[media] MSNBC, umm, something, something

[danny burstein]

[Brian Stelter]

MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News

As the cable news channel MSNBC splits up with NBC News, it is also
dropping the NBC from its name. Later this year, the channel will become
MS NOW, which stands for My Source for News, Opinion, and the World
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rest (move anything breakable out of reach before reading):

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/msnbc-msnow-nbc-news-versant-split

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[Doug Elrod]

It's just too bad that the "N" isn't for "Now" :-) (Is there a name for recursive abbreviations?)

-Doug Elrod (dr...@cornell.edu)

[Steven Otte]

Speaking of recursive abbreviations, one of my favorite fun facts is that Nabisco originally stood for National Biscuit Company. Then they KFC’d themselves and officially changed their name to just NABISCO, not short for anything. Later still, they went back on that decision… sort of. Now, NABISCO officially stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company. Which, of course, stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company. Which in turn stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company Biscuit Company. And so on, and so on.

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> It's just too bad that the "N" isn't for "Now" :-) (Is there a name for recursive abbreviations?)

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[danny burstein]

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, Steven Otte wrote:

> Speaking of recursive abbreviations, one of my favorite fun facts is
> that Nabisco originally stood for National Biscuit Company. Then they
> KFC'd themselves and officially changed their name to just NABISCO, not

> short for anything. Later still, they went back on that decision, sort

> of. Now, NABISCO officially stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company. Which,
> of course, stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company. Which in
> turn stands for NABISCO Biscuit Company Biscuit Company Biscuit Company.
> And so on, and so on.

Speaking of Nabisco, one of the secondary "networks" had
a series of programs called something like "foods that made
America great".

Pretty good recreations of the early days of Entnmanns,
Sunshine/Hydrox, NABISCO!, and lots of others.

Probably avaiable online if you can figure out the names...

And so it goes.

[rych withers home]

The non-commercial radio station I work for has regularly gotten phone calls
for Kentucky Fried Chicken. We're KFCF and when Kentucky Fried Chicken
changed their name to KFC they didn't update their phone book listings.
Remember phone books? We just got a new yellow pages a few months ago...
and they are still listed as Kentucky Fried Chicken.

[Jim Ellwanger]

They've re-embraced the full "Kentucky Fried Chicken" name over the past few years (coinciding, I believe, with the debut of the commercials featuring various comedians/actors dressed as Colonel Sanders).

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