MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler informed staff via internal memo that the network would implement the name change in about two weeks, Mediaite reported. The memo indicates that the split is moving full speed ahead for MSNBC and the other former NBC channels.

Industry observers are increasingly asking whether the cable news operation now known as MS Now and the remaining NBC News division could eventually reunite once NBCUniversal completes its separation from Comcast.

Joy-Ann Reid is speaking out about what she believes led to her abrupt and unexpected firing from MSNBC. Reid said her firing came as a shock, particularly because MSNBC had renewed her contract just weeks earlier,