MSNBC Viewers Might Be About To See Even More Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski== THE HUFFINGTON POST'S 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY== The Gramercy Terrace, New York== May 4, 2015== Photo-JIMI CELESTE/patrickmcmullan.com== (PatrickMcMullan.com via AP Images)
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MSNBC is considering expanding its morning news talk show, “Morning Joe,” beyond its current three-hour time slot to give co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough an even bigger platform on the West Coast, an executive told Variety in an interview published Monday.

Andrew Lack, who supervises MSNBC and NBC News, called the show “the most influential” morning cable news program on television, and said the network was considering how to expand the program, although a plan hadn’t been finalized.

“It’s on at 6 to 9 a.m. in the eastern time zone. It isn’t really seen as much in Los Angeles as we’d like to to be – in Los Angeles, where it’s 3 a.m., or San Francisco or Seattle,” Lack told the publication. “I’m just looking at ways to extend some of the good work that Joe and Mika are doing and turn it around, expand it.”

“In my view, it is the most influential program in cable news in the morning, and I think it’s missing an opportunity in the west,” Lack added, according to the report.

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