Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer to Fill Shepard Smith's Former Time Slot

Kimberly Roots

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The afternoon hour on Fox News Channel’s lineup that previously belonged to Shepard Smith now will be anchored by Bill Hemmer, the network announced Monday.

Hemmer’s 3 pm show, titled Bill Hemmer Reports, will premiere on Monday, Jan. 20. He currently co-hosts America’s Newsroom with Sandra Smith from noon to 3 pm on weekdays. A new permanent co-anchor for that broadcast will be named at a later time; rotating co-hosts will join Smith in the interim.

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Hemmer came to the network in 2005 after several years at its competitor, CNN. He has sat at the America’s Newsroom desk since that show launched in 2009.

Shepard — a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, as well as Smith’s Fox News colleagues, including Tucker Carlson — vacated the anchor chair in October after 23 years at Fox News. He made the surprise announcement at the end of his Oct. 11 show.

“Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and begin a new chapter,” Smith later said in a statement at the time. “After requesting that I stay, they graciously obliged. The opportunities afforded this guy from small town Mississippi have been many. It’s been an honor and a privilege to report the news each day to our loyal audience in context and with perspective, without fear or favor. I’ve worked with the most talented, dedicated and focused professionals I know and I’m proud to have anchored their work each day — I will deeply miss them.”

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