Cable news network MS NOW shuffles schedule, moving Stephanie Ruhle and Alicia Menendez to daytime

NEW YORK (AP) — The cable news network MS NOW is shuffling its schedule, moving anchors Stephanie Ruhle and Alicia Menendez into the daytime hours and shaving an hour off “Morning Joe.”

Ruhle will anchor a two-hour daytime slot starting at 9 a.m. ET, while Menendez will start at noon, the network said on Wednesday. Ali Velshi will take over Ruhle’s current 11 p.m. show and Luke Russert will replace Menendez alongside Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele on “The Weeknight,” which airs at 7 p.m.

The “Morning Joe” crew will be on for three hours starting at 6 a.m., instead of four, with MS NOW saying it was the show’s choice to cut back.

Of the two current daytime anchors losing their jobs, Ana Cabrera is leaving the network and Chris Jansing will become MS NOW’s chief political reporter. The network still has to fill an 11 a.m. time slot before the changes take effect in June.

Jacob Soboroff will anchor two three-hour shifts on the weekend, the network’s first program to be based in Los Angeles.

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FILE – MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez poses as she arrives at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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