Jeanine Pirro Named Co-host of The Five With Liberal Seat to Rotate Between Harold Ford Jr, Geraldo Rivera, and Jessica Tarlov
13 January 2022 - 3:42AM
Business Wire
FOX News Channel’s (FNC) The Five has added Jeanine Pirro as
full-time show co-host along with a rotation of Harold Ford Jr.,
Geraldo Rivera, and Jessica Tarlov as the co-hosts for the liberal
seat, announced Suzanne Scott, CEO of FOX News Media. The moves
will take place effective January 24th.
In making the announcement, Ms. Scott said, “The Five continues
to be a beloved show by the American audience. Each of the co-hosts
are accomplished and insightful talent with diverse opinions and
terrific chemistry who will certainly help drive this ensemble
program going forward.”
Pirro, Ford, Rivera and Tarlov will co-host alongside powerhouse
homegrown stars Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino and Jesse Watters. The
Five has ruled the timeslot for a decade as the number one show in
both cable and all of cable news at 5 PM/ET. In the most recent 4th
Quarter of 2021, The Five dominated with 3.3 million total viewers
and second overall in the 25-54 demo with 481,000 — the first time
ever in cable news history that a non-primetime program achieved
this milestone for a full quarter. The smash hit also topped all
daytime and primetime programming on CNN and MSNBC for the entire
year of 2021, delivering the second largest audience in cable news
with 2.9 million viewers and 423,000 in the 25-54 demo, again
making it the only non-primetime show to rank among the top five
programs in the genre while notching its second highest ranking in
the show’s history.
Judge Pirro has substitute co-hosted The Five since 2020.
She joined the network in 2006 as a legal analyst and began hosting
her weekend program Justice with Judge Jeanine in 2011, which has
been the top-rated program in its Saturday evening 9 PM/ET time
slot throughout its 11-year run. Pirro will relinquish hosting the
program effective January 22nd to meet the demands of being
elevated to a live five-day a week show, and a new weekend line-up
replacing both Justice and Watters’ World (vacated by Jesse Watters
moving to weeknights at 7 PM/ET) will be announced at a later date.
She will continue hosting Castles USA on FOX News Media’s streaming
service FOX Nation, where she dives into the rich history of iconic
castles all around the country.
Prior to joining FNC, Pirro was the host of a syndicated weekday
court show distributed by Warner Brothers, for which she won an
Emmy award. Her legal career spans over 30 years, during which she
was elected Westchester County District Attorney for three
consecutive terms. She was the first woman to prosecute murder
cases and started the first domestic violence unit in a
prosecutor’s office in the country as Westchester’s assistant
district attorney. In 1990, Pirro was elected as the first woman to
serve as a Westchester County Court judge. She was appointed by
then-Governor George Pataki to chair the New York State Commission
on Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board in 1997, whose research
assisted in passing increased protection for domestic violence
victims.
Newly minted liberal co-host Harold Ford Jr. joined FOX
News Media as a contributor in 2021 and guest co-hosted The Five
throughout the last year. Ford served as a former democrat member
of Congress for five terms from 1997–2007, representing Tennessee's
ninth congressional district with stints on the House Budget
Committee and the House Committee on Financial Services. In
addition to The Five, Ford is currently the vice chairman and
executive vice president of PNC Bank’s Corporate and Institutional
banking business and is the chairman and CEO of Empowerment &
Inclusion Capital Corporation, a SPAC with the purpose-driven
mission of acquiring diverse businesses or those focused on
promoting economic and societal inclusion. He is a graduate of the
University of Michigan Law School and the University of
Pennsylvania.
Geraldo Rivera will also serve as a rotating liberal
co-host while continuing to helm COPS: All Access on FOX Nation, a
behind-the-scenes look at each episode examining the risk that law
enforcement officers face every day. He will also continue
appearing on various programs as the correspondent-at-large. Rivera
joined the network in 2001 as a war correspondent and has received
more than 170 journalism awards, including the George Foster
Peabody Award, three national and seven local Emmys, two
Columbia-Dupont awards and two Scripps Howard Journalism Awards.
His journalism career spans more than 50 years having worked for
WABC-TV in New York as well as ABC News, NBC News, CNBC and
launching his own syndicated talk show.
Liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov joined the network as a
contributor in 2017 and has appeared on numerous programs,
including The Five after serving as a frequent guest on various FNC
shows since 2014. She currently serves as the Vice President of
Research and Consumer Insight for Bustle Digital Group (BDG) and
will return from maternity leave to begin the co-hosting rotation
in March. Prior to this, she was a senior strategist with Schoen
Consulting, where she advised domestic and international clients on
messaging strategies for more than five years and worked as a
democratic pollster. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in
History, Tarlov holds two master’s degrees in Political Science and
Public Policy as well as a Ph.D. in Government from the London
School of Economics and Political Science.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service delivering breaking news as well as political and business
news. The number one network in basic cable, FNC has been the most
watched television news channel for nearly 20 consecutive years.
According to Nielsen Media Research, FNC currently attracts more
than 50% of the cable news viewing audience. Notably, a 2021
Nielsen/MRI Fusion report showed the network garners the largest
independent audience in cable news, while FNC’s primetime hours
deliver the second largest liberal audience in cable news.
Additionally, a 2021 Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index
report stated FOX News leads the news industry in both brand
loyalty, engagement, and expectations. Owned by FOX Corp, FNC is
available in 80 million homes and dominates the cable news
landscape, routinely notching the top 10 programs in the genre.
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