FOX News Channel to Host a Town Hall with 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Julián Castro on June 13
May 30 2019 - 11:25AM
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 and former HUD Secretary Julián
Castro on Thursday, June 13th, announced Jay Wallace, President and
Executive Editor of FOX News and FOX Business Network. Moderated by
Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story’s Martha MacCallum, the
one hour town hall will originate live from Phoenix, Arizona from
6:30-7:30PM/ET and discuss the top issues surrounding the 2020
election cycle. Additionally, 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, “Our town halls have
been overwhelmingly successful which continue to prove that FOX
News is the destination for Democratic presidential candidates. We
look forward to hosting Julián Castro and having another
informative conversation that will no doubt help shape the 2020
race.”
The forthcoming event with Secretary Castro will mark the sixth
presidential town hall of the current election season hosted by FNC
and the fifth with a Democratic presidential candidate. FOX News
Sunday’s Chris Wallace will moderate the next town hall with Sen.
Kirsten Gillibrand on June 2nd in Dubuque, Iowa.
In April, Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story’s Martha
MacCallum co-moderated the network’s inaugural 2020 presidential
town hall with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which garnered nearly
2.6 million viewers making it the highest-rated event of the
election cycle, according to Nielsen Media Research. They also
moderated a town hall with former Starbucks Chairman Howard
Schultz, who is contemplating a run for President. In May, Baier
and MacCallum co-hosted Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy
Klobuchar for a town hall in Milwaukee, WI which topped cable news
competition in the timeslot for that evening and outpaced CNN’s
previous town hall with her. Most recently, FNC presented a town
hall with 2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg on May
19th in Claremont, NH moderated by Chris Wallace, which also beat
the cable news competition across the board and out-rated CNN’s
previous town hall with him.
Baier and MacCallum have played pivotal roles throughout the
network’s election coverage, including interviewing candidates,
moderating 2016 presidential debates, co-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 is a unit of FOX News
Media and 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. 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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