FOX News Channel to Host a Town Hall with 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Wednesday, M...
April 17 2019 - 12:17PM
Business Wire
Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story’s
Martha MacCallum to Moderate
FOX News Channel (FNC) will present a town hall with 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on
Wednesday, May 8th from 6:30-7:30PM/ET in Milwaukee, WI, announced
Jay Wallace, President and Executive Editor of FOX News and FOX
Business. Co-anchored by Special Report’s Bret Baier
and The Story’s Martha MacCallum, the town hall will focus on
the 2020 presidential election and news of the day. An abbreviated
version of Baier’s Special Report will air from 6-6:30PM/ET while
MacCallum’s The Story will run from 7:30-8PM/ET with the town hall
running in between both programs.
In making the announcement, Wallace said, “FOX News Channel
continues to produce highly informative and respectful town hall
events, delivering record viewership and providing a platform to
all candidates. We are incredibly proud of the entire team and look
forward to hosting Senator Klobuchar for our next town hall.”
This marks the third such event of the current election season
hosted by FNC and the second with a Democratic presidential
candidate, following the network’s successful town hall with Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday, April 15th. According to Nielsen
Media Research, the Sanders event marked the highest-rated town
hall of the election cycle to date, attracting nearly 2.6
million viewers. Co-anchors MacCallum and Baier also held a town
hall with potential presidential contender Howard Schultz on April
4th and in February, Sen. Klobuchar appeared on Special Report with
Bret Baier for the first time since declaring her candidacy.
According to Nielsen Media Research, that interview garnered 2.5
million viewers and nearly 400,000 in the key 25-54
demographic.
Baier and MacCallum have played pivotal roles throughout the
network’s election coverage, including interviewing candidates,
moderating 2016 presidential debates, moderating town halls and
co-anchoring during major political events, such as the 2019 State
of the Union and midterm election night in November 2018. Their
coverage that night was the highest-rated midterm election
programming in cable news history with 7.8 million viewers,
according to Nielsen Media Research.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service 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 17 consecutive years. According
to a 2019 Suffolk University poll, FOX News is the most trusted
source for television news or commentary in the country while a
2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Brand Analysis survey found that
FOX News was the most trusted cable news brand. A 2017
Gallup/Knight Foundation survey also found that among Americans who
could name an objective news source, FOX News is the top-cited
outlet. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90
million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely
notching the top ten programs in the genre.
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