Fox starts streaming service to enhance TV channel
NEW YORK — The new streaming service Fox Nation that launches Tuesday is aimed at people who don’t think Fox News Channel offers enough opinion.
Fox is becoming the latest television news operation to stake out digital turf. Rather than an attempt to seek out young cord-cutters, Fox Nation is a subscriptionbased service designed to complement Fox News Channel.
The bulk of its original offerings will post between 9 a.m. and the TV prime-time hours. While Fox Nation will offer video on demand at all hours, the intent is not to compete with FNC’s most popular opinionbased programs “Fox & Friends” and the evening lineup with Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Daily programming will emphasize shortform commentary from conservative hosts, many of whom Fox viewers are familiar with. Tomi Lahren offers “Final Thoughts” on the news at dinnertime. Britt McHenry and Tyrus anchor a regular show called “UN-PC.” Andrew Napolitano has a regular morning show. Each morning the service will highlight what Fox’s prime-time hosts said the night before, in a program described as a lesssnarky “Talk Soup,” as well as full- show streams for people who miss them on TV.
Ingraham will cohost a program with Raymond Arroyo, one of her primetime show’s regular guests. Fox Nation has Doocy promised Hannity and Carlson’s involvement, but their roles haven’t been announced.
The last new program at 7 p.m. each day will be a trivia game show hosted by comic Tom Shillue.
“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy will have a show tied to a cookbook he’s released. Dana Perino will have a book club highlighting new releases. Morning co-host Brian Kilmeade, a history Perino buff, is hosting “What Makes America Great,” a show in which he will travel to places like Mount Rushmore and Andrew Jackson’s home, The Hermitage, to tell stories.
“We are so consumed in the elections, who’s winning and who’s losing and who’s doing what to whom,” Kilmeade said. “Maybe we can remember when we were just formulating, what brought us together Kilmeade back them.”
The service will also livestream video of Kilmeade’s radio show, which begins minutes after he steps off the “Fox & Friends” set.
Fox Nation is also building a library of documentary programs, including shows on familiar conservative talking points like Chappaquiddick, Whitewater, Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearings, Robert Bork’s failed Supreme Court nomination and Gregg Jarrett’s theories on an attempt to “frame” Donald Trump.