The On-Air Personalities That Make Fox News an Industry Titan

Net Worth: $2 million*
Seen On: Outnumbered 

Author and Fox News correspondent Catherine “Katie” Pavlich was born in Arizona and received her BA from the University of Arizona. She is married to activist Brandon Darby. She is a member of the organization Daughters of the American Revolution, which she is eligible for because of her ancestry.

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She became an editor for Townhall Magazine after she graduated college, and she went to Fox in 2013, becoming an alternate anchor for The Five. She also has appeared on shows on other networks, including CNN, CNBC, and Fox Business.

Pavlich also hosts a podcast titled “Everything’s Going to Be All Right,” with her co-host, Sean Spicer, the former Press Secretary for the White House. Additionally, Pavlich is a published author. She wrote the books Fast and Furious and Assault & Flattery, both of which concern current political trends about which she is passionate.

Net Worth: $4 million*
Seen On: Fox News

Born in India and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Uma Pemmaraju hosts her own show, Pemmaraju, on Fox News. She was first part of the local channels in Dallas and Baltimore. When she worked in Baltimore, she won an Emmy.

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She then recruited by execs and producers at Fox as part of the original team when the network first got its start in 1996. Pemmaraju’s expertise boosted shareholder evaluation of the news division very quickly, setting the company on a promising path to market success.

The Anchor has interviewed many high-profile celebrities and newsmakers, including Buzz Aldrin, the Dalai Lama, Carly Simon, Whoopi Goldberg, and many politicians. She won the Women in Communications’ Matrix Award. The Big Sisters’ Organization of America named her as “The Woman of Achievement” because of her impact as a woman in reporting.

Net Worth: $500,000*
Seen On: Fox News

Fox News journalist Hollie McKay was born in Queensland, and she relocated to NYC to attend Pace University in 2006. She interned at Fox when she was finishing her last semester, and she wrote a column called “Pop Tarts” on the channel’s website, which was a column about events in show business. However, Holly switched gears when she became an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent.

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She has reported from Iraqi battlefields, and she has done domestic reporting on the unrest in Ferguson. She is known for her diligent reporting, as noted by her many positive reviews on her Microsoft-owned LinkedIn.

Infinity Ward hired McKay as a cultural and human rights consultant during the creation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. McKay drew on her reporting experience to help craft ideas for stories and features. She also helped create their international promotional materials. The game has been praised for its authenticity, largely because of McKay’s expertise.

Net Worth: $900,000*
Seen On: Fox & Friends

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Jillian Mele is an alum of La Salle University, where she graduated with a BA in communication. She started her career in journalism when she accepted a position as a sports anchor in Maine. She then joined NBC in Philadelphia and co-hosted a program on the Comcast-owned NBC Sports Channel.

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Mele has won many accolades. She won an Emmy for her work with NBC 10 in Philly when she pioneered a show about the Olympics. It was that Emmy Award that helped her get a foothold into the sports broadcasting world, in which she worked in Philadelphia after relocating from NY.

Mele currently co-hosts one of Fox’s most profitable and advertiser-friendly shows, Fox & Friends. The show’s massive ratings have continuously been a major selling point for company CEOs to boost the company’s value in the marketplace.

Net Worth: $6 million*
Seen On: Fox and Friends

Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt co-hosts the show Fox and Friends. She was born in South Carolina, and she attended USC and FSU. She was first hired for a CBS station in South Carolina before her graduation from USC. She then moved to Texas and appeared on a Viacom-owned CBS local station.

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She started work at Fox News after transferring to New York, hired by Roger Ailes despite not knowing anything about politics or world news. She managed to get her own show, Fox and Friends, and she has appeared on Sean Hannity’s show with her own segment.

Earhardt and Sean Hannity, a fellow newscaster on Fox, have been dating “quietly for years,” according to People Magazine. Earhardt was previously married to Kevin McKinney and, later, Will Proctor, a former quarterback who played Clemson University. She and Hannity have kept their relationship low-profile. It was just revealed in June of 2020.

Net Worth: $2.5 million*
Seen On: Fox News

Fox News’ Molly Line joined the station in 2006. She is based in Boston, but she was raised in West Virginia. Line worked for WXXA (Channel 23) as an anchor/reporter. She was with the New York channel from 2000 until 2002, just one year after she got started in journalism as a reporter and photographer for WDTV in Bridgeport, West Virginia.

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Line would later move to WFXT, where she would begin to cover heavy-hitter stories. She attended Virginia Tech, and she worked for a local TV station, WFXT, in Boston before becoming part of the major network. She covered, while there, the sentencing of Richard Reid and the nightclub fire at the Station.

Molly was also an anchor in Albany for a short period of time. When she joined Fox, she covered various news events live that shocked the nation, including the events at Sandy Hook and the arrest of Neil Entwistle.

Net Worth: $45 million*
Seen On: America Live, America’s Newsroom

Former corporate defense attorney Megyn Kelly is a journalist and news anchor who worked for Fox News on the popular show, The Kelly File. She was one of Fox’s most well-liked anchors, and she is considered one of the media’s most influential people. She hosted America Live and America’s Newsroom before getting her own network show.

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She left Fox in 2017 and joined NBC, where she had her show Megyn Kelly Today until it was canceled a year later. She left NBC in January of 2019 and has yet to announce her new project – though she’s promised to return to the newsroom. 

Though it’s unclear when she will return to the screen, what is for sure is that Kelly will be hosting a podcast called “The Megyn Kelly Show.” The podcast is streaming through Devil May Care Media, a company that she founded. The podcast airs its debut episode in the last week of September.

Net Worth: $12 million*
Seen On: Red Eye, Fox Report with Shepard Smith

Julie Banderas is an anchor for Fox. She was born in Connecticut and attended Emerson College. She joined Fox in 2008 when she replaced Laurie Dhue as an anchor on Fox Report Weekend, after stints at ABC and CBS affiliate stations. She hosted the show until she decided she wanted to take a weekday anchor role.

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She works as a Monday through Friday fill-in anchor for various Fox News shows. She was succeeded on weekends by Jon Scott. In addition to being a news anchor, both she and her husband are on the board of directors for the charity Habitat for Humanity. They also founded Big Apple Channel and Old Rock Media.

Banderas is married to Andre Sansone. According to Banderas, Sansone proposed to her using a message in a bottle while the two were clam digging in Long Island. Banderas made her engagement announcement on September 21, 2008 in America’s Election Headquarters. The two married in NYC in August of 2009.

Net Worth: $12 million*
Seen On: Justice with Jeanine

Jeanine Pirro is a former prosecutor and judge. She currently hosts Justice with Jeanine, a Fox News program. Pirro has hosted the show since 2011. Pirro previously appeared on NBC News and The Today Show, both on NBC, before moving to Fox. The former judge has her undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo and her law degree from Albany Law School.

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Pirro was married to Albert Pirro, a fellow lawyer. Pirro is a published author as well, having written several books about her views. Pirro holds the distinction of being the first female judge to be elected in Westchester County, NY.

Pirro also has a business. She is on the board of directors of HeavenlyRx, which is a cannabis company, specializing in CBD products. Pirro stated that she became interested in the industry after hearing people say how much they benefited from them. She was “a skeptic” at first before she became a believer in CBD.

Net Worth: $8 million*
Seen On: The Story with Martha MacCallum 

Born in Buffalo, New York, Martha MacCallum is a part of the Fox News Network. Her show, The Story with Martha MacCallum, has frequently featured interviews that have been played on other networks and shows besides Fox. She worked for the Wall Street Journal before switching to NBC.

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She then created the series called Inside the Business, which aired briefly on CNBC. She joined Fox in 2004, and she was the presidential election correspondent for four different elections. She became the host of The First 100 Days, which airs on Fox. 

The Women in Journalism Organization awarded her the Gracie Award (part of the Women in Media Foundation’s annual award) twice. She has also received the Commitment to Serve Award from Soldiersocks. MacCallum and her husband, Dan Gregory, have been married since 1992. They have three children together and reside in New Jersey.

Net Worth: $50 million*
Seen On: Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo  

Maria Bartiromo was born in Brooklyn, and she first became well-known for her shows Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street. Her parents were immigrants from Italy, and she and her family grew up in Bay Ridge. Her father was the owner of a Brooklyn restaurant called The Rex Manor, and her mother worked there as a hostess. Bartiromo’s mother was also a clerk for an off-track betting parlor, a common business in NY.

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She was the first reporter to ever broadcast live on the floor of the NYSE. She works for Fox Business Network as the global markets editor. She also hosts a financial program, Sunday Morning Futures, where she discusses politics and the economy.

She worked for CNN and then for CNBC, working for five and twenty years, respectively. She joined the Fox business team in 2013. She has a degree from New York University. Her major was, naturally, journalism.

Net Worth: $16 million*
Seen On: Fox and Friends 

Elisabeth Hasselbeck was born in Rhode Island, and she is now retired from TV, though she occasionally makes guest appearances on Fox, which was the last place she worked before retirement. Hasselbeck first became famous in 2001 after she was on the second season of Survivor.

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Hasselbeck’s marriage to Tim Hasselback, an NFL quarterback, made her even more famous. She got a job on The View on ABC as a daytime talk show host. She worked there from 2003 to 2013, winning an Emmy. After leaving The View, she co-hosted the show, Fox & Friends, on FNC from 2013 until 2015. She is now retired.

Hasselbeck has also dabbled in the healthcare field. She supports breast cancer screening awareness and has often released PSAs on the subject. Hasselbeck also suffers from celiac disease, which requires her to eat a gluten-free diet. She has written two books on how to eat a gluten-free diet, including The G-Free Diet and Deliciously G-Free.

Net Worth: $3 million*
Seen On: Fox and Friends

Navy veteran Lea Gabrielle was a combat aviator and intelligence officer in the Navy before she became a correspondent and journalist for Fox News. She was born in Virginia, and she graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1997. She left the Navy and got her digital journalism certificate from the NY Film Academy in 2009.

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She worked for NBC before Fox. She is a general assignment contributor for Shep Smith’s show. Fans often cite Gabrielle’s professional presentation and demeanor.

Her civilian reporting career kicked off in September of 2011 when Gabrielle moved to California. It was there that she worked for NBC 7’s KNSD-TV as a military reporter (then using her married name, Sutton). She became a part of the Fox News family in December of 2012 after Fox execs discovered her. 

Net Worth: $8 million*
Seen On: Outnumbered

Melissa Francis started her TV career as an actress at a very young age. She first appeared in a Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo commercial when she was six months old. She then appeared on Little House on the Prairie and St. Elsewhere a few years later as a child actor. She then broke away from acting to attend Harvard, where she got her B.A.

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Francis got a job at CNBC, hosting After the Bell, a weekday afternoon program. She joined Fox Business Network and Fox News. She is a regular FNC contributor and panelist for the program’s talk show, Outnumbered, which airs on weekday afternoons.

Francis also has a writing career. She wrote a book in November 2012 about her experiences as a child actress. Her first book, Diary of a Stage Mother’s Daughter was a memoir about growing up with an overbearing mother. Her second novel, Lessons from the Prairie, was about her time on the famous show Little House on the Prairie.