Truemors
Fox News Changes: Anchor E.D. Hill Loses Her Show, Laura Ingraham In At 5PM
By Albert N. Milliron , Editor, politisite.com
Fox News having editing difficulties with the new Host for the 5 pm. segment called, "Just in" with Laura Ingram. No, there were no Bill O'Relly rants and foul language and the fling off the jacket, but there was continuous edits to the script and continued mistakes with the crew getting things right.
Here show appears tomorrow night at 5 PM eastern nixing Fox Long Time Anchor ED Hill. ED will remain at the 2 PM segment.
Mitt Romney will be appearing. A segment on The recent Supreme court decision on Enemy Combatants getting appeal rights like Citizens, and a segment on the border's old, "Catch and Release" program. My sources at Fox have me at mum about the rest until the segment is over.
The Usual confident hard hitting Ingram was looking a bit mousy and disgruntled at the Fox Staff. Calling some of the, "just in" news old news and yesterdays news. Even making in the comment I guess that is the “Fox way.”
The show is worth a look and =before long Ingram will get her sea legs going on this show as with her other shows and fill ins.
Fox Will Try Out Conservative Host Laura Ingraham
The Fox News Channel, which has been seeking a new format for the 5 p.m. hour, will place a rotating series of personalities in the time slot beginning next week, including the conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.
Ms. Ingraham, one of the country’s most popular radio hosts, frequently fills in for Bill O’Reilly, and Fox executives appear to be grooming her as a new talent for the network. Other people will also receive trial runs in the time slot.
Fox News Channel is expected to announce the changes later Tuesday. In February the cable network replaced John Gibson, the longtime host of the 5 p.m. hour, with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, two younger anchors who also host a morning show. Mr. Hemmer and Ms. Kelly’s afternoon show, “America’s Election HQ,” covered the primary season. But now, with the party nominees known and two months until the political conventions, there may not be quite as much election news to cover.
The 5 p.m. hour, a transition time between the afternoon and evening on cable news, has seen increased competition in recent months. Fox News, normally the top-rated network in every hour, last week placed third in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet. Last week, as the primary season ended, CNN averaged 235,000 viewers in the demographic, while MSNBC saw 218,000 and Fox saw 198,000.
For the full month of May, “America’s Election HQ” topped CNN and MSNBC, averaging 200,000 demographic viewers compared to 194,000 for CNN and 176,000 for MSNBC.
In another schedule change, the network will expand the 1 p.m. show “The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum” to two hours and add a co-host, Trace Gallagher. Fox has not determined the new role for E.D. Hill, the current 2 p.m. host.
Perhaps feeling the ratings heat, Fox News is making changes to its afternoon lineup.
TVNewser reports that E.D. Hill, who hosts "America's Pulse" — and who raised many eyebrows this week after calling Barack and Michelle Obama's fist-pound a "terrorist fist jab" — has lost her show:
America's Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined. Hill has been with FNC since 1998. She co-anchored Fox & Friends for several years before moving to the 11amET hour, then launching America's Pulse.
TVNewser further reports that Martha MacCallum's "Live Desk" will be expanded to two hours and that she will take on a co-host, Trace Gallagher.
Further, the New York Times' Brian Stelter reports that the network will test Laura Ingraham in the 5PM hour (once occupied by John Gibson and filled of late by "America's Election HQ"):
The Fox News Channel, which has been seeking a new format for the 5 p.m. hour, will place a rotating series of personalities in the time slot beginning next week, including the conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.
Ms. Ingraham, one of the country's most popular radio hosts, frequently fills in for Bill O'Reilly, and Fox executives appear to be grooming her as a new talent for the network. Other people will also receive trial runs in the time slot.
Fox News Channel is expected to announce the changes later Tuesday. In February the cable network replaced John Gibson, the longtime host of the 5 p.m. hour, with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, two younger anchors who also host a morning show. Mr. Hemmer and Ms. Kelly's afternoon show, "America's Election HQ," covered the primary season. But now, with the party nominees known and two months until the political conventions, there may not be quite as much election news to cover.
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