Fox News on March 26 will air a special edition of its primetime news show The Ingraham Angle focused on education.

The Ingraham Angle Town Hall: Time for Class -- hosted by Laura Ingraham -- will focus on the impact the pandemic has had on Virginia students, teachers, and parents, said the network. Among the topics that will be covered during the special include the challenges of virtual learning and the debate surrounding reopening schools.

The town hall will feature audience-submitted questions as well as additional guests, including former White House senior coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas and Stanford University medical professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, said the network.

Last week’s dueling town halls delivered a more liberal audience to Joe Biden and a slightly more right-leaning cohort to President Trump, according to data from Samba TV.

Samba uses viewing of MSNBC as a stand in for more liberal and more Democratic viewers and viewing of Fox News Channel to identify more conservative and Republican viewers.

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Both town halls generated larger audiences than their predecessors, with Biden’s second being seen by 6.9 million households on ABC, up 291% from his first town hall and Trump being observed by 6.3 million households, up 209%, on a variety of NBCUniversal outlets.

Samba said 2.9 million households watched at least five minutes of both the second Trump and second Biden town hall, even though they mostly aired at the same time.

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In his second town hall, Biden lost a lot of heavy MSNBC viewers, but both he and Trump added some hardcore Fox News viewers, according to Dr. Jeffrey Silverman, director of data science and analytics at Samba TV.

The handful of viewers who watched all four town halls skewed toward heavy MSNBC viewers and medium Fox News viewers.

“In general, cable news viewership is up during October compared to earlier this year. Thus, there are likely more undecided or middle-of-the-road voters watching MSNBC and Fox News now,” said Silverman. “Or, put another way, the audiences of both of those networks have grown in October likely by attracting more Centrists who are potentially undecided. Beyond that, it's hard to use the town hall or debate viewership to say much about undecided voters.”

While making predictions in 2020 can be perilous, Silverman expects viewership to rise for the final debate between Biden and Trump.

“We saw 3-4 times increases in the audiences for both candidates from their first town hall to the second ones. In addition, both town halls had 2-3 times larger audiences than the first presidential debate and the VP debate,” he said. “Based on that trend and the election getting ever closer, I would bet that the next debate will have even higher viewership and that the audience will be a very broad cross-section of the U.S., everyone from party hardliners to swing state undecideds to the Person on the Street curious to see what the final arguments of (or between) the candidates will be.”

TV One will develop a three-part town hall series targeted to Black women voters leading up to election day.

The series, Represent The Vote: Our Voice, Our Future, will be hosted by CNN commentator Karen Finney and will look to tackle various social, economic and political issues impacting Black women voters across the country, according to network officials. The first episode, The Issues: What's at Stake for Black Women and Our Families During This Election, will debut Oct. 22, according to the network.

The second episode, The Intersection of Race and Gender in Politics and the Power of the Black Female Vote, debuts Oct. 29, while the third and final episode -- Post-Election: Where Do We Go From Here?, premieres Nov. 13.

"The current social and political climate demands we support efforts to mobilize the Black vote, especially the power of the black female electorate. It is vital that we utilize our television networks and digital platforms to inform our audience about key ballot issues impacting our community, the core positions and views held by our nation's leaders and by those seeking to hold elected offices up and down the ballot, and the ability for voters to hold elected official accountable for promises made during this critical election," said Michelle Rice, general manager of TV One and CLEO TV in a statement. "The accomplished leaders and social activists participating in the three town hall panels will undoubtedly help viewers be a part of the conversation, be more informed citizens on the key issues in this election cycle and most importantly, to inspire everyone to take the most important action - VOTE!"

NBC continues to get blowback for scheduling Thursday night's (Oct. 15) town hall with President Donald Trump up against ABC's town hall with his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The President backed out of a planned Oct. 15 debate after it was changed to virtual due to his COVID-19 diagnosis.

The latest salvo came from NBC showrunners, past and present, and others in the programming community, who wrote an open letter to NBC brass asking the network to move the debate to another time so that viewers could watch both.

"By agreeing to air his town hall as counterprogramming opposite Vice President Biden’s town hall on ABC, you are enabling the President’s bad behavior while undercutting the Presidential Debate Commission and doing a disservice to the American public," they argued, according to a copy of the letter posted on multiple sites.
 
"We share in the frustration that our event will initially air alongside the first half of ABC’s broadcast with Vice President Biden," said Cesar Conde, chairman of the NBCU News Group. "Our decision is motivated only by fairness, not business considerations. We aired a town hall with Vice President Biden on Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. If we were to move our town hall with President Trump to a later timeslot we would be violating our commitment to offer both campaigns access to the same audience and the same forum. We hope voters will watch both discussions – ours will be available at any time, free and on-demand on YouTube, Peacock and all our digital news platforms."

NBC was under no legal obligation to air a Trump town hall. While broadcasters must provide competing candidates for office equal opportunity to use their airwaves, though only if it has provided airtime to one candidate first, "bona fide news interviews" are exempted.

For his part, the President is dissing his own town hall. According to CNN's Daniel Dale, Trump has said the event is a set-up by NBC and its parent, "CONcast."

Fox News on Sunday (July 19) will premiere a new special that will focus on the civil unrest in America.

Harris Faulkner Presents: The Fight for America will be hosted by Outnumbered and Outnumbered Overtime anchor Harris Faulkner, and will spotlight discussions surrounding the national conversation about race in America and the path forward for the country, said network officials. 

Appearing on the special will be Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), former NFL star Herschel Walker, Fraternal Order of Police Vice President Joe Gamaldi and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, as well as Hannity host Sean Hannity and FNC contributors Dr. Alveda King and Gianno Caldwell.

The special will be Faulkner's fourth in-depth town hall special this year, according to the network. 

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BET Sunday will air a primetime special focusing on the issue of social justice in the wake of the George Floyd killing.

The special, Justice Now: A BET Town Hall, will be hosted by journalist Marc Lamont Hill and will feature such participants as Stacey Abrams, anti-racism activist and teacher Jane Elliot, activist and co-founder of Campaign Zero Brittany Packnett, Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, Princeton University Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American studies Imani Perry, and Rutgers University scholar and activist Brittney Cooper, said the network. 

The Town Hall comes on the heels of the network's June 2 Justice Now: A BET News Special as well as a scheduled June 19 BET News Presidential Forum in which the network has invited both President Donald Trump and Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden to discuss issues and concerns of the African-American community, according to network officials. 

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Fox News has snagged another big name for its virtual Town Halls — OK, probably the biggest, President Donald Trump, an event that dovetails with the President's suggestion it is time to start re-opening the economy.

The two-hour town hall will air Sunday, May 3, from 7-9 p.m.

"America Together: Returning to Work" will be co-moderated by chief political anchor and executive editor Bret Baier and The Story's Martha MacCallum.

The venue will be the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and Baier, MacCallum and the President will all be there, but socially distanced, said Fox.

It is the audience that will not be there, but viewers can submit questions in advance of the town hall via FNC's social media accounts — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

Baier and MacCallum also co-moderated a March 5 town hall with the President, which Fox said (citing Nielsen) generated the highest election town hall ratings ever on that cable network, or any other.

President Trump will participate in a March 5 town hall on Fox News Channel, the network said Friday (Feb. 28). 

The event will be co-moderated by Bret Baier (Special Report) and Martha MacCallum (The Story). 

The town hall will be held at the Scranton Cultural Center in Scranton, Pa. It will be Fox's first such town hall with the President of the election season, as well as the President's first such appearance in this election season. It will air at 6:30-7:30 p.m. (and re-air at 11 p.m.-midnight).  Special Report usually airs at 6-7 p.m., and The Story at 7-8, so each will have abbreviated outings that night.

Fox has already hosted eight town halls with Democratic candidates, including most recently Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Feb. 27). 

Fox News Channel’s Democratic Town Hall event last night (March 7) featuring presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders drew 2.6 million viewers, the network reported Tuesday.

The one-hour event, which marked Clinton’s first appearance on FNC in two years, also drew 473,000 viewers in the key adult 25-54 demo during the 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. time block, according to network officials.

The Detroit-based special, hosted by Bret Baier, preceeded today’s presidential primary election in Michigan. Hawaii, Idaho and Mississippi are also holding primaries today.

TV One will explore the issues surrounding Black America and law enforcement Tuesday as part of a town hall meeting.

The special, State of Emergency: Baltimore and Beyond A News One Now Town Hall Meeting will be hosted by News One Now Host Roland Martin will feature a panel of newsmakers, politicians, law enforcement officers and civil rights activists discussing the impact of officer-involved deaths in Baltimore, Cleveland, Ferguson, New York and South Carolina on the relationship between the black community and police.

"News One Now has been a consistent platform for exploring issues important to African Americans, including the crises in Ferguson, New York, and most recently Baltimore," said Martin in a statement. "With this primetime special, we aim to broaden the national discussion on race in America, especially as it relates to the underlying tensions between police and the Black community."