MSNBC Leaving Secaucus, NJ?

(From The New York Post -- By Don Kaplan)

MSNBC is on the move -- out of Secaucus.

Parent company NBC is considering bringing the No. 3 cable-news network, which employs about 500 people, across the Hudson river to its ROCKEFELLER CENTER headquarters, according to reports.

Others say it's only a matter of time before MSNBC is moved into CNBC's new campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
a few miles north.
[A really very nice facility.]

"All the options are being looked at in terms of the location," says an MSNBC insider, with knowledge of the situation.
"No decision has been made whatsoever."

In recent weeks, word of a possible move has begun to sweep through the MSNBC headquarters.

The buzz was sparked by word that MSNBC's 10-year lease at its Secaucus headquarters is up for renewal.

But a real-estate source says that the network still has several years to go on the lease, which began when MSNBC launched in 1996.

"There's really no deadline for them to move at the moment," the source says.

NBC staffers at 30 Rockefeller Center have their own opinions about a possible move.

"They'd be crazy to move it here," says an midtown NBC staffer. "They'd have to lay off half the staff, and even then it would be tight."

Another NBC'er groused, "As it is now, I have to wait
10 minutes to get an elevator in this building because so many people work here."

MSNBC officials declined to comment.