Wallace Looks Back as ‘Fox News Sunday’ Turns 20

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Fox News Sunday has turned 20, with Chris Wallace the host for 13 of those years. Wallace has interviewed the gamut of newsmakers and presidents, including his recent sit-down with President Obama, and aims to keep doing so for several more years.

Asked about highlights, Wallace says, “Getting to wake up every Sunday at 5:15 and talk to the most powerful people in the country and the world about the issues that are of the keenest interest.”

Ten years after it happened, Wallace can laugh about his interview with President Bill Clinton, during which a testy Clinton charged Wallace with a “conservative hit job.” Wallace describes the exchange as “surreal…that huge head of Bill Clinton, right in front of me, as he wagged that finger at me,” he recalls.

More convivial was Obama on April 10. It was his first Fox News Sunday interview as president, despite a standing request from Fox News. “Timing is everything,” says Wallace, “in life and in television bookings.”

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.