According to the Fox News website, Uma Pemmaraju is scheduled to host Fox News Live this coming Sunday, starting at 7:00 AM Pacific Live. She'll likely host the first half-hour solo, then co-pilot the next 60 minutes with Eric Shawn.
Here's a chance to see a talented professional like Uma at work.
Looks like we have seen the last of Kiran Chetry on the Fox News Channel. Negotiations between Fox News and the erstwhile female headliner of the weekend version of Fox & Friends (as well as being a regular on Fox & Friends 1st , according to a report on Mediabistro's TV Newser web site had broken down.
Here is a PDF file of the letter from Fox News Legal and Business Affairs vice-president Dianne Brandi.
Maybe the FNC Brian Trust should consider putting Uma Pemmaraju in the center chair. If not Uma, how 'bout bringing back Donna Fiducia?
UPDATE: Kiran Chetry has jumped to CNN. She was filling in Friday morining for Soledad O'Brien on American Morning.
UPDATE #2: She has now officially joined CNN.
REPLACEMENT: Fox News has hired Courtney Friel, who has been with Court TV, local stations in San Diego and Palm Springs, and has a BA in Political Science and Broadcast Journalism.
She's also modeled in Maxim magazine.
She's filling the center chair this weekend on Fox & Friends.
That's right, sports fans. A one-time model in a men's magazine becoming, at least for the weekend, one of the hosts of FNC's morning program.
Are they nuts?
Apparently, the Brain Trust of FNC could not find swimsuit pics in men's magazines of Lauren Green, Molly Henneberg, Brigitte Quinn, Alisyn Camerota, Uma Pemmaraju, or Laurie Dhue.
Beginning this coming Saturday and Sunday, Geraldo At Large will be airing at 5:00PM Pacific Time on the Fox News Channel.
Here are some changes coming up as far as the weekday programming at Fox News Channel is concerned--all times Pacific:
Bill Hemmer (moving from 9AM weekdays) will be hosting the 6-8AM timeslot along with Megyn Kelly, with the two-hour block to be titled America's Newsroom.
E.D. Hill is moving from 7AM to 8AM.
Jon Scott is moving from 6AM to 9AM.
Those two hours would carry the Fox News Live label.
Programming from 10AM afterwards will remain intact.
Happy New Year from all of us at Fox News Channel, America's Newsroom!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
From All Of Us At Fox News Channel, America's Newsroom!
On this past Sunday, December 3, Uma Pemmaraju hosted a 90-minute block of Fox News Live, piloting solo the first 30 minutes, then splitting the next hour with Eric Shawn. Perhaps someone at FNC DID listen. Great job, Uma!
That's right, Fox News Channel's very own Uma Pemmaraju substituted today for Martha MacCallum, hosting The Live Desk. It was Uma's first hosting assignment in 4 1/2 months. That's Uma, hosting The Live Desk on Friday, December 1, 2006.
What Fox News has done in recent months with Uma Pemmaraju is nothing short of scandalous, and this is an outrage and a disgrace. Why won't they let this talented journalist host ANY programming on FNC? Is she currently working there without a contract---or has she been notified that her contract isn't being renewed? It seems that Uma is now being treated at Fox News as if she were a parasite. It appears that the Fox News Brain Trust is willing to win at all costs---even to the career detriment of some of its' on-air talent, such as Uma. Could Uma soon be going the way (evidently) of Carol Iovanna and Donna Fiducia?
A Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Fox News Channel, America's Newsroom!!!
Here is Bob Sellers, now with WTTG-TV, Washington DC, hosting Fox News Channel's late night election night coverage (November 3, 2004) with Uma Pemmaraju.
Bob Sellers, who until recently was an anchorman on Fox News Channel, has joined News Corporation-owned (and former DuMont) station WTTG-TV, channel 5 in Washington, DC as morning news anchorman.
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the launching of the Fox News Channel.
This coming Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of the launching of the Fox News Channel, and on Sunday, there is a special program commemorating FNC's 10 years on the air, hosted by Chris Wallace and Martha MacCallum, scheduled to air a 5:00 PM Pacific Time. Subject, of course, to major breaking news.
Here is Gretchen Carlson, E.D. Hill's successor on Fox & Friends.
Gretchen Carlson, who had hosted the two-hour Fox News Live block formerly warmed over by Brigitte Quinn is joining the cast of Fox & Friends this coming Monday. She is, in effect, swapping dayparts with E.D. Hill, who had been one of the hosts of F&F since the show's beginnings in 1998. E.D. will, beginning this Monday as well, be seen anchoring Fox News Live from 7-9AM Pacific Time. Remember that back in 1998 and 1999, E.D. hosted FNL's forerunner, Fox News Now.
Beginning Monday, September 25, Jane Skinner will begin her new regular hosting assignment as she replaces Martha MacCallum as anchorwoman for the 11AM to 12 Noon Pacific Time hour of Fox News Live. For Jane, it is a new hosting assignment that has been long in coming. As for Martha, she will host a new show on that same date, starting at 10Am Pacific Time entitled The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, which in turn, is replacing DaySide, whose two headliners, Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy, are set to host a new midmorning show starting early next year on Fox owned-and-operated televsion stations. Some might say that DaySide never really recovered from last year's departure of Linda Vester, who left the show to go on extended maternity leave. They should have given that show to Uma Pemmaraju and/or Donna Fiducia instead of two teenagers masquerading as adults.
Fox News unveiled its' redesigned web site today. I actually liked the old design better. What happeded to the promo photos of the on-air talent? Have the brain trust taken them down? Any comments from the proverbial Peanut Gallery?
Does anyone out there have any idea what has happened to Donna Fiducia and Carol Iovanna?
