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Fox News, Known for Opinion Shows, Gets Ratings Boost From Breaking July Headlines
Fox News Channel saw July ratings boosted by news coverage of outsize events, as well as its usual array of opinion shows
Yes, that was Baier and co-anchor Martha MacCallum anchoring President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address last Wednesday night, offering some news analysis of his decision to step down after his current term before ceding the screen to regular 8 p.m. opinion host Jesse Watters. And while Fox News has taken presidential speeches before and given Baier and MacCallum primetime roosts for Election Night and other occasions, it feels like the network is keeping a wider eye on the potential for breaking headlines. Bream was poised, says Jay Wallace, president and executive editor of Fox News Media, “knowing that we didn’t have a VP nominee at that point, even though Trump was making ti seem like he wouldn’t do anything during that event.”
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