venture.
That deal will give Maddow, the highest-rated host on MSNBC, a jaw-dropping $30 million per year to keep her with the company through the 2024 election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
As part of the deal, Maddow’s long-running 9 p.m. nightly broadcast will end next year. Instead, after stepping back from The Rachel Maddow Show, she will host a weekly program set to air roughly 30 weeks out of the year.
The contours of the deal were reported in outlets including the Wall Street Journal and CNN, which first noted the end to Maddow’s famed show. But The Daily Beast has learned that NBCUniversal News Corp., the parent company of cable news network MSNBC, made some other massive concessions in a deal that will ultimately mean less Maddow airtime overall. The deal, insiders told The Daily Beast, effectively buys the network more time to figure out an eventual replacement for the multi-faceted role Maddow plays at MSNBC.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-massive-msnbc-deal-paying-rachel-maddow-to-work-less

Ilsa
(62,663 posts)If she is on tv weekly (almost only every other week). I don't see how this will be sustainable, but I suppose with her long term income, we are lucky to see her at all.
calguy
(5,884 posts)Not that I don't like her. It's that I have other shows before and after hers I'd rather watch.
JohnSJ
(98,281 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,931 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,527 posts)... I congratulate Rachel! I like to see her regularly, so that's appealing, to me. Not sure where this irregular series will fall... I guess we'll see when it starts. I'm more interested in who will be added to the nightly line-up.
JohnSJ
(98,281 posts)fills in for her old time slot, I suspect they will lose viewers in her old time slot, and for her weekly series, if it on the weekends, I just don't see that gaining traction either, but we will see what happens
I can definitely understand why she would want to get rid of her daily week day gig. That has really got to be wearing
Ilsa
(62,663 posts)Response to left-of-center2012 (Original post)
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mucifer
(25,091 posts)catbyte
(36,647 posts)I appreciate her thoroughness in investigating a story, but many times I find myself running out of patience with her long-winded explanations and lengthy story setups, thinking to myself, "Arrgh! Get to the point!" But that's more of a "me" problem than a Rachel Maddow problem.
think many people get frustrated with her long and winding way to get to the point of what she is saying or explaining. Like you it’s probably a me problem though.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Like you, I too found
"myself running out of patience with her long-winded explanations and lengthy story setups, thinking to myself, "Arrgh! Get to the point!"
Plus the dramatic eyerolling, head shakes, and facial expressions.
I guess she's news entertainment?
Just give me the news !
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)But like others have said, I haven’t been watching as much. Those long set-ups lose me most nights, especially the ones about Watergate. Been there, done that, sorry. I usually fall asleep before they end! I’ll miss her though. Wonder who will replace her.
Paladin
(29,964 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)It was the eyerolling, facial expressions, shaking her head.
ecstatic
(34,703 posts)I love the goofy expressions, etc. That said, I don't watch as much these days because I need to lower my anxiety and stress levels.