Good news for Malloy Fans: Fox will get new talk channel on XM

Looks like Alan Colmes will move over to the new channel and Malloy will take his spot on the 167 Air America Radio slot.

Now XM needs to work on bringing in Bernie Ward and Ray Tal from KGO to fill the void overnight.

http://billboardradiomonitor.com/radiomonitor/news/format/talk/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001307856

Fox Gets Talk Channel On XM
Oct. 18, 2005
By Tony Sanders



It’s going to be called “Fox News Talk” and it launches on XM Satellite Radio as a separate channel in January 2006. Fox News Radio senior VP Kevin Magee described the move in a prepared statement as “another opportunity to expand the Fox News brand.”

The new channel will offer news, analysis and commentary from Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly, Tony Snow, John Gibson, and Alan Colmes, among many others. The channel will provide another outlet for primetime Fox News Channel programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Several Fox talk personalities are already airing on XM’s talk and entertainment channels: Currently, Colmes is on the “Air America Radio” channel (167) from 10 a.m.-1 a.m.and Snow airs live on XM’s channel 165, the “Ask” channel, from 9 a.m.-12 noon.

It’s likely that the Fox personalities would be gathered onto this one, new XM channel, although it wasn’t made clear in a press release if that was to be the case. Calls to XM and Fox were not returned at Billboard Radio Monitor deadline.