MSNBC has appointed Rebecca Kutler to the president of the left-leaning network, and has removed the interim tag following the exit of Rashida Jones last month, the company said.
Kutler will be spinoff from Comcast to be spinoff from other cable channels from Comcast in transactions scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
One of Kutler's biggest challenges is building news gathering capabilities for MSNBC, as once the spinoff is complete it will no longer be a sister entity to NBC News.
Mark Lazarus, who heads a new company called Spinco, praised Kutler in a note to employees on Wednesday.
“Since joining the network, Rebecca has played a pivotal role in developing many of the network's recent programs, driving MSNBC's non-linear development and strategic investment, and has led to new innovative audience-centric features. We are introducing products,” he wrote.
Kutler worked for CNN for 12 years in 2022 while at Jeff Zucker before joining MSNBC in 2022. There, he was promoted from executive producer to senior vice president on shows such as “Inside Politics with John King.”
She was tapped as CNN+ programming chief in 2022 before the network pulled the streaming service plug.
“My goal for the next few years is to build on that success. This will be a really exciting time, especially next year, but it will also be a rewarding time. We as leaders. We think it's important to be honest about that and the challenges ahead. Our work is difficult on normal days, and these are not normal times,” Ketner told staff on Wednesday. He spoke. Hollywood Reporter.
Jones left MSNBC after three years of helm.
