Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly is moving over to NBC News, according a press release from her upcoming employer.
Kelly will anchor a one-hour daytime show which will air Monday through Friday. She will also anchor a Sunday “evening news magazine show” and be featured as a political and special events contributor across the network.
Kelly tweeted:
Details of Kelly’s two new shows will be released in the coming months.
Left-wing and Democrat-aligned media reporters with inside sources at similarly politicized NBC broke the news on Tuesday.
Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times wrote that Kelly was “wooed” by NBC News chairman Andrew Lack:
The NBC News chairman, Andrew Lack, wooed Ms. Kelly away from Fox News by offering her a triple role in which she will host her own daytime news and discussion program, anchor an in-depth Sunday night news show and take regular part in th network’s special political programming and other big-even coverage.
Kelly, 46, is a 12-year Fox News veteran and currently holds the second-highest ratings at the network, trialing only Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor, which airs right ahead of The Kelly File. The superstar reportedly took in a cool $15 million from Fox in 2016, notes the Times.
Kelly cemented her name in news media in 2015 as a moderator for the first Republican primary presidential debate. Asking a question concerning now-President-elect Donald Trump’s past public behavior with women, the host set off a Trump fuse. Trump targeted Kelly with the now-infamous “blood coming out of her wherever” remark, which some construed as a sexist attack. The real estate mogul also classified Kelly as a “bimbo” via Twitter.
In July, Kelly claimed then-Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes had sexually harassed her, joining the internal investigation set off by former Fox host Gretchen Carlson. Kelly said Ailes would make sexually suggestive remarks and unwanted advances to her, as noted in her newly-released Settle for More.