Laura Ingraham To Become An FNC News Babe With Her Own Show
Fox Will Try Out Conservative Host Laura Ingraham
By Brian Stelter - (NYTimes)
The Fox News Channel, which has been seeking a new format for the 5 p.m. hour, will place a rotating series of personalities in the time slot beginning next week, including the conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.
Ms. Ingraham, one of the country’s most popular radio hosts, frequently fills in for Bill O’Reilly, and Fox executives appear to be grooming her as a new talent for the network. Other people will also receive trial runs in the time slot.
Fox News Channel is expected to announce the changes later Tuesday. In February the cable network replaced John Gibson, the longtime host of the 5 p.m. hour, with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, two younger anchors who also host a morning show. Mr. Hemmer and Ms. Kelly’s afternoon show, “America’s Election HQ,” covered the primary season. But now, with the party nominees known and two months until the political conventions, there may not be quite as much election news to cover.
The 5 p.m. hour, a transition time between the afternoon and evening on cable news, has seen increased competition in recent months. Fox News, normally the top-rated network in every hour, last week placed third in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet. Last week, as the primary season ended, CNN averaged 235,000 viewers in the demographic, while MSNBC saw 218,000 and Fox saw 198,000.
For the full month of May, “America’s Election HQ” topped CNN and MSNBC, averaging 200,000 demographic viewers compared to 194,000 for CNN and 176,000 for MSNBC.
In another schedule change, the network will expand the 1 p.m. show “The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum” to two hours and add a co-host, Trace Gallagher. Fox has not determined the new role for E.D. Hill, the current 2 p.m. host.
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Congratulations Laura
June 10th, 2008 at 10:06 amcool wish I had a Tommygun.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:13 amI think shes hot.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:13 amGood move. Laura is one of the rare talkshow hosts who is better on TV than on radio. She sounds better on TV. She is also a good conservative and I agree with most of her views. She must feel pretty good being a new mother and now this. What do you think Drill?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:15 amLaura Ingraham’s a “new mother”??
I hadn’t heard that.
Actually, Laura can talk rings around many of FNC’s current harem.
My thunks … I would love to see her AND John Gibson together in that slot.
Talk about “brain trust”!
June 10th, 2008 at 10:19 amAwesome (but I’ll miss her on my dragging my ass drive to work).
June 10th, 2008 at 10:31 amShe adopted a kid from South America. I like Gibson too (on the radio) and his side-kick Angry Rich. I hope Laura replaces that asshole Geraldo (Attention: Roger Ailes).
June 10th, 2008 at 10:43 amShe adopted a kid from South America.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:52 amHope Laura replaces that asshole Geraldo.
I listen to Gibson and Angry Rich on the radio.
Laura rocks!!! and looks good too
Hope she’s able to keep her radio show too, wondered where she’s been the last week or so.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:57 amLaura’s talk show is great - once I saw her on O’ Reilly, I was hooked
HOT and intelligent - what a combo!!! She also seems very down to earth - not one of these self absorbed media types. She will knock em dead on FNC - Go Laura!! 
June 10th, 2008 at 11:02 amHey thats great news. i like Laura Ingraham alot
June 10th, 2008 at 11:21 amShe could have my children…
June 10th, 2008 at 11:27 amEXCELLENT CHOICE FOX!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:55 amSmart, funny, and oh so sexy.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pmLaura’s great, but she needs to get her hands on that gun like she wants or knows how to use it!!! She looks like Mike Dukakis riding around in an Abrams.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pmI have always said Laura Ingraham and Michelle Malkin far more effective talk show hosts on their worst day than O’Reilly is on his best day.
While I like some of O’Reilly’s work, Laura and Michelle are brighter, quicker, tougher (without the bravado) and far more humble.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pmHmmm, she looks better in the Jeep holding the Tommy gun than in the studio.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pmGo figure.