# Chris Wallace Leaving Fox for CNN+ Streaming Service **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948 "2021-12-12T19:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/1 "2021-12-12T19:36:01Z")
[Chris Wallace](https://variety.com/t/chris-wallace/) is leaving Fox News Channel, he announced on his program Sunday morning, and will join the [CNN](https://variety.com/t/cnn/) Plus streaming-video outlet, a move that abruptly sunders the cable-news outlet’s connection with one of its most recognized and independent journalists. Wallace delivered the news himself, in the last minutes of his “Fox News Sunday,” which he has anchored for nearly two decades on the Fox Corporation-owned outlet. “I want to try something new, to go beyond politics to all the things I’m interested in. I’m ready for a new adventure. And I hope you’ll check it out,” said Wallace. The words will be the last he utters on the program. ([Chris Wallace Leave Fox News Channel, Joins CNN Plus - Variety](https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/chris-wallace-fox-news-channel-departure-1235131514/)) > **[Chris Wallace leaves Fox News for a CNN streaming show: ‘I’m ready for a new...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/12/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-news-sunday/)** > > The veteran anchor’s abrupt departure is a blow to Fox, which often pointed to his tough, nonpartisan interviewing style as proof of the network’s journalistic bona fides. > **[Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News as Right-Wing Hosts Hold Sway (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/business/media/chris-wallace-fox-news.html)** > > The “Fox News Sunday” anchor had been with the network for 18 years, and often dissented from the views of his pro-Trump colleagues. So is there anyone left there who isn’t 100% pro-Trump? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/2 "2021-12-12T19:43:36Z")
That leaves Faux News without a host that will repeat a question to a Republican who refuses to answer the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/3 "2021-12-12T19:48:09Z")
Bill Hemmer and John Roberts are both straight news reporters. There are others as well, but I don’t see much of Fox News, so I don’t know how fair they are. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/4 "2021-12-12T20:34:11Z")
Given that CNN just fired Chris Cuomo, that leaves his slot wide open. I wonder why Chris Wallace didn’t take that high profile slot and instead is going to a streaming-only program that’s certainly much lower profile (and will be watched by not many). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/5 "2021-12-12T22:31:43Z")
This isn’t CNN, but CNN+, a new streaming service. It’s not clear why people would pay for it, given that the free CNN is shedding viewers like a dog sheds fur in spring. Maybe people will pay extra for a service free of sexual predators. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/6 "2021-12-13T01:48:08Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I wonder why Chris Wallace didn’t take that high profile slot and instead is going to a streaming-only program that’s certainly much lower profile (and will be watched by not many). Any number of reasons. Feel free to discuss: - Chris Wallace doesn’t want to take on a one-hour, five day a week program - CNN doesn’t see Wallace as a fit for that program because he’s (take your pick) 74 years old, male, white, more of a news/interviewer-type than an opinion-type, etc. - CNN fears viewers will reject Wallace because of his association with Fox News - The CNN+ gig is only temporary while CNN and Wallace determine whether they’re a good match - CNN has big plans for the former Cuomo hour, but they aren’t fully formed yet, and they don’t want to throw Wallace into the slot before CNN knows what they want to do with it, and risk the blowback if they were to later demote him. Having some knowledge of the TV news business I think we can narrow the list down to - Chris Wallace is 74 years old. Everything else is a factor, but you don’t rebuild your prime time schedule around that. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/7 "2022-03-27T14:45:17Z")
An interview about why he left: > " I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox." > > “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.” > **[Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became ‘Unsustainable’ (Published 2022)](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html)** > > As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years. Or if you have paywall problems: [https://archive.ph/LfLF6](https://archive.ph/LfLF6) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/8 "2022-04-12T16:57:04Z")
> **[CNN+ struggles to lure viewers in its early days, drawing fewer than 10,000...](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/12/cnn-plus-low-viewership-numbers-warner-bros-discovery.html)** > > The paltry audience casts doubt on the future of CNN+ following the recently completed combination of Discovery and WarnerMedia So it sounds like they may shut it down. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/9 "2022-04-12T17:05:39Z")
Given that I can tune into CNN on cable when I want, or go to their public website, why would I want to pay for the streaming service? Who exactly did they think would do so? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-wallace-leaving-fox-for-cnn-streaming-service/955948/10 "2022-04-21T16:57:36Z")
The management of Warner Bros Discovery agree that there is little value in CNN+, given that they announced they’re shutting down the service after only three weeks.