Experts address MSNBC's 'unusual' programming strategy giving newcomer host Jen Psaki a primetime slot on Mondays, replacing network veteran Chris Hayes.
last week with its announcement that its newest host, former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, is already getting promoted by expanding her role beyond Sunday afternoons and into primetime on Mondays.
"Viewers want consistency," Concha said."And for MSNBC to offer these half-baked lineups doesn't allow for that." "We're heading into primetime election season, and we're heading into the Trump trials and all that stuff is going to be red meat for the progressives who watch MSNBC," McCall said."And [they'll] be happy to see back-to-back high personality women beating up on Trump, for example, and promoting Democratic causes." a bidding war
"Inside with Jen Psaki," which launched in March of this year, quickly became MSNBC's highest-rated Sunday program, averaging roughly 840,000 viewers in recent months. But her takeover on Monday could spell trouble for Hayes. Concha offered a similar sentiment, saying Hayes as an MSNBC veteran should be"insulted" that management is pulling one of his nights and giving it to someone who joined the network's programming"a few months ago."
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