MSNBC and CNBC — will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News once a spinoff formally takes effect in about a year.

Comcast’s corporate reorganization means that there will soon be two television networks with “NBC” in their name — CNBC and MSNBC — that will no longer have any corporate connection to NBC News.

MSNBC may not have its name for long. The network, along with its sister business network CNBC, could have to change its name after Comcast moved on Wednesday to cleave itself of nearly all of its cable networks and sever MSNBC from the NBC News banner,