Country of origin United States Camera setup Multi-camera Production company(s) NBC News Productions Genre News program Presented by Alex Witt, Ali Velshi | Original language(s) English Running time 60 minutes First episode date March 2012 Language English | |
Location(s) GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York Similar MSNBC Live, Early Today, CBC News: Morning, Way Too Early, CNN Newsroom Profiles | ||
Morning Joe First Look (formerly First Look) is an American morning news program airing on MSNBC. It is broadcast live Monday through Friday mornings at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, and competes with CNN's Early Start and Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends First. The program is currently co-anchored by Alex Witt, Ayman Mohyeldin, and Louis Bergdorf.
Contents
Format
Morning Joe First Look consists of many of the same segments and is produced by the same staff as NBC's early morning news program Way Too Early; some segments, such as a local weather cut-in and some feature stories, are either excluded or changed for the MSNBC broadcast, along with the anchor background (an early morning skycam shot of Manhattan on First Look, and sunrise scenes for Early Today) and graphical styling. There is a segment that is exclusive to the MSNBC newscast, a segment aired before the entertainment news summary at the end of the program, featuring excerpts from the monologue of the previous night/weeknight's episode of either The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon or Late Night with Seth Meyers, followed by the guest list of the upcoming episode. A replay of First Look aired at 5:30 a.m. ET before July 27, 2009, when Way Too Early with Willie Geist premiered.
MSNBC put the program on a short-term hiatus to test a 5 a.m. replay of both Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show at various times from February to April 2009; First Look was restored onto the schedule after that.
Between November 2005, when CNN cancelled Daybreak and January 2011, when CNN began simulcasting CNN International's World Business Today and World One, Early Today and Way Too Early (which formerly followed the program at 5:30 a.m. ET) were the only morning news programs amongst the American cable news channels with a pre-6 a.m. ET start time.
During the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2016, the program was retitled Morning Joe First Look with the latter show's logo blended into a new logo for First Look, but retained the same format, while some Way Too Early early features were blended into what is now the second half-hour of First Look; the latter program was discontinued.
On-air staff
As Morning Joe First Look is broadcast from the same studio at the GE Building in New York City as NBC's early morning news program Early Today, the same personalities are seen on both programs. Alex Witt presently serve as main anchormof the program. Louis Burgdorf began to serve as a co-anchor with the Morning Joe brand extension, and does most of his duties from the NBC News control room. NBC meteorologist Bill Karins provides the national and regional weather forecast segments.
Former on-air staff
International broadcasts
MSNBC and NBC News programs, including Morning Joe First Look, are shown for several hours a day on the 24-hour news network OSN News in MENA Region.