msnbc Live is an American

United States

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 news

News

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 / talk

Talk show

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 television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 program on MSNBC

MSNBC

MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

 hosted by Thomas Roberts

Thomas Roberts (news anchor)

Thomas Roberts is an American journalist who, since April 2010, has served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel.-Early life and education:...

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Focusing on live

Live television

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 news coverage, the program also consists of guest analysis and interviews around the stories of the day, in addition to feature-like stories, in-depth special reports, and The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel

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 forecasts.

The program airs weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET

Eastern Time Zone

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History

"MSNBC Live" was the name of several hours of straight news programming on the network (both weekdays and weekends), similar to dayside programming on other cable news channels. Beginning in 2009, MSNBC began to fill in these hours with branded programming during dayside hours. The 11 a.m. program is currently the only hour on the network that still carries the "Live" branding.

Anchors/Contributors

• Thomas Roberts
  Thomas Roberts (news anchor)
  Thomas Roberts is an American journalist who, since April 2010, has served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Weekdays 11am ET Anchor
• Jeff Rossen
  Jeff Rossen
  Jeff Rossen is an American television journalist who is currently employed by NBC News. He joined the network in September 2008. Rossen contributes to all NBC News programs and platforms, including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," and "TODAY." Rossen also fills in at the anchor desk for...
  
   – Contributing Anchor and NBC News correspondent
• Alex Witt
  Alex Witt
  Alex Witt is an anchor for MSNBC. She joined the network in January 1999.-Professional:Alex Witt serves as anchor for "Weekends with Alex Witt" and contributing anchor for msnbc Live. Before joining MSNBC, Witt was a reporter at KCBA from 1990–1992 and WNYW-TV from 1996–1998...
  
   – Contributing Anchor
• Craig Melvin
  Craig Melvin
  Craig Delano Melvin is an American journalist, who works for MSNBC currently as an anchor, and was formerly with WRC-TV in Washington DC.-Personal life:...
  
   - Contributing Anchor

International broadcasts

msnbc and NBC News programming is shown for several hours a day on the 24 hour news network Orbit News

Orbit News

OSN News is a 24 hour satellite and cable channel offering exclusively American news programming from ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC to U.S. expats and other viewers abroad, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries...

in Europe and the Middle East. This includes msnbc Live and several other msnbc shows.