MSNBC PRESENTS MSNBCLIVE ‘25: THIS IS WHO WE ARE
ON SATURDAY, OCT. 11 – THE SECOND LIVE COMMUNITY EVENT FEATURING MORE THAN A DOZEN MSNBC HOSTS
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FOR DAY-LONG EVENT AT THE HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM IN MANHATTAN
NEW THIS YEAR: NICOLLE WALLACE, JOE SCARBOROUGH, MIKA BRZEZINSKI, AND JACOB SOBOROFF JOIN RETURNING HOSTS RACHEL MADDOW, LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, JEN PSAKI,AND MORE
FOLLOWS INAUGURAL, SOLD-OUT, 4,000-PERSON EVENT IN BROOKLYN, N.Y., MORE THAN ONE MILLION VIEWERS TUNED IN TO THE 2024 BROADCAST
(NEW YORK – July 28, 2025) – MSNBC will present its second viewer-focused, live community event on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York: MSNBCLIVE ‘25: This Is Who We Are.
Tickets are on sale now at MSNBC.com/LIVE25.
The day-long event will feature more than a dozen of MSNBC hosts and special guests for in-depth and interactive discussions, and thought-provoking interviews, connecting attendees with MSNBC’s most trusted experts and voices.
“If there’s one thing we learned last year, it’s that there’s an undeniable electricity and connection that fills the air when the MSNBC community comes together in one room,” said Luke Russert, Host and Creative Director of MSNBC Live. “MSNBCLIVE ‘25 is yet another moment for us to bring together our loyal MSNBC viewers to connect with one another, engage in powerful conversations and foster a unique sense of community needed now more than ever.”
New this year, Nicolle Wallace, host of Deadline: White House and the #1 podcast The Best People, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, and correspondent Jacob Soboroff will join the slate of returning hosts.
MSNBCLIVE ‘25 will give attendees a unique front-row seat to their favorite MSNBC hosts spread out across two expansive sessions, including a one-of-a-kind lunch and seated dinner to cap off the day.
- The Morning Session (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) will feature All In host Chris Hayes, Deadline: White House’s Nicolle Wallace, Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, The Weeknight’s Alicia Menendez, Symone Sanders Townsend and Michael Steele, and more.
- The Evening Session (5:30 to 7:30 p.m.) will feature host of The Rachel Maddow Show Rachel Maddow, The Last Word’s Lawrence O’Donnell, host of The Briefing Jen Psaki, The Beat’s Ari Melber, The 11th Hour’s Stephanie Ruhle, host of Velshi Ali Velshi, and more.
- Plus, attendees will have the opportunity to attend the limited-seating Capstone Lunch following The Morning Session to hear more from Nicolle Wallace, a women’s empowerment Know Your Value conversation led by Mika Brzezinski, along with Jacob Soboroff in conversation with fellow Los Angeles-native Katy Tur, and more.
- Finally, to close out the day, will be the Capstone Dinner featuring Rachel Maddow in conversation with Jen Psaki, Stephanie Ruhle in discussion with special guests, and more.
MSNBC Live was first announced in December 2023, featuring a dual approach to live events: a first-of-its-kind, community-focused ticketed events series, as well as more intimate, sponsored, invite-only programs. MSNBCLIVE ‘25 follows the inaugural, sold-out event that brought together 4,000 people from all over the country in Brooklyn, New York, in September 2024. The televised broadcast of the event was watched by more than one million viewers. Over the last year, MSNBC Live has also held a special in-person conversation with voting rights activist Stacey Abrams during the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the final in-person candidate forum ahead of the 2025 Democratic National Committee officer elections and more.
“After an incredible first year, we are so excited to bring the very best of MSNBC back live and in person with our most loyal viewers,” said Lauren Peikoff, Executive Producer of MSNBC Live. “This year, we’re building on last year’s success by bringing in even more of our hosts and finding more unique ways for our audience to engage with the journalists that they trust most.”
MSNBC Live furthers the network’s rapid expansion and community building across digital, social, and audio platforms. The network concluded 2024 as the #1 news network on TikTok and YouTube, and recently achieved its best quarter ever on the platform, with more than one billion video views. MSNBC.comcontinues to rank #1 among the competitive set for the amount of time spent on site. The network produces 27 showcasts and 18 original chart-topping podcasts, including the recently launched The Best People with Nicolle Wallace, which debuted at #1 on Apple and remained there for weeks.
On cable, MSNBC continues to have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television, with the average viewer watching more than eight hours each week. Over the past ten years, MSNBC viewership has doubled – from 500,000 primetime viewers in 2015 (January through May) to more than one million primetime viewers in 2025 to date – in the face of contraction of the cable television footprint.
Marcus Mabry is MSNBC’s Senior Vice President of Content Strategy. Luke Russert is the Creative Director and Host. Lauren Peikoff is the Executive Producer.
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