TVNewser has learned beginning Monday Live Desk with Martha MacCallum will be expanded to two hours, airing from 1-3pmET. MacCallum will also be getting a co-anchor and a new set. Trace Gallagher joins as co-anchor, while continuing to fill in for Shepard Smith on Studio B and Fox Report. Also starting Monday Live Desk will originate from the FNC newsroom.
America’s Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined. Hill has been with FNC since 1998. She co-anchored Fox & Friends for several years before moving to the 11amET hour, then launching America’s Pulse.
Live Desk debuted in September 2006 replacing DaySide, which morphed into Fox network’s The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet.
> More: TVDecoder’s Brian Stelter says the FNC changes will also effect the the network’s 5pmET hour, once occupied by John Gibson and Heather Nauert.