Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has announced that broadcast journalist Megyn Kelly will return to the network with a new live talk show.
What’s going on: “The Megyn Kelly Show” will premiere on SiriusXM Triumph channel 111 on September 7 and will air weekdays from 12 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET.
Kelly’s thoughts on the day’s top headlines, as well as listener calls and Kelly’s distinctive trailblazing interviews with prominent cultural and political newsmakers, will be featured on the new show.
Subscribers to SiriusXM can watch videos of the broadcast on the SXM App and social media sites. “The Megyn Kelly Show” will be available on all major podcast platforms, including Pandora, Stitcher, and others.
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Why Does It Matter? Kelly rose to national popularity after joining Fox News (NASDAQ: FOX) in 2004 as a reporter and eventually becoming the host of her own evening talk show. During the 2016 presidential election, she was the focus of media attention for her heated arguments with Donald Trump over his inappropriate remarks about particular women.
Kelly left Fox in 2017 to join Comcast Corporation’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBC News, where she hosted a segment on the long-running “Today” morning show, but she came under fire for comments she made in October 2018 in which she said that wearing blackface for a Halloween costume “was okay as long as you were dressing up as like a character.” Three days after she made her statements, NBC canceled her show “Megyn Kelly Today,” and her contract was terminated less than three months later.
Kelly was primarily absent from network television after leaving NBC, focusing on independently creating and distributing a podcast under the name “The Megyn Kelly Show.” Beginning Aug. 16, SiriusXM will rebroadcast episodes from this podcast until she makes her debut on the satellite radio network.
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