A new face will be joining Fox News\u2019 morning show, \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d according to an announcement on the program Thursday morning.
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\nFirst reported by People magazine, the show\u2019s current co-hosts said that Lawrence Jones will be joining the morning line-up.
\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more thrilled today,\u201d Jones told his new morning colleagues, Ainsley Earnhardt and Brian Kilmeade, in addition to fill-in co-host Pete Hegseth. \u201cI started on Fox & Friends when I was 20 \u2014 it was my [first] national TV appearance. At 30, this is the opportunity of the [lifetime].\u201d<\/p>\n
Earnhardt praised Jones effusively, saying: \u201cWe\u2019ve been so proud of you. We\u2019ve watched all of this progress. You\u2019re one of the nicest people. You love the Lord. You love the South, you love Texas, your family. You just fit right in.\u201d
\nGavin Hadden, Fox News\u2019 senior vice president of morning programming, said in a statement: \u201cLawrence has his finger on the pulse of what matters to communities across America and his insight has proved invaluable to the FOX & Friends audience. We look forward to welcoming him to our family as he wakes up America alongside our star co-hosts each morning.\u201d
\nMediaite added: The Saturday night timeslot previously hosted by Jones will be turned over to Brian Kilmeade \u2014 whose show will move back one hour to make way for a new Saturday night edition of Life, Liberty & Levin, hosted by Mark Levin.\u201d
\nLevin\u2019s program will now air at 8 p.m. Eastern on both Saturday and Sunday, according to Fox News. On September 16th, the new Saturday night airing will begin, and further changes to the weekend programming will be made at a later time, the network added.
\n\u201cSince joining the network in 2017, Mark has provided our audience with thought-provoking analysis on America\u2019s core values and their impact on current events,\u201d said Meade Cooper, executive vice president of primetime programming at Fox News, in a statement. \u201cWe are looking forward to expanding his popular show to two nights a week.\u201d
\n\u201cFox News said \u2018Life, Liberty & Levin\u2019 is the highest-rated primetime program in cable news on Sundays, averaging 1.4 million viewers and 104,000 in the 25-54 demographic, the audience most coveted by advertisers,\u201d Variety reported.
\n\u201cLevin is also a host of \u2018The Mark Levin Show,\u2019 one of the nation\u2019s largest syndicated radio programs, which airs on more than 300 stations across the country. Levin served in the Reagan administration, and worked as an associate director of presidential personnel, deputy solicitor of the U.S. Department of Interior, and deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, among other positions,\u201d the outlet added.
\nThe network has been under an increased amount of scrutiny after taking its prime-time star, Tucker Carlson, off the air in the latter part of April.
\nBecause of that decision, Fox has shed a huge portion of its viewers, with many of them having bolted to Newsmax and other conservative outlets.
\nSince Carlson\u2019s departure, weekend hosts Dan Bongino and, most recently, Steve Hilton have either chosen to leave (in Bongino\u2019s case \u2014 after failing to come to terms on a new contract) or have been taken off the air, all of which have led to some major changes on the weekend, especially.
\n\u201cWe are excited to launch a new dynamic weekend line-up that will further solidify our position as the number one cable news network for more than two decades,\u201d Albano said in the release. \u201cWe thank Steve Hilton for his show\u2019s contributions and look forward to continuing to feature his valuable insights across our daytime and prime-time programming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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