''Alex Witt Reports'' (formerly ''Weekends with Alex Witt'') is a news program on

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

anchored by Alex Witt. The program airs in the morning and in the afternoon on both Saturdays and Sundays in the

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. Witt previously anchored the weekend edition of ''

MSNBC Live ''MSNBC Reports'' (formerly ''MSNBC Live'') is the blanket title for the daytime rolling news programming block of the American cable news channel MSNBC. Programs under the banner are broadcast from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET on week ...

''. When MSNBC announced that regular contributor

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would be hosting a new weekend talk show, she was given a branded program as part of the network's new weekend morning lineup. ''Weekends with Alex Witt'' and ''

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'' debuted on September 17, 2011. In a 2015 realignment of MSNBC's daytime lineup, ''Weekends'' was removed from the lineup, but Witt maintained her time slot under the ''MSNBC Live'' banner. The ''Weekends'' branding was later reinstated. In March 2021, it was announced that the program would be rebranded as ''Alex Witt Reports'', reintegrating it with the ''MSNBC Live'' programs under a new standard brand.

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