'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace to join CNN's streaming service (2024)

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But with a contract that pays Wallace more than $6 million a year, CNN was highly motivated to find room for the host's show, which will air Sunday nights on CNN starting this fall, as well as appearing on HBO Max, the primary streaming services of Warner Bros. Discovery.

As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years. “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”

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It was later announced that Wallace had been hired by CNN to host a new program for its streaming service CNN+, which launched in April 2022.

Lorraine Martin Smothers

Chris Wallace / Spouse (m. 1997)

Laura Ingraham's pay-per-show on the Fox Business Network (FBN) and/or FOX News Channel is not made public. However, it is widely known that Laura Ingraham is one of FOX News' highest-paid personalities, reputedly taking home $15–20 million a year from her multiple jobs there.

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Blitzer is also a successful author, having written several books on current events and politics. He has anchored major events such as the 9/11 attacks. He is one of the highest-paid hosts on CNN, earning a fixed salary of $10 million with an additional $1 million as a bonus, according to Forbes.

Fox News is owned by Fox Media which is owned by Fox Corporation. The primary shareholders of Fox Corporation are Vanguard (6.4%), BlackRock (5.4%), and Dodge & Cox (4.8%). Overall, 56% of shares are controlled by financial institutions (559). CNN is owned by Warner Bros Discovery.

CHRIS WALLACE: Let me be clear from the jump. I like Taylor Swift, although I prefer her earlier songs like You Belong With Me to some of her more recent stuff. And I understand she has a huge cultural and economic force. But when TIME magazine this week named her its Person of the Year, I thought, oh, please.

Wallace had two children with his first wife, Norma Kaphan. Their younger son, Chris, is also a journalist. Their elder son, Peter, died at age 19 in a mountain-climbing accident in Greece in 1962.

Kristin Anne Fisher (born July 29, 1983) is an American journalist. She was a television news presenter and White House correspondent for Fox News from 2015 to 2020, and in 2021 joined CNN as its Space & Defense correspondent.

What channel is Chris Wallace's show on? ›

The Chris Wallace Show | CNN. Chris Wallace welcomes the country's best reporters and influential commentators to deliver an insightful and provocative discussion of the week's biggest stories.

T'yanna Wallace's efforts have borne fruit in The Biggie Experience. On her father's 52nd birthday, the museum hosted a unique and intimate celebration at the museum, offering food, drinks, photo-ops, art, and hip-hop. This event proves that she is adept at and committed to preserving her father's legacy.

Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on May 21, 1972, the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents. His mother, Voletta Wallace, was a preschool teacher, while his father, Selwyn George Latore, was a welder and politician.

Her first husband was Dick Smothers, the famous actor, and comedian. He and his brother Tommy were best known for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Wallace was married to him for over a decade, before getting engaged to Wallace in the same year that she divorced Smothers.

Top CNN earners include prime-time anchor Anderson Cooper, who makes an estimated $20 million a year; Wolf Blitzer, who earns about $15 million; Jake Tapper, who pulls in more than $8.5 million; and Chris Wallace, who makes about $8 million, two insiders said.

Cuomo, who was reportedly banking $6 million a year for his “Cuomo Prime Time” show on CNN before he was fired last year, will likely earn just a fraction of that — insiders speculate the figure could be around $1 million — as he starts his new gig at NewsNation this fall, sources told The Post.

While ZipRecruiter is seeing annual salaries as high as $88,000 and as low as $25,500, the majority of Cnn Anchor salaries currently range between $32,500 (25th percentile) to $46,000 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $59,500 annually across the United States.

What is Anderson Cooper's CNN salary? As the host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Cooper earns a chiefly annual salary of $12 million. Cooper embarked on his journalism career after graduating from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree, studying political science and international relations.