MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network launched July 15, 1996 as a joint venture between NBC News and Microsoft ("MSN" and "NBC") for a cable network and the MSNBC.com website. Microsoft later divested its ownership stake (the MSNBC channel going to NBCUniversal in 2005, followed by an MSNBC.com separation in 2012). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC