''Alex Witt Reports'' (formerly ''Weekends with Alex Witt'') is a news program on
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politic ...
anchored by
Alex Witt. The program airs in the morning and in the afternoon on both Saturdays and Sundays in the
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a sma ...
.
Witt previously anchored the weekend edition of ''
MSNBC Live''. When MSNBC announced that regular contributor
Chris Hayes
Christopher Loffredo Hayes (; born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, television news anchor, activist, and author. Hayes hosts '' All In with Chris Hayes'', a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also ...
would be hosting a new weekend talk show, she was given a branded program as part of the network's new weekend morning lineup.
''Weekends with Alex Witt'' and ''
Up with Chris Hayes'' debuted on September 17, 2011.
In a 2015 realignment of MSNBC's daytime lineup, ''Weekends'' was removed from the lineup, but Witt maintained her time slot under the ''MSNBC Live'' banner. The ''Weekends'' branding was later reinstated. In March 2021, it was announced that the program would be rebranded as ''Alex Witt Reports'', reintegrating it with the ''MSNBC Live'' programs under a new standard brand.
References
External links
Official site
2010s American television news shows
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
MSNBC original programming
English-language television shows
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