Fox News Puts Its Midterm Election Night on Every Screen
Fox News will cover the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3, across its television channels, its streaming service, its website and social media at the same time. The midterms will decide who controls Congress, and the network says it will offer live results, race calls and around-the-clock coverage.
On television, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network will simulcast Election Night coverage. A simulcast means both channels air the same programme at once. Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will lead the coverage, and Trace Gallagher will take the overnight hours, according to Variety.
The bigger change is behind the scenes. Variety reports that Fox News is debuting new control rooms for Election Night. A control room is the hub where producers decide what goes on air. These rooms let producers send the same material to TV, streaming, digital and social platforms without rebuilding it for each one.
Streaming viewers have their own options. FOX One has launched an interactive midterm hub that combines live Fox News coverage with local results and a feature called "Ask FOX." The Fox News app is adding a "Midterms 2026" tab with an interactive county-level map and a feature called "Election HQ."
Fox News users will also be able to ask an AI-powered chatbot questions about specific races and voting trends. A chatbot is a program that answers typed questions in plain language. Its answers will draw on the outlet's own reporting, Variety reports. It is the first time Fox News has offered this.
Fox Nation and Fox News Digital will stream a show called "Ruthless Live!" from a bar in Washington, D.C. The co-hosts are Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook and Shashank Tripathi.
The push comes at a difficult moment for the network's audience. Variety reported that Fox News ratings fell 27% in October 2026, losing more than a quarter of its overall viewing audience ahead of the midterms. Ratings measure how many people watch a channel, and they are used to set advertising prices. Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox, has acknowledged that the company is working through "viewer fatigue," which he linked to a downturn in ratings in the third quarter and in October.
For a viewer on Tuesday night, the results will be available on a television in the living room, an app on a phone, or a laptop with a county map open. The same race can now be followed on several screens at once. Whether that draws people back to the big channel is a question the network's ratings will answer in the weeks after the count.
