Since the election, Fox News has lost 40 percent of its audience.
President Trump and his supporters blame it on the network’s growing anti-Trump bias during its news programs.
And now Fox News admitted they made one big mistake when they canceled this show.
On Monday, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott circulated a memo announcing changes to Fox News Channel’s broadcast schedule in 2021.
“As we kick off a new year, we are excited to announce new changes to our schedule. We have the best-in-class anchors, interviewers, reporters and talent in all of news media. This new powerful lineup ensures FOX News Media will continue to deliver outstanding coverage for our viewers who depend on the most trusted names in the business,” Scott wrote.
The biggest change was demoting host Martha MacCallum from her 7PM primetime show to a 3PM daytime hour.
Scott revealed that MacCallum’s show would be replaced by a primetime opinion show hosted by a rotating cast of Fox News personalities until the network could settle on a permanent host.
“Martha MacCallum’s The Story will move to 3PM/ET while FNC original Neil Cavuto will continue to anchor his post-market show Your World (4-5 PM/ET), followed by The Five (5-6 PM/ET) and Special Report with Bret Baier (6-7 PM/ET). A rotating group of FOX News opinion hosts will helm the 7PM hour, entitled FOX News Primetime. A permanent 7PM/ET opinion host will be named at a later date,” Scott stated.
MacCallum’s show was labeled “news” by Fox and many viewers just do not trust Fox News after they prematurely called Arizona for Joe Biden and some news anchors repeatedly attacked Donald Trump for making claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Fox is trying to regain its lost viewership by shifting a news anchor who failed to gain significant traction and replacing her with the type of primetime opinion programming that is the network’s staple.
Viewers still remain loyal to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and that’s why Fox News is hoping to generate higher ratings by adding a fourth hour of opinion programming to primetime.
Pants in Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.