Representing MSNBC Dwell on the bottom for the ultimate discussion board are hosts Jonathan Capehart, Jen Psaki, and Symone Sanders-Townsend. They’ll participate in a sequence of moderated discussions with candidates alongside Russert and Mo Elleithee, the institute’s government director.
“What the way forward for the Democratic Occasion appears like is without doubt one of the nice questions in politics as we speak, so internet hosting this discussion board and giving our college students the prospect to listen to from—and instantly query—those that search to guide the DNC was a no brainer,” Elleithee stated in an announcement. “We’re thrilled to as soon as once more co-host with MSNBC to take this dialog to a broader viewers.”
MSNBC Dwell is coming off of a busy 2024 that noticed it broaden its choices from an invite-only Washington, D.C. occasion final March to a Comedian-Con like takeover over of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in September. TVNewser was in the home for the afternoon portion of the latter occasion—formally titled MSNBC Dwell: Democracy 2024—and watched 4,000 of the community’s most devoted followers cheer, applaud, and snap selfies with their favourite hosts, together with Pleasure Reid and Alex Wagner.
Democracy 2024 notably wasn’t livestreamed on YouTube, though parts of the occasion have been compiled right into a two-hour recap program that aired on the community on Sept. 14. Utilizing that platform to as its hub for the DNC discussion board signifies how MSNBC is increasing its digital footprint as a part of the information trade’s bigger shift away from linear programming.
MSNBC estimates that it attracted 3.1 billion viewers to its YouTube channel in 2024, making it the yr’s most-watched information outlet on the platform. The community additionally stories six billion video views throughout its varied social media accounts, together with Instagram, the nearly-imperiled TikTok, and X, previously Twitter. 12 months-to-year, MSNBC estimates a +32% spike in its YouTube viewers, and a +109% rise in its social video views.
That digital efficiency—and the expansion of the MSNBC Dwell model—balances MSNBC’s current linear rankings struggles following Donald Trump‘s victory within the presidential election and return to the Oval Workplace. This yr, the community additionally faces the departure of its well-liked president, Rashida Jones, and an impending cut up from the NBCUniversal Information Group to hitch SpinCo alongside a lot of NBCUniversal’s different cable property, together with CNBC.
