MSNBC Among Few Options for Streaming Live News

USA Today: Live TV news and digital streaming sound like a pair headed for an inevitably intertwined future. But for cord-cutters, it’s been a rocky path. The pay-TV industry’s tight grip on 24-hour news channels — similar to sports programming — underscores its need to hold onto news junkies who otherwise might ditch cable. Cable news operators are largely forbidden by their contracts with pay-TV providers from offering live streaming to those who can’t “authenticate” that they have a cable subscription.