Elon Musk not the only billionaire interested in buying MSNBC: Report

​Comcast chief Brian Roberts is moving MSNBC and a half dozen other cable channels into SpinCo, a pure-play cable programming company. Comcast told CNN that the transaction will take about a year and SpinCo executives may not want to offload MSNBC. The CNN report said selling MSNBC to win favor with the president-elect is simply not the plan.