Laura Ingraham is bringing her Fox News show to MS ahead of Ole Miss, LSU showdown
The most-watched woman on cable news, Laura Ingraham, will bring her weeknight show on the Fox News Channel, the Ingraham Angle, to Oxford ahead of the SEC Magnolia Bowl showdown Saturday afternoon between Ole Miss and LSU.
Ingraham will broadcast live at 9 p.m. Friday from The Pavilion outside Vaught Hemingway Stadium.
The foray outside Washington D.C. is a rare one for Ingraham, but she wants to spend more time broadcasting outside the Beltway. This will be the broadcast’s first time airing from Mississippi, said the show’s senior executive producer, Tommy Firth.
Firth said college football seemed to be a perfect example of America’s return to normalcy from the COVID-19 pandemic and Oxford on the Magnolia Bowl weekend is a perfect backdrop. Nothing is more American than football, he said, especially SEC football.
“I think what your seeing is obviously a lot of pent-up excitement, making up for lost time,” Firth said. “My point being that these college football games have kind of become an outlet for these young folks to usher in a return to normalcy that we’re seeing in this country.”
Ingraham plans to take full advantage of the unique atmosphere at the University of Mississippi for football games, including tailgating in The Grove on Friday night with a camera crew to capture the Running of the Tents, when Ole Miss fans clamour for tailgating spots on the legendary 10-acre Grove.
A bonus for the show will be the retirement of Eli Manning’s No. 10 jersey, only the third jersey retirement in Ole Miss history. The jerseys of Eli’s father, No. 18 Archie Manning, and No. 38 worn by Chucky Mullins also were retired.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves will be a guest on her live broadcast later in the evening.
“Gov. Reeves has obviously been kind of a key figure in the management of COVID and how he’s chosen to do it,” Firth said. “He also happens to be a huge Ole Miss fan, so it seemed like a good opportunity to get him in Oxford.”
Ingraham will talk to Reeves about how he bucked COVID-19 mandates, lockdowns and restrictions, favoring an open society during the deadly Delta variant wave.
The show also will feature “man on the street” interviews on and around campus to offer a flavor of what people outside Washington are thinking about the state of the country, COVID and hot topics such as a nationwide shortage of goods caused by jams in the supply chain.
This story was originally published October 21, 2021 at 11:24 AM.
