Bridge Collapse: FNC programming notes…
The bridge collapse news broke in the 7pm hour during The FOX Report. Shep broke the news and continued anchoring through the following hour, pre-empting The O’Reilly Factor. Hannity & Colmes and On the Record with Greta will be live and in their usual time slots this evening. Smith will be back on air at 11pm tonight and will continue until midnight. FNC will continue with its live coverage of the devestation until 2am/et. FOX & Friends will start at 5am/et Thursday morning. F&F Co-host Gretchen Carlson is actually a MN native and she called into H&C tonight. Tomorrow, Bill Hemmer, Shepard Smith and Greta Van Susteren will all anchor from the area of the collapse, while about seven FNC correspondents will be live on the scene to cover the tragedy as well.
UPDATE: Trace Gallagher will be on at 11 and not Shepard Smith. Smith is preparing to leave for Minnesota to report from the scene tomorrow…
I said that Shep would be back at 11!
I bet tomorrow Fox will have on the “death” music. You know the one they had on during the post VT shooting coverage and at the death of Reagan etc..
Comment by craig gordon — August 1, 2007 @ 10:05 pm
gotta flood the zone don’t we? time to move on already. I’m sure greta will have to chime in something about paris hilton being pregnant.
Comment by Harry — August 1, 2007 @ 10:06 pm
As details still have not emerged, this is still a breaking news story. I think that this tragedy deserves the same reverent coverage as any tragic event anywhere in the world. I would expect ALL the networks to have extensive coverage of this story.
Comment by Currently Available — August 1, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
Devastated region? Get a grip. Outside of the metro area this is not a big story.
Comment by Steve — August 1, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Point made. I fixed that.
Comment by Spud — August 1, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
Stop being such an anus, Harry.
Comment by Amused — August 1, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
I know you’re just “cable” news, Spud, but someone should note the footnote quality coverage on the rerun-dinosaur-evening news here on the west coast. Cable news shined tonight.
Comment by erljr — August 2, 2007 @ 12:14 am
erljr: Agree.
And the local left coast newscasts were not any better.
Comment by Ira — August 2, 2007 @ 12:35 pm