Will Cain Aims to Bring Freewheeling Video Podcasts to Cable News. Could Others Follow?
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Neil Cavuto held forth at 4 p.m. on Fox News Channel from a New York studio for more than a quarter century, a veteran newscaster who was never afraid to call balls and strikes.
His successor, Will Cain, will lead the hour from a decidedly different venue for cable-news — Dallas, Texas — and probably take a few swings. “The Will Cain Show” debuts Tuesday at 4 p.m.
eastern with what is likely to be a decidedly different look. Fox News has said the program will carry “a signature podcast style,” and Cain acknowledges people looking for the usual cable-news trappings may see something different. “It’s not a sermon, it’s a conversation,” he says of the format, adding: “There’s not the pretense of perfection.
Nothing that I have to say is the world of God. I’m on the ride with everyone else in pursuit of the truth.” If Cain’s new program fares well, there is a sense other traditional TV-news outlets might like to join him on the journey.
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