MSNBC viewers have seen the final of Steve Kornacki’s massive board.
However the brand new contract doesn’t embrace working for MSNBC, which is being spun off into a brand new company entity fashioned by dad or mum firm Comcast.
Kornacki, 45, will proceed to be NBC’s go-to professional for statistical evaluation of polls and election outcomes and through main sporting occasions, together with Triple Crown horse racing, the Olympics and the NFL.
Kornacki’s new deal, which makes him an NBC contributor with the title of chief knowledge analyst, permits him to pursue initiatives on different networks and media platforms so long as they’re unrelated to politics and sports activities.
He shot a sport present pilot in 2022 and, as a significant fanatic of the style, is more likely to pursue a internet hosting position sooner or later.
Kornacki’s option to depart from MSNBC is a major loss. He would be the second massive identify on-air expertise to go away because the spin-off was introduced. MSNBC fired longtime host Pleasure Reid final month.
Kornacki’s new deal, which makes him an NBC contributor with the title of chief knowledge analyst, permits him to pursue initiatives on different networks and media platforms so long as they’re unrelated to politics and sports activities.
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Kornacki’s deep dives into polling numbers and voting outcomes grew to become a signature ingredient within the community’s political protection, particularly after he put in marathon hours in entrance of his touchscreen electoral faculty map when it took 4 days to name the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden.
Kornacki’s real enthusiasm (and trademark khaki pants from the Hole) gained him a significant following on social media, together with celeb followers Chrissy Teigen and Leslie Jones. In 2020, Folks journal named him as one in all its Sexiest Males Alive. (“There was some voter fraud on that one,” he instructed The Occasions in 2021).
Kornacki grew to become a fixture for MSNBC’s political protection.
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Kornacki began out writing about politics, incomes him contributor work on CNN. He joined MSNBC in 2012 as a co-host of a panel present referred to as “The Cycle” and was later a part of the MSNBC lineup on afternoons and weekends.
After Kornacki grew to become a popular culture sensation in the course of the 2020 election, NBC expanded his position to sports activities in 2021.
As a horse racing analyst, he picked the 12-1 paying winner of the Kentucky Derby in the course of the community’s protection of the race. He additionally grew to become an everyday on NBC’s “Football Night In America” and the half-time report for “Sunday Night Football,” and broke down the medal counts throughout its Olympics protection.
