Greg Gutfeld Signs Multi-Year Contract Extension With FOX News Media
April 04 2024 - 2:05PM
Business Wire
FOX News Media and Greg Gutfeld have agreed to a multi-year
contract extension where he will continue as host of FOX News
Channel’s (FNC) late-night sensation Gutfeld! and co-host of The
Five, announced FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott. Gutfeld will also
host/produce FOX Nation programming from time to time.
In making the announcement, Scott said, “Greg is a true original
whose trademark political and cultural commentary, humor and gifted
writing has deeply connected and grown with our audience for more
than 17 years. Upon launching Gutfeld! three years ago, he rapidly
disrupted the status quo to become the most-watched host in the
genre with more viewers tuning in to his show than any other
late-night program on television. We are proud to be the home of
Greg, his unparalleled analysis and late-night’s highest-rated
program for many years to come.”
Gutfeld added, “Since joining the network in 2007, FOX News has
given me the freedom to be unabashedly myself and, in turn, deliver
a distinct experience for our audience. There aren’t many platforms
that allow this type of creative independence and I’m proud to be a
part of Suzanne’s team.”
Gutfeld!, which celebrates its third anniversary this Friday,
includes regular panelists George “Tyrus” Murdoch and Kat Timpf
offering their no-holds-barred takes on the news of the day
accompanied by skits and analysis with a satirical twist from
10-11PM/ET every weeknight. The hit program draws the largest
audience in late-night television in viewers with 2.2 million
viewers and 304,000 in the 25-54 demo, topping CBS’ The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
& Late Night with Seth Meyers, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and
Comedy Central’s recently relaunched The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart. Gutfeld! also beats Kimmel, Meyers, and Stewart in the
25-54 and 18-49 demos. Additionally, for the first quarter of 2024,
Gutfeld! was the highest-rated program in the 25-54 demo in cable
news for the first time in the program’s history.
Since its launch in 2021, Gutfeld has increased his audience by
47% in viewership and 10% in the 18-49 demo, while also topping CNN
and MSNBC combined across the board. In addition, Gutfeld! is home
to the most affluent (among A25-54) and politically balanced
audience in its timeslot with more Democrats and Independents
watching than any of the competition, according to data from
Nielsen and Nielsen MRI Fusion.
In addition to late-night role, Gutfeld serves as co-host of
cable’s highest-rated program The Five (5-6 PM/ET) which averaged
3,038,000 viewers in 1Q ’24 and topped all programs on cable for
the last ten consecutive quarters. As one of the five original
hosts when the program launched in 2011, Gutfeld and the ensemble,
which includes Harold Ford Jr., Dana Perino, Jeanine Pirro, Jessica
Tarlov and Jesse Watters, discuss news stories, controversies, and
issues of the day in spirited and spontaneous format which has
become appointment viewing on cable. Previously, Gutfeld was the
host of The Greg Gutfeld Show (2015-2021), which aired on Saturday
nights and outpaced several late-night broadcast programs in
viewership. Prior to that, he helmed the overnight cable news
sleeper hit Red Eye.
The author of six New York Times bestselling books, including
his latest, “The King of Late Night,” Gutfeld previously served as
the editor-in-chief of Men’s Health, Stuff and Maxim magazines and
is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business
Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books,
the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News
International and the free ad-supported television service FOX
Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has
also been the most watched television news channel for 22
consecutive years, while FBN is the top business channel on cable.
Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million
people each month.
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