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by wlindley 1459 days ago
Never had cable but I still figure MSNBC is part of this long-abandoned system and wonder why it's still on the air, some kind of zombie?
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speed_spread 1459 days ago
Yeah, it was the result of a deal intended to provide NBC content on MSN, giving it news and stuff. As MSN failed, its most successful content got turned into websites.
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dcist 1459 days ago
The MSNBC website back in the 90s was actually pretty great. It had a menu system that would update with live headlines. It was really impressive (to me, at least) back then.

I think MSNBC began as a joint effort between Microsoft and GE, but Microsoft sold its stake a long time ago at this point. It's bizarre that MSNBC has kept the name, but I guess it has branding value at this point.

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