MSNBC to be Renamed MS NOW After Comcast Spinoff

Political news network MSNBC is preparing to change its name, part of Comcast Corp.’s plan to spin off some of its cable channels into a separate company called Versant.

The network will be called My Source News, Opinion and the World or MS NOW for short, Versant Chief Executive Officer Mark Lazarus told employees Monday in an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg.