First Look (MSNBC program)
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| Genre | News program |
| Presented by |
Alex Witt Ali Velshi |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | GE Building, 30 Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NBC News Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | MSNBC |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV/letterboxed), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 2004 – present |
Morning Joe First Look (formerly First Look) is an American morning news program airing on MSNBC. It is broadcast live Monday through Friday mornings at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, and competes with CNN's Early Start and Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends First. The program is currently co-anchored by Alex Witt and Ali Velshi.
Morning Joe First Look consists of many of the same segments and is produced by the same staff as NBC's early morning news program Way Too Early; some segments, such as a local weather cut-in and some feature stories, are either excluded or changed for the MSNBC broadcast, along with the anchor background (an early morning skycam shot of Manhattan on First Look, and sunrise scenes for Early Today) and graphical styling. There is a segment that is exclusive to the MSNBC newscast, a segment aired before the entertainment news summary at the end of the program, featuring excerpts from the monologue of the previous night/weeknight's episode of either The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon or Late Night with Seth Meyers, followed by the guest list of the upcoming episode. A replay of First Look aired at 5:30 a.m. ET before July 27, 2009, when Way Too Early with Willie Geist premiered.
MSNBC put the program on a short-term hiatus to test a 5 a.m. replay of both Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show at various times from February to April 2009;First Look was restored onto the schedule after that.
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