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.
Image Source: http://www.glogster.com/nolamatt/mary-harris-jones-project/g-6lsl44c1hk18albniupfpa0. Mary Harris âMotherâ Jones was a courageous fighter for the rights of the workers and organizer of workersâ strikes in the first two decades of the 20th century.