{"id":844815,"date":"2026-08-03T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844815\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:29:11","slug":"ms-now-sets-debut-for-peter-alexanders-weekday-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844815\/","title":{"rendered":"MS NOW Sets Debut For Peter Alexander&#8217;s Weekday Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/peter-alexander\/\" id=\"auto-tag_peter-alexander\" data-tag=\"peter-alexander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Alexander<\/a>\u2018s new show on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ms-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ms-now\" data-tag=\"ms-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MS NOW<\/a> will debut on Aug. 10, marking his switch from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc-news\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc-news\" data-tag=\"nbc-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tState of Play with Peter Alexander will air weekdays at 11 a.m. ET. Alexander also will serve as the MS NOW\u2019s chief national reporter and breaking news anchor. The show will be based in Washington, with Sandi Cohen as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a memo to staffers, Greg Kordick, MS NOW\u2019s senior vice president of programming, wrote, \u201cBuilt around Peter\u2019s trusted reporting, deep experience covering Washington, and unmatched relationships across government and beyond, the program aims to help audiences better understand not only what is happening, but why it matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlexander announced his departure from NBC News in March after 22 years, a tenure that included not just stints on the White House beat but as co-host of Today on Saturdays. MS NOW has been building out its own news operation following its split from Comcast. The new parent company, Versant, also includes CNBC, the Golf Channel and USA Sports. Alexander also will contribute to sports and lifestyle programming in the company\u2019s portfolio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMS NOW\u2019s Antonia Hylton has been anchoring the 11 a.m. in the interim, and Kordick said that plans will be announced for her own program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe networks rolled out a schedule overhaul earlier this summer, including Stephanie Ruhle\u2019s new morning show, Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle, airing from 9 a.m. ET to 11 a.m. ET. Alicia Menendez hosts On the Line with Alicia Menendez at noon ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Alexander\u2018s new show on MS NOW will debut on Aug. 10, marking his switch from NBC News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,28755,75,114440,27859,294200,348],"class_list":["post-844815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-electionline","tag-entertainment","tag-ms-now","tag-nbc-news","tag-peter-alexander","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}