"MSNBC's first national map night without past fixture Steve Kornacki looked, for a moment, like it might spook MSNBC's most hardcore partisans, but by the time the returns were rolling, a different verdict emerged and his replacement, journalist Ali Velshi, became the nothing short of a beloved hero. The channel, soon to rebrand as MS NOW on November 15 parent as Comcast spins off into a new unit called Versant, has been aggressively insisting the split won't change the core of what it does,"
"The anxiety among the most hardcore MSNBC fans on the corners of Reddit and X was extremely real until about six minutes into the night, when the consensus utterly flipped. Oh, ali velshi on the big board ??!!! I can get behind that! alison (@AlisonLyonne) November 5, 2025 A poll held by the Redditors sounded out clear approval: (Screengrab via reddit)"
"As the night wore on, a new meme had silently locked in: Velshi's vest was the new Kornacki khaki. The absence wasn't personal. Kornacki signed a new NBC deal last year he's still crunching numbers for NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas on NBC News Now, alongside Hallie Jackson and Kristen Welker. But the purest cable-news creatures, the MSNBC fans, discovered they could love somebody new."
MSNBC ran its first national map night without Steve Kornacki, with Ali Velshi stepping in as the on-air replacement. Early anxiety among hardcore viewers on Reddit and X shifted to approval within minutes, with viewers praising Velshi and sharing enthusiastic screengrabs. Social-media reactions produced a meme comparing Velshi's vest to Kornacki's khaki. Comcast is spinning off the network into a unit called Versant and rebranding the channel as MS NOW on November 15, while maintaining opinion primetime and retaining top-rated hosts. Kornacki signed a new NBC deal and continues work on NBC News Now.
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