“FOX News @ Night” changes to midnight / Eastern time week nights
NEW YORK – February 10, 2021 – FOX News Channel (FNC) hit a prime-time talk show on Saturday The Greg Gutfeld Show hosted by Greg Gutfeld will expand to a full schedule during the week, announced FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott. The program will launch in the second quarter of 2021 and air during the week at 11 pm Eastern Time, followed by FOX News @ Night, which will change to 12:00 pm Eastern Time, increasing the hours of live, original programming on the FNC to 21 per day of the week. A replacement primetime weekend program for Gutfeld’s Saturday night show at 10 pm / ET will be announced at a later date.
In making the announcement, Ms. Scott said: “People need a reason to laugh. Greg’s unique and irreverent talk show has been an incredible success, often beating the nightly broadcast competition, despite his Saturday schedule. With one of the most loyal and engaged audiences in cable news, we are excited to bring the program into prime time on weekdays and further solidify Greg’s place among late night television stars. “
Mr. Gutfeld added: “This seems to be the perfect next step after the incredible success of the weekend show, which is due in large part to an excellent team and an administration that allows the show to follow its own unique path. Every day someone comes to me to ask when we go every night, so now that we go, there will be approximately 3 million people who will say that it is their idea! “
A comic hour with parodies about current events and exclusive monologues, The Greg Gutfeld Show has continued to outperform its nightly competition since launching in 2015. In 2020, the program presented its most watched year ever recorded and was the most watched weekend program in the youngest demo in all cable news (2.5 million total viewers; 400,000 in demo 25-54). The Greg Gutfeld Show also exceeded several evening programs broadcast in full audience, including ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s The Tonight Show.
Mr. Gutfeld joined FNC in 2007 and served as one of the co-presenters of the The five since the program was launched almost ten years ago and will continue to function there as well. Featuring a robust conversation about the main problems and news of the day, The five is consistently ranked among the highest rated programs in all cable news, with an average of 3.7 million viewers and 600,000 in the 25-54 demo in 2020. The five it also ranked third in total viewers on cable news in 2020, making it the only non-prime time program to rank in the top five, and had its most watched year in the program’s history.
A libertarian political satirist, humorist, magazine editor and blogger, Gutfeld was called “outrageous and outspoken”, none of which he denies. Before joining FNC, Mr. Gutfeld was the editor in chief of the Men’s health magazine. He later became editor in chief of Thing, where it increased circulation from 750,000 to 1.2 million and created controversy month after month and also directed Maximum magazine in the UK.
Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Mr. Gutfeld holds a BA in English. He is the author of five New York Times best-selling books, including the most recent, “The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help”. He also maintains his own website, The Gutter, where he writes about the news and pop culture of the time, from a conservative libertarian humoristic bias.
The FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour news service that offers breaking news, as well as political and business news. Number one cable network, FNC has been the most watched news channel for 19 consecutive years. According to a report on the 2020 Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index Brand Keys, FOX News is the nation’s leading brand for morning and evening news coverage. A 2019 survey by Suffolk University also identified FOX News as the most reliable source of news or television commentary, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion Engagement Analysis survey revealed that FOX News was the most reliable cable news brand. Owned by FOX Corp, FNC is available in nearly 90 million households and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely ranking among the ten most important programs of its kind.
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