MSNBC Strikes Distribution Deal With the UK's Sky News
MSNBC and the United Kingdom's Sky News have struck a multi-year distribution deal, the two outlets announced on Wednesday, allowing the newly spun-off network to tap into Sky News' roster of correspondents and analysts. The deal, which begins Oct. 1, allows MSNBC to expand its international coverage through Sky News' 11 foreign bureaus, including those in Beijing, Jerusalem and Moscow. MSNBC has also hired Ian Sherwood, an NBC News alum, as its director of international newsgathering It comes months before MSNBC is set to rebrand as MS Now (My Source for News, Opinion, and the World) . . .