According to Comcast's announced timeline, NBC News will roughly have a year to unwind itself from MSNBC and CNBC with SpinCo expected to launch in late 2025. Media watchers are now turning their eyes to Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global—which own CNN and CBS News, respectively— as the next possible conglomerates to break up with their cable channels. Appearing on Morning Joe on Wednesday, CNBC co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin spotlighted why he's bullish on MSNBC leaving NBC News for SpinCo. "MSNBC [and] CNBC produce extraordinary profits," he noted. "So the question is: If you could take that money that's coming off of these channels and invest it in the businesses as an independent entity—what [does] that ultimately look like?" [This post has been updated to include details from Mike Cavanagh's memo, Brian Steinberg's Variety report, MSNBC sources and Andrew Ross Sorkin's Morning Joe appearance.]