MCN Breaking News: Lack Returns To Lead NBC News, MSNBC

March 6, 2015 Lack Returns to Lead NBC News, MSNBC Andy Lack has returned to NBC as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, making official a move that had been rumored. Lack, who ran NBC News from 1993-2001, will take over a news department recently stung by the Brian Williams scandal, in which the Nightly News anchorman was suspended for six months after he lied about his coverage of the Iraq War. He will also oversee a ratings-challenged MSNBC, which has saw its primetime average drop 8% year to year in 2004 to less than 600,000 subscribers. NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke said in an internal memo that Lack will replace current NBC News Group chairman Pat Fili-Krushel. Read more>>

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