FOX News Channel Re-Signs Chris Wallace to Long-Term Contract with the Network
September 14 2017 - 1:22PM
Business Wire
FOX News’ Chris Wallace has re-signed a multi-year contract with
the network, announced Jay Wallace, president of news for FOX News
Channel (FNC). Wallace will remain in his role as anchor of FOX
News Sunday and will continue his contributions to FNC’s
programming, including all election coverage.
In making the announcement, Jay Wallace said, "Throughout his
50-plus years in broadcast journalism, Chris has established
himself as one of the most esteemed journalists of our time. We are
delighted to have him continue informing our viewers with his
hard-hitting interviews and tough-minded reporting for years to
come.”
Chris Wallace added, “After almost 14 years as the anchor of Fox
News Sunday, I think I am starting to get the hang of it. Rupert
Murdoch has asked me to stay on the beat well past the 2020
election. I am honored by his confidence, and excited to keep
reporting as part of the FOX News team.”
Wallace currently serves as the anchor of FOX News Sunday, a
one-hour live broadcast airing Sunday mornings across the nation on
FOX Broadcasting Company and on later in the day on FNC. Throughout
his 14 years as anchor, Wallace has interviewed numerous political
heavyweights and newsmakers, including: then-President-elect Donald
Trump; Vice President Mike Pence; former Presidents Barack Obama,
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush; former Vice
President Dick Cheney, then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden, former
U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice and
Colin Powell; and the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia.
During his tenure at FNC, Wallace has participated in coverage
of nearly every major political event and has played an integral
role in FOX News’ 2016, 2012, 2008 and 2004 election coverage. On
October 19th, 2016, Wallace became the first journalist from FOX
News to moderate a general election presidential debate, which took
place at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received notable
praise from both sides of the aisle for his tough questioning of
both presidential candidates at the third and final debate of the
2016 election.
Additionally, in August 2015, Wallace co-moderated the first GOP
presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle, which delivered a
record breaking 24 million viewers and is the most-watched
non-sports cable telecast of all time. He also co-moderated the
network's second and third debates of the 2016 cycle, held on
January 28th in Des Moines, IA and March 3rd in Detroit, MI.
Throughout his 50-plus years of broadcast experience, Wallace
has won every major broadcast news award for his reporting,
including three Emmy Awards, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton, a
Peabody Award, the Radio Television Digital News Association’s Paul
White Award and the Sol Taishoff Award for Broadcast Journalism,
which was bestowed on him by the National Press Foundation. Most
recently, he received the 2017 International Center for Journalists
Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism, which he will accept
this November.
A graduate of Harvard University, Wallace worked at ABC News for
14 years prior to joining FNC, where he served as the chief
correspondent for Primetime Thursday and a substitute
host for Nightline. During his tenure with ABC News, Wallace
hosted multiple groundbreaking investigations and received numerous
awards for his work. He previously served as NBC's Chief White
House correspondent from 1982-1989. While at NBC, he covered the
1980, 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns as well as the
Democratic and Republican conventions in those years. Wallace
moderated Meet the Press from 1987-1988, making him the
only person to have hosted two Sunday talk shows. He also anchored
the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News from 1982-1984 and
1986-1987. Wallace began his career with NBC at WNBC-TV (NBC 4) in
New York in 1975.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political
and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been
the most watched television news channel for more than 15 years and
according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the most
trusted television news source in the country. Owned by 21st
Century Fox, FNC is available in more than 90 million homes and
dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten
programs in the genre.
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