Fox Business announced that two of its prime-time shows will be suspended to provide additional coverage of the coronavirus.
Trish Regan Primetime and Kennedy, the regularly scheduled 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. EDT shows, will not be on the air moving forward, and there is no current timetable for how long their shows will be suspended.
“Fox Business’s prime-time programs Trish Regan Primetime and Kennedy, which is hosted by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, will both be on hiatus until further notice,” a network spokesperson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Friday evening. “Due to the demands of the evolving pandemic crisis coverage, we are deploying all resources from both shows for staffing needs during critical market hours. Fox Business will run long-form programming in prime time for the foreseeable future.”
It remains unclear what the replacement programming will be.
Regan, who has been at the network since 2015, made headlines earlier this week when she claimed that Democrats and certain members of the media were using the coronavirus as a mechanism to remove President Trump from office.
“This is yet another attempt to impeach the president,” she said and later added, “[Democrats] told us how much they crave a recession to get rid of Donald Trump.”
Trump declared a national emergency on Friday as confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19 spread across the country. There have been at least 2,110 cases in 48 states, and 48 people have died thus far.
