Wallace addresses FOX affiliates..
TV Week’s Michelle Greppi writes about Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace addressing Fox Broadcast affiliates and the upcoming coverage of the SOTU…
Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News and Fox Television Stations, ordered up separate State of the Union coverage from 9 p.m. through the Democratic response for Fox Broadcasting. While Brit Hume anchors Fox News Channel’s coverage on cable, Shepard Smith and Mr. Wallace will do the anchoring and analyzing, respectively, for Fox Broadcasting viewers from 9 p.m. through the Democrats’ response.
The Fox affiliates were clearly impressed with Mr. Wallace’s speech-a reaction many of them phoned home as soon as they’d finished lunch.
Mr. Wallace is not kidding himself that they’ll race home and rearrange their Sunday-morning lineups.
He told The Insider: “We’ve upgraded the show. We’ve gotten a higher visibility. We get quoted routinely and as much as, if not more than, any of our competitors.”
This might be a stupid question, but wouldn’t this move be counter productive from a ratings perspective as Fox is essentially competing against another Fox channel?
Comment by anon — January 30, 2006 @ 7:25 pm