NBCNews.com, formerly known as msnbc.com, is a news website owned and operated by NBCUniversal as the online arm of NBC News. Along with original and wire reporting, it features content from digital operations such as NBC News Now, and television programming such as Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and Dateline NBC,
The site was founded in 1996 as a 50-50 venture between NBC and Microsoft; at the same time the two companies formed a separate joint venture for the cable news network MSNBC. Although they shared the same name, msnbc.com and MSNBC maintained separate corporate structures and news operations, with msnbc.com headquartered on the West Coast on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and MSNBC in the NBC headquarters in New York.
Microsoft divested its stake in the MSNBC channel in 2005, and divested its stake in msnbc.com in July 2012; the channel was concurrently rebranded under the NBC News name, and the msnbc.com domain name was later relaunched as a site for the cable network.
History
The site was established as msnbc.com in 1996 at the same time as the MSNBC cable news channel.