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MSNBC staffers are "cautiously optimistic" about the uncharted territory their network is heading into once its separation with NBC News is finally complete. Except the channel's new name has not received the warmest reception.

On Monday, MSNBC announced the new name: MS NOW, an acronym for "My Source for News, Opinion, and the World."

"I did see somebody joke on social media that pretty soon we're just going to call it MS-13, which I thought was kind of funny," one MSNBC staffer told Fox News Digital .

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Last year, Comcast announced it was spinning off its cable networks into a separate company, now named Versant. Versant will be the new home of MSNBC, CNBC, U

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