Christine Romans Gets Two-Hour Show as NBC News Expands Streaming

Christine Romans is getting a new title and a new program.

The veteran correspondent, who joined NBC News in 2023 after two decades at CNN, is being elevated to chief business correspondent at the NBCUniversal-backed news outlet and will this summer begin anchoring a two-hour mid-morning program on NBC News Now, the company’s live-streamed news service.

The addition of Romans’ program, which will air at 10 a.m. weekdays, will give NBC News Now 14 hours of live news programming each day — more original hours than any of its rivals.

“Christine brings deep expertise and clarity to complex, fast-moving stories, from inflation and government shutdowns to the global impact of war and the forces shaping the modern economy,” said Rebecca Blumenstein, president of editorial for NBC News and Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president of programming for NBC News, in a memo to staffers Wednesday. “She has a track record of landing interviews with leading CEOs and influential voices across a range of industries.”

Before joining NBC News, Romans established deep roots at CNN, which she joined in 1999 after stints at newspapers and Reuters Television. She had been around CNN long enough to have worked as a correspondent on Lou Dobbs’ evening business-news program and to have appeared on the now defunct CNNfN, a business-news cable network meant to help the former Time Warner compete with CNBC. She also anchored “Early Start,” an early-morning program on CNN for which the network has struggled to find a permanent successor.

Every mainstream TV outlet in the U.S. has taken its own approach to streaming news. Fox News operates a subscription-based news outlet, Fox Nation, and CNN is trying to expand the launch of subscription outlet. In their memo, NBC News executives said NBC News Now’s first quarter “was our most-watched in a year, and March marked our strongest month since June 2025,” noting that during moments of breaking news, “our ratings often outperform more established cable news channels.”

NBC News Now operations will soon move into Studio 3A at NBC News’ headquarters in New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Soon, “NBC Nightly News” will also make use of the same facility since anchor Tom Llamas pivots from the broadcast news program to “Top Story,” a program that immediately follows on the streaming service. The studio was previously used by the network formerly known as MSNBC, which used to share space when it was part of NBCUniversal.