May 12, 2026
(NEW YORK – May 13, 2026) – MS NOW will debut its new weekday lineup on Monday, June 15. New titles joining the lineup include Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle, On the Line with Alicia Menendez, The Moment with Katy Tur, and The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi. In addition, Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele will be joined by new co-anchor Luke Russert on The Weeknight, while MS NOW will also launch Connect with Jacob Soboroff just days before, on Saturday, June 13.
MS NOW is home to more than 25 on-air anchors, dozens of Pulitzer, Murrow, Peabody, and Emmy Award-winning reporters, and airs more than 120 live news programs each week. MS NOW reaches more than 32 million Americans weekly on television and has one of the most engaged audiences across all of television, with the average viewer watching more than nine hours each week, more than any broadcast network. In April, MS NOW averaged more than one million total viewers across weekday live programming—up 20% year-over-year—and more than 1.5 million total viewers in weekday primetime. The network has also seen rapid and sustained success across digital, social, and audio, with nearly eight billion views across YouTube and TikTok combined and over 140 million audio downloads in 2025.
These programming changes also build on the organization’s continued success ahead of a consequential midterm election season, and are a part of VERSANT’s continued investment in the network’s original programming, premium content, and non-linear offerings.
Stephanie Ruhle will launch a new weekday morning show, Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle, airing from 9 to 11 a.m. ET Monday through Friday, bringing her loyal late-night viewers to the morning and building on the ratings growth of her 11 p.m. audience. Helmed by Ruhle, a longtime anchor and senior business analyst, the new morning program will add to MS NOW’s morning momentum with Morning Joe and will combine her real-world Wall Street experience and signature energy to set the agenda for viewers as the day begins. Money, Power, Politics will combine The 11th Hour’s hard-hitting news coverage along with a new take on the show’s signature Nightcap round table, along with marquee guests and thoughtful analysis to break down for audiences what’s happening every day and why it matters. Patrick McMenamin will serve as the show’s executive producer, and it will be based in New York.
Alicia Menendez will lead On the Line with Alicia Menendez, airing weekdays from 12 to 2 p.m. ET. A tenured anchor known for her impactful storytelling, Menendez has interviewed countless leading voices in American politics and society, including bipartisan lawmakers, policy experts, and cultural figures. On the Line will serve as a go-to source for MS NOW’s audience during the day for the latest on the stories they care about most, including the happenings in Washington and around the country ahead of the upcoming midterm election season, focusing on the stakes, not the odds, of preserving American democracy. Based in New York, Marti Hause will serve as the program’s executive producer.
Katy Tur will anchor The Moment with Katy Tur, airing weekdays from 2 to 4 p.m. ET. Tur has been a fixture of MS NOW since 2017, anchoring across the network's programming through some of the most consequential moments in modern American history, including the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Los Angeles wildfires, wars in the Middle East, and more, interviewing newsmakers including political candidates, cabinet officials, foreign leaders, and more. An award-winning journalist, she has reported on several presidential and midterm election cycles, including her singular coverage starting from the first day of President Trump’s 2016 campaign. The show is based in New York, and Aaron Volkman will continue to serve as executive producer.
Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele will be joined by Luke Russert as the newest co-anchor of The Weeknight, weekdays at 7 p.m. ET. A former award-winning Capitol Hill reporter and bestselling author, Russert will bring his deep Washington knowledge to the roundtable trio, alongside Sanders Townsend and Steele, two of the most trusted voices on Democratic and Republican politics and campaigns across the country. Russert’s arrival builds on the momentum and success of The Weeknight, which has seen sustained double-digital growth since launch. In April, The Weeknight averaged 1.2 million total viewers and has grown its audience in the demo by 138% since launch. Kyle Griffin is the executive producer of The Weeknight, which is based in Washington, D.C.
Veteran MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi will anchor The 11th Hour with Ali Velshi weekdays at 11 p.m. ET. Velshi has covered some of the most important political and global stories of recent times, including U.S. midterm and presidential elections for the network since 2016. He will also continue in his role as chief data reporter for the network, providing real-time polling and results on election nights. He is known for his immersive on-the-ground reporting style, having reported in Ukraine, throughout the Middle East, and across America, and will bring his field reporting expertise to MS NOW’s weekday audience. Rebekah Dryden will serve as the show’s executive producer, and it will be based in New York.
Connect with Jacob Soboroff will debut on Saturday, June 13, airing from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET Saturdays and Sundays. Anchored by award-winning reporter and MS NOW fixture Jacob Soboroff, it will be the network's first Los Angeles-based program. Built around the connection Soboroff has forged with the MS NOW audience for more than a decade, Connect will bring viewers closer to the stories shaping the country. Connect will also bring Soboroff’s storied reporting from the ground in Los Angeles and beyond to help connect the dots between what’s happening in local communities throughout the country and larger national conversations driving politics, culture, and daily life. Dina Moss will serve as executive producer.
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