November 7 was a particularly busy Monday at “The View.” The long-running ABC talk series was prepping the show for the day before the midterm elections — a nail-biting event that ended up with the Democrats retaining control of the Senate and Republicans taking the House. To bolster the show’s panel, led by moderator Whoopi Goldberg, Nicolle Wallace was joining as a guest to discuss a new series she hosts for Peacock surrounding mental health awareness. As a former member of...
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Jones has made her mark at MSNBC since taking over the top slot in February 2021. In recent months, the veteran NBC News executive shuffled a number of the cabler’s weekend programming blocks in a clear effort to test out new opinion personalities for the
liberal-leaning channel, moved Stephanie Ruhle to Brian Williams’ 11 p.m. slot and expanded “Morning Joe” to a fourth hour. All eyes were on her choice of Alex Wagner to take up the key 9 p.m. slot Tuesday through Friday, previously and ceremoniously led by Rachel Maddow. With the breaking-news streamer NBC News Now, Jones is steering MSNBC deeper into “perspective” programming, which includes both analysis and opinion in its streaming and linear efforts.