It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal, all of which are owned by Comcast. MSNBC and msnbc.com were founded in 1996 as a partnership between Microsoft and General Electric's NBC unit, hence the network's naming.
MARTIN: Mary Agnes Carey is a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News. That's a nonprofit news service. It's not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente, and she was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C. studios. Mary Agnes, thanks again.
Agnes was venerated as a saint at least as early as the time of St. Ambrose, based on an existing homily. Agnes's bones are conserved beneath the high altar in the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb that housed her tomb.