Fox News has selected Shannon Bream, its chief legal correspondent and late-night news anchor, to host its signature political talk show, Fox News Sunday. Chronology.
The job has been vacant since late last year when Chris Wallace abruptly left after becoming increasingly nervous about the decline of middle-tier political programming on the network.
This show is like an island in the world of Fox Media. Unlike the provocative conservative commentary that hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity provide in prime time on the Fox News Network, the content of “Fox News Sunday” is more neutral, Modeled after the traditional Sunday morning news program based in Washington. Democrats regularly sit down for lengthy interviews on the show, despite the reluctance of many during the channel’s weekday shows to do so.
“Fox News Sunday” airs first on Fox Broadcasting Network and then on Fox Cable Network later in the day.
Bream is known to Fox viewers for his reporting on legal matters and the Supreme Court, and is also known as the host of Fox News’ midnight news programme, “Fox News @ Night.” Initially, the show aired at 11 p.m. before the network jumped on Greg He Gutfeld’s comedy show. Greg Gutfeld is also the co-host of the conservative roundtable talk show The Five. The move was part of Fox’s programming shift that left some newscasters and correspondents, including Wallace, behind.
Bream is the latest of several women promoted to senior positions under Fox CEO Suzanne Scott. Ailes, the founder of the network. Most recently, Scott, who was head of programming at Fox News before being named chief executive officer in 2018, appointed Martha McCallum, Dana Perino, Harris Faulkner and Laura Ingraham as hosts. did.
