Christine Romans will anchor a two-hour weekday programme called Current on NBC News Now starting August 3, 2026, the streaming channel's latest expansion of its live news schedule.

The show runs from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern Time, covering finance, business, technology and artificial intelligence. Segments will also venture beyond the studio: a launch franchise called "50 States in 50 Days," produced in partnership with NBC's local affiliate stations, will spotlight local solutions to national challenges (Variety).

Kerrie Wudyka, an NBC News veteran producer, will serve as executive producer of Current. The appointment pairs a host steeped in business reporting with a producer tasked with shaping a programme that blends market coverage with a road-trip journalism format.

With Current added to the lineup, NBC News Now will carry 14 hours of live news programming each day. NBC News Now is the network's free, ad-supported streaming news channel — no subscription required, available through smart TVs, apps and the NBC News website.

Romans was elevated to chief business correspondent at NBC News in April 2026, a role she took on alongside her broader on-air presence across the network's programmes. She joined NBC News in 2023 after roughly two decades at CNN, where she built her reputation as a business and economics anchor and correspondent (Variety).

The move gives Romans her first daily show at NBC News Now — a platform that has been steadily adding live programming hours as it competes for streaming-news viewers. The two-hour block is a meaningful chunk of the daytime schedule, and it places a business-focused anchor in a slot where financial and technology stories can get extended treatment rather than a brief segment in a general news bulletin.

The "50 States in 50 Days" franchise signals where Current hopes to distinguish itself. Rather than relying solely on studio-based analysis, the segment will draw on reporting from NBC affiliates across the country — local stations feeding stories about community-level responses to problems that affect the whole nation. The partnership with affiliates is a structural choice: it uses a reporting network NBC already has, rather than building a new one from scratch.

For viewers, the show offers a free option for morning-to-midday business and technology news on a streaming platform — no cable package or subscription needed. Whether Current finds its audience is a question the ratings will answer once the programme is on air.