The wall-to-wall cable information and community protection of Thursday’s prime-time Jan. 6 committee listening to will as soon as once more have a notable hole: Fox Information.
Fox won’t carry the listening to dwell, as a substitute reserving what are usually its highest-rated hours for its typical programming lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Its sister community, Fox Enterprise, will take the listening to dwell beginning at 8 p.m., the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Viewers of Fox Information, the nation’s most-watched cable information community, will in all probability have to attend till midnight for any prolonged dialogue of the night’s occasions. The anchor Shannon Bream will dedicate her nightly present at the moment to the subject.
The committee’s different prime-time listening to final month was additionally not carried dwell by Fox Information. The community aired its typical prime-time lineup then, too. Mr. Carlson defined to his viewers, as he has many occasions earlier than, that he wasn’t going to indulge the committee’s “mendacity.” Mr. Hannity dismissed the listening to as a “sham.”
Fox Information has aired the hearings which have taken place through the day, when hundreds of thousands fewer viewers are watching. However these days had been hardly large for the community. It was eclipsed within the rankings by CNN and MSNBC, one thing that not often occurs.