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Variety Story on FOX News Lineup Change Quotes Prof. Jeff McCall '76

Variety Story on FOX News Lineup Change Quotes Prof. Jeff McCall '76

October 26, 2017

Next week's introduction of two new FOX News Channel shows hosted by women -- Laura Ingraham and Shannon Bream -- is the subject of a Variety story today which includes comments from several media analysts, including DePauw University's Jeffrey M. McCall.

"I think FOX News Channel might be striking ratings gold" with the lineup change, says McCall, professor of communication (media studies) at DePauw. He predicts Ingraham's style "will be more conversational" than FOX's Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, and that Bream's program will be heavier on news than interviews.

Brian Steinberg writes, "Executives likely hope Ingraham’s arrival on Monday along with the addition of Shannon Bream at 11 p.m. -- the first time a live show will air regularly on FOX News in that time slot -- will cap a flurry of schedule changes that have been made since the controversial departure of Bill O’Reilly in April. As part of the shifts, each weeknight on FOX will be full of live programming, said Meade Cooper, senior vice president of primetime programming at FOX News Channel."

Read the complete story at the publication's website.

Jeff McCall, author of the book Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences, is a former journalist and 1976 graduate of DePauw where he was a Rector Scholar and speech (communication) major and worked on student radio station WGRE, which he now serves as faculty adviser. McCall earned a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.

The professor has been cited in stories by more than 100 American newspapers -- including the New York Times and Washington Post -- in articles covering media matters.  McCall recently wrote a column for The Hill on Megyn Kelly's new NBC program and  discussed federal regulations that limit media ownership. His column on misunderstandings of the First Amendment appeared in newspapers across America.

Source: Variety

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