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Chris Matthews Revives ‘Hardball’ on Substack

The former MSNBC host retired five years ago, but says he will reboot his cable news program on the subscription platform.

Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews is rebooting the cable news show, which chronicled the world of politics across three networks for some 26 years from 1994 until 2020. Substack has been leaning into video-first creators on its platform in recent months, with many TV news veterans among those eager to launch their own shows. Former MSNBC hosts Mehdi Hasan and Reid, the former CNN anchor Acosta, and others have all launched on the platform, and Matthews appears poised to join them.

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