MSNBC viewers have seen the final of Steve Kornacki’s large board.
However the brand new contract doesn’t embody working for MSNBC, which is being spun off into a brand new company entity fashioned by mother or father firm Comcast.
Kornacki, 45, will proceed to be NBC’s go-to knowledgeable 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 information analyst, permits him to pursue tasks 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 prone to pursue a internet hosting function sooner or later.
Kornacki’s option to depart from MSNBC is a major loss. He would be the second large identify on-air expertise to depart for the reason that 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 information analyst, permits him to pursue tasks 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) received him a significant following on social media, together with celeb followers Chrissy Teigen and Leslie Jones. In 2020, Individuals journal named him as one in every of its Sexiest Males Alive. (“There was some voter fraud on that one,” he informed The Instances 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 known 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 function 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.
