MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to scale back to Mondays only

Rachel Maddow on Monday announced that she will step back from her MSNBC show next month with plans to only be on air one day per week.

She told her audience that starting in May, she will only present on Mondays and will oversee a broader range of NBCUniversal projects instead, Variety reported.

"I do still have all these other irons in the fire, all these other things I’m working on that I want to bring to fruition, none of them are fast, all of them take a long time, and I’m still working on all of them," the MSNBC anchor told her audience on Monday.

The network has not yet announced a successor for "The Rachel Maddow Show."

After 13 years with MSNBC, Maddow ended rumors of a split with the network in August when she renewed her contract.