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| Subject: Good Stuff: Fox News to Add Another Hour of Right-Wing Talk as Biden Takes Office Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:13 pm | |
| The anchor Martha MacCallum will be replaced by a conservative host at 7 p.m., and CNN will expand Jake Tapper’s afternoon show.
Rupert Murdoch’s cable news channel said on Monday that it would revamp its daytime lineup starting next week, the week of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration, adding another hour of right-wing opinion as a lead-in to its prime-time stars Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
The changes, beginning Monday, come as Fox News has experienced an unusual ratings dip that began after Election Day. Pro-Trump viewers balked at the network’s early call of Arizona in favor of Mr. Biden, and its subsequent recognition of Mr. Biden as the rightful victor further alienated supporters of President Trump, who has insisted, falsely, that the contest was rigged. CNN has beaten Fox News in viewership over the past few weeks, according to Nielsen.
Notably, Martha MacCallum, a Fox News anchor who has been paired with Bret Baier as the face of the network’s political reporting team, will shift to 3 p.m. from her current, more desirable time slot.
Ms. MacCallum’s 7 p.m. program, “The Story,” had the ignominious distinction of losing one evening in December to Newsmax, a niche conservative network with a considerably smaller footprint than Fox News, in the key viewer demographic that determines ad rates. Newsmax has embraced Mr. Trump’s false claims about the election and until recently insisted that the president could still prevail. (Since that nadir, Ms. MacCallum’s viewership has consistently outranked Newsmax.)
The move opens up a coveted bit of television real estate. Fox News remains hugely influential among conservatives; last year, it was far and away the highest-rated cable news network overall. The network will audition several conservative hosts at 7 p.m., starting next week with Brian Kilmeade of the morning program “Fox & Friends.”
.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/business/media/fox-news-anchor-changes.html
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