Fox News Taps Bill Hemmer To Anchor News Hour In Shepard Smith’s Former Time Slot

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://deadline.com/2019/12/bill-hemmer-fox-news-shepard-smith-1202804627/

Bill Hemmer will anchor an hour long newscast on Fox News Channel starting in January, filling the time slot after Shepard Smith’s departure.

Fox News announced Hemmer as the permanent anchor in the 3 p.m. ET hour on Monday.

Bill Hemmer Reports will launch on Jan. 20. Hemmer will exit Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom, which airs from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, and a rotating journalist will join anchor Sandra Smith until a permanent co-anchor is named.

Since Smith’s surprise departure in October, Fox News Channel has featured a rotating series of substitute anchors until a permanent replacement was named.

Starts in 2020.

 

[seatownmedia]

Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, on the network that refused to run much of the impeachment proceedings today because the dems were having their way. Look, both CNN/MSNBC and Fox have a great political divide, and both will show coverage to advance their cause. This is too bad in my opinion. What happened to real objective reporting? It is gone, perhaps forever. Sad.

 

[KeithE4]

Look, both CNN/MSNBC and Fox have a great political divide, and both will show coverage to advance their cause. This is too bad in my opinion. What happened to real objective reporting? It is gone, perhaps forever. Sad.

Red meat sells, on radio, TV, and in print. The morons on left and right demand it, and Job One in the broadcasting business is to bring the morons to the advertisers.

Objective reporting is a concept studied in journalism school and forgotten on the job. Want anything close to objective reporting? The VOA and BBC are pretty much all that's left.

 

[TheBigA]

What happened to real objective reporting? It is gone, perhaps forever. Sad.

It's still around. You have to look for it. But sure, the cable news channels are entertainment channels along the lines of MTV and Lifetime.

Bill can be a good reporter. He can also be a talk show host. We'll see what he does with his new show.

 

[davideduardo]

Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, on the network that refused to run much of the impeachment proceedings today because the dems were having their way. Look, both CNN/MSNBC and Fox have a great political divide, and both will show coverage to advance their cause. This is too bad in my opinion. What happened to real objective reporting? It is gone, perhaps forever. Sad.

As a programmer (and as a viewer who switched between the "news" channels today) I think Fox did the best thing. They covered some moments live, and others via highlights. I found the process exceedingly boring, tedious and more. The Fox approach allowed running commentary and discussion or coverage of a few other news subjects at the time.

I ended up with the BBC on by mid-day, as the Thursday election in the UK is vastly more interesting than the verbal cage fighting on The Hill.

What I was reminded of the most by the combined CNN, MSNBC and Fox coverage is the polarization I saw in two other instances of my life, in other countries. In both cases, the peak of polarization was interrupted by a coup d'etat that silenced everyone, sometimes in drastic ways.

 

[umfan]

This will be a welcome improvement.

 

[Megatron]

Congrats Bill Hemmer on taking Shep's old time slot and breaking news anchor. I didn't watch none of the impeachment hearings as I'd rather watch paint dry than watch those hearings and I can see why the networks didn't air a lot of the hearings last week other than Monday on CBS, ABC, NBC & Fox syndie programs were the better bet than the hearings they chose right just my opinion.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Red meat sells, on radio, TV, and in print. The morons on left and right demand it, and Job One in the broadcasting business is to bring the morons to the advertisers.

Objective reporting is a concept studied in journalism school and forgotten on the job. Want anything close to objective reporting? The VOA and BBC are pretty much all that's left.

Don't forget some PBS Affiliates and NPR affiliates they have good objective reporting too.

 

[wadio]

I would have preferred to see Jon Scott or Trace Gallagher in that slot. Oh well.