Fox News - By the Numbers Guests and Stories 2025

My apologizes for getting this out later than I had planned. Trump’s decision to send the U.S. military into Venezuela and take Nicolás Maduro into custody threw a bit of a wrench into my scheduling.

We are all holding on for dear life with this administration.

Last year I watched and analyzed a 897 hours of content on Fox News with an additional 92.5 hours of Trump’s many press conferences, announcements and interviews.

• Fox & Friends - 294 epsisodes

• The Five - 250 episodes

• The Ingraham Angle - 86 episodes

• Jesse Watters Primetime - 101 episodes

• Hannity - 100 episodes

• Special Report with Bret Baier - 15 episodes

• Fox News Live - 4 episodes (breaking news weekend show)

• Fox News at Night - 2 episodes

• America Reports - 2 episodes

• The Story with Martha MacCallum - 2 episodes

• The Will Cain Show - 3 episodes

• The Big Weekend Show - 5 episodes

• Special programing (holidays, election, inauguration, etc.) - 32 episodes

• Trump press conferences/gaggles - 103 appearance for a total of 92.5 hours

Top 25 Topics for Fox News for 2025

In the category “Democrats are terrible” the Democrats most discussed were:

• Gov. Gavin Newsom

• Rep. Jasmine Crockett

• Barack and Michelle Obama

• AOC (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

• The Seditious Six (Democratic lawmakers who made a video urging active duty service personnel to avoid following illegal orders)

• Karine Jean-Pierre (switched parties)

• Gov. Tim Walz

• Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita

• Sen. Chuck Schumer

• Mayor Ras J. Baraka (Mayor of Newark, NJ)

Top Ten Topics for the PBS News Hour for 2025

Top Elected Officials

Fox News - Elected Officials by Party

Democrats who appeared on Fox News in 2025 for the shows I covered:

• Rep. Hakeem Jefferies - 2 appearances

• Rep. Ro Khanna - 2 appearances

• Rep. Shuhas Subramanyam - 1 appearance

• Mayor Eric Adams -1 appearance (was a Democrat at the time he appeared)

• Rep. Jasmine Crockett - 1 appearance (questioned by Fox News correspondent inside the Capitol. She answered more than one question which is why she’s included in this list.)

The two elected officials who declared no party affiliation were both mayors.

Government officials/Advisors to Trump

On the PBS News Hour most government officials only appeared once.

• Karoline Leavitt - White House Press Secretary - 4 appearances

• Dr. Marty Makary - Commissioner of FDA - 3 appearances

• Anna Gomez - FCC commissioner - 2 appearances

• Ken Graham - Director of NOAA weather services - 2 appearances

Some notable federal government officials who appeared on the PBS News Hour

• Kristi Noem - Secretary of Homeland Security

• Jeanine Pirro - U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia

• Brendan Carr - Chair of FCC (Author of Project 2025)

• Dr. Mehmet Oz - Admin. for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Top Pundits on Fox News

The PBS News Hour largely does not invite political pundits to appear on its program. The network does include activists, experts, union leaders and academics with varied political points of view. The network included an equal number of Republican and Democratic strategists throughout the year.

PBS did include experts from the following right of center think tanks.

• Manhattan Institute

• American Enterprise Institute

• Tax Foundation

• The Heritage Foundation

• American Compass

• Cato Institute

• Defense Priorities

Some other notable organizations PBS invited experts from multiple times last year include:

• ACLU

• Atlantic Council

• Brookings Institution

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Center for American Progress

• Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Various agencies within the United Nations including the World Food Program and UNICEF

• Human Rights Watch

• Kaiser Family Foundation

• Peterson Institute for International Economics

• The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (pro-Israel)*

• Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (pro-Palestine)*

  • *Both of these organizations are politically moderate. Experts from both think tanks often appeared together while they discussed and debated the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Candidates Running for Office Featured on Fox

Dumbest Stories of the Year on Fox News

Sydney Sweeney’s ad campaigns

On the shows I covered last year, the network dedicated a total of 37 segments on the actress Sydney Sweeney. Most of the stories centered around her advertisement campaign with American Eagle and the double entendre of the phrase ‘good jeans,” or “good genes.”

Some folks on social media thought the ad was promoting white supremacy. Fox News acted as if every American left of center was outraged by the advertisement.

The network also placed excessive coverage on a collaboration the Sweeney had with company called Dr. Squatch. The company featured a limited edition soap that allegedly contained used bath water from the actress.

The runner-up for the dumbest story of the year:

Cracker Barrel changed its logo

The network included 11 full length segments about the controversy.

Some Honorable Mentions from Jesse Watters Primetime

At the end of his program Watters includes short segments about his life. Some of the more memorable segments included:

• Watters almost lost his credit card

• Watters loves the show Love Island

• Don’t drink from straws - a rule for men

• You can also drop people from your life (a two part series)

• Everyone has an agenda!

• Take a bite out of life!

• Try putting your legs up a wall

• Don’t get drunk at office Christmas parties

• Power wash your home

• Dating tips (Watters is married)

• Drying cleaning tips