Elisabeth Hasselbeck is leaving "The View" to join Fox News' morning show, "Fox & Friends," the New York Post's Page Six reported Tuesday nighttime.
The news, which New York Times media news hound Brian Stelter likewise wrote about Twitter, comes numerous months after Hasselbeck was initially supposed to be leaving ABC's as far back as anyone can remember tenured daytime syndicated program. She will join "Fox & Friends" in "mid-September," the report says.
Stelter said that Wednesday will be Hasselbeck's a day ago on "The View," carrying her extensive residency there to a precipitous close. The show is living out a just about complete upgrade; by mid-2014, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Hasselbeck will all have left.
Fox News head Roger Ailes issued an explanation about the news, adage, "Elisabeth's warm and captivating identity made her a star on 'the View.' She has turned out to be a top notch conversationalist and I am sure she will make an incredible expansion to our recently auspicious morning establishment."
Gretchen Carlson, who at present has "Fox & Friends" with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, will steerage an one-hour daytime customize starting in right on time fall, consistent with Page Six. It's conceivable that Carlson will assume control in excess of one of the two hours long ago had by Megyn Kelly, who will have a primetime show on Fox News when she comes back from maternity take off.
Despite the fact that it comes as something of an astonishment, the move makes an extraordinary arrangement of sense for everybody included. Carlson, who has been supposed to have plotted for a higher profile on Fox News, will get her own particular show. Hasselbeck, who has been the house progressive on "The View" for a long time, will move to a system whose political perspectives match immaculately with her own particular and whose less-than-highbrow approach to the news dovetails with her daytime encounter.
Additionally, she is a tried name and will present to her own particular form of star power to the show, and to the more extensive system. She is likewise liable to make normal presence on primetime demonstrates like Bill O'reilly's and Sean Hannity's.
All eyes will be on "The View" Wednesday to perceive how her flight is took care of. The clearly sudden nature of the passageway could infer some behind-the-scenes strains.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/elisabeth-hasselbeck-fox-news-view-page-six_n_3569822.html
