Fox News Sunday is aSunday morning talk show that has aired on the broadcastFox network since 1996, as a presentation ofFox News Channel. It is the only regularly scheduled Fox News program carried on the main Fox broadcast network. Hosted byShannon Bream since 2022, the show features interviews with some of the biggest newsmakers in politics from the previous week and "takes on the week's hot political topics", in addition to panel discussions with other Fox contributors and a "power player of the week", which typically is a non-political "feel good" story to end the program.
Shannon Bream (2022–present): Bream, who has been with Fox News since 2007 and was the host ofFox News @ Night for five years, was named the permanent host to replaceChris Wallace on August 11, 2022. She also serves as Fox News' Chief Legal Correspondent. Bream is also the first woman to officially host the program since its airing.[1]
Chris Wallace (2003–2021): Wallace joined Fox News in October 2003, where he replaced Snow as host ofFox News Sunday. Considered by then-Fox presidentRoger Ailes to be "one of the best interviewers in the business", Wallace hosted the show for 18 years, during which time he secured high-profile interviews with key figures from across the political spectrum, includingBarack Obama's first interview on Fox News after he became president.[2] Wallace also interviewed Russian presidentVladimir Putin in 2018, where he received praise for challenging Putin's alleged interference in the 2016 election[3] and asking "why so many" of his political enemies "end up dead".[4] Wallace abruptly announced his departure from Fox News on December 12, 2021, and later announced that he would be joiningCNN's new streaming serviceCNN+ to host his own show.[5] Wallace's CNN+ show was cancelled after the network announced that their new streaming service would be shutting down on April 30 due to low user subscriptions a month after launching.[6] Wallace now hosts a talk show forMax along with a new show for CNN on Sunday nights.[7]
The program began on April 28, 1996,[8]5+1⁄2 months prior to the launch of the network's sister cable news networkFox News Channel. Because Fox News was still building out its studio facilities, it aired during that time from historic Washington venues until Fox News Channel launched and the news operation's Washington bureau was opened. The show was the first network news show to stream live on the Internet. The show was also the first to incorporate live user commentary. Users posted on an Internet BBS and the Internet Producer moderated by choosing and posting the comments in the screen's lower third. The show airs live at 9:00 a.m.Eastern Time, although many Fox stations can choose to broadcast it at a later time slot. The program is also rebroadcast on Fox News Channel the same day at 2:00 p.m ET and 2:00 a.m ET[9]
An audio-only broadcast of the program is also carried on a number of radio stations. Most of these stations are owned byiHeartMedia (the former Clear Channel Communications), the largest radio station group that runs the division'sFox News Radio newscasts, along withWCSP-FM (C-SPAN Radio) in the Washington area and over the Internet, as part of its weekly audio airings of the major Sunday morning talk shows. In August 2008,Fox News Sunday began to be produced inhigh definition.[10]
The first minutes of the broadcast runs down the day's headlines, since Fox (unlike theBig Three television networks), does not have a conventional nationalmorning news program that leads intoFox News Sunday. Additionally, a limited number of Fox's affiliates havelocal news programs leading into it. For the rest of the first half of the show, the host interviews news makers from the prior week.
During the second half of the show, the host introduces a panel of four pundits to speak about the political impact of the news. Regular members of the panel include the following people:
Jason Chaffetz, former Utah congressman, Fox News Contributor
The program ends with a short segment focusing on a "Power Player of the Week", usually a short, non-political "feel good" story about a person who has made a significant contribution to society.[11]
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