What does the MS stand for in MSNBC?

[NNN0LHI]

I have always wondered this.

Anyone know what the MS stands for?

Probably something really simple but I can't figure it out.

Don

[The Straight Story]

1. Microsoft (nt)

[northoftheborder]

8. microsoft, correct

The history of this is fuzzy in my mind, but back in the 90's NBC and Microsoft merged, or one bought the other or some such, to create this cable channel.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. No mergers or buy-outs...

It was a partnership to create a cable news channel that would also have a web presence (MSNBC.com). At the time in 1996, it was a novel idea for a cable news network to also have a web outlet. Now, not so much...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. mikro sopht

[Tunkamerica]

3. Mister Soupy

[malaise]

4. Mostly

Shills :evilgrin:

[Oceansaway]

5. managment sucks ?...nt..(jk)

[emulatorloo]

6. Microsoft has an 18% stake in it. MSNBC.com (which is separate from the cable network)

is actually produced in Redmond on the Microsoft campus, per wikipedia


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

[Earth_First]

7. Mainstream Socialization n/t

[NYC_SKP]

9. In my world, MS generally stands for "Fail".

..

MS as in Microsoft, or in MSNBC, usually abject failures.

:P

[Kalyke]

10. It used to mean Microsoft, now it means Mealymouthed Shits.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Syths, not Shits.

[LiberalArkie]

11. When MSNBC statrted it was heavy into tech and the new internet.

Microsoft brought in the tech and NBC brought the news into it.

[hootinholler]

13. Major Sith

or MicroSoft same difference.

-Hoot