Nexstar Media Group’s cable network NewsNation is entering the crowded field of public affairs TV shows on Sundays.

The network announced Thursday that it will launch “The Hill Sunday with Chris Stirewalt” on March 3, airing at 10 a.m. Eastern. The Washington-based program will feature newsmakers, politicians and commentators, discussing major stories and discussing the week ahead.

The moderator,

Stirewalt,

is the former political director of Fox News and

What

a member of the Office of Election Decisions, whose call was made from Arizona

Chairman Joe

Biden

during the 2020 elections

angry former president Donald Trump.

Fox News never wavered on the election night call, which was confirmed by the other major networks nine days later. But it was widely believed within the network that some loyal viewers had left the network over the decision.

Stirewalt left the network about three months later

as part ofin

what the network

said there had been a call

a restructuring. His departure was largely seen as a response to the reaction to the early but accurate call in Arizona, which was even criticized internally by Bret Baier, the network’s main anchor, Washington.

as revealed during Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News

.

Stirewalt joined NewsNation in early 2022 as political editor. He is also an editor for

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a conservative-oriented online publication,

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is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

a center-right public policy think tank

where he focuses on American politics and public opinion

,

and the media

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Stirewalt will guide NewsNation into television’s longest-running genre

Sunday morning talk, whose relevance has lasted

by the seismic changes in the media landscape. The Sunday shows, as they are called, still matter in the news cycle and set the agenda in Washington for the week ahead.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” is the granddaddy of Sunday public affairs shows, starting in 1947, followed by CBS’s “Face the Nation,” which started in 1954, and ABC’s “This Week,” launched in 1981.

Cable news is also active during the daypart, with “Fox News Sunday” and CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The Hill Sunday” is part of NewsNation’s expansion into

become

a full 24 hours,

seven

daily news channel that can compete with the more established CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Nexstar launched the news operation in 2020 on its entertainment channel WGN America. The name was changed to NewsNation in 2021 as the network added more hours of news programming to the line

The network filled in its dayline

–

learned of the news last year and announced in January that it would have weekend programming.

Ratings for NewsNation were modest, but Nexstar executives have maintained the operation is profitable. The network increased its profile last month when it launched its first Republican primary debate, which was simulcast on Nexstar’s CW network.

Nexstar could eventually offer “The Hill Sunday” to its TV channels, just as “Fox News Sunday” airs on the Fox broadcasters.