NEW YORK:

MSNBC is giving Washington correspondent Kasie Hunt a pre-morning coffee shift on weekdays and expanding its weekend lineup to have more live hours of news. Hunt will revive the “Way Too Early” news program that will air at 5 am Eastern on weekdays, leading into “Morning Joe.” She’ll give up her weekend program, “Kasie DC,” and start her new shift on Sept 21, the network has said.

MSNBC is also starting two new weekend evening shows on Sept 19 that will ensure the network is on live both Saturday and Sunday until 10 p.m Eastern. Currently, the network usually switches to pre-taped programming at 7 pm on Saturday and 9 pm on Sunday.

Alicia Menendez, who joined MSNBC last year after working at PBS and Fusion, will host “American Voices” from 6 pm to 8 pm on Saturdays and Sunday. The host of the “Latina to Latina” podcast says she hopes to feature underrepresented voices.