Tracy G. Gallagher is an American
journalist
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and the anchor of ''
Fox News @ Night
''Fox News @ Night'' is an American current affairs program on Fox News hosted by Trace Gallagher. Episodes air live Tuesday through Saturday from midnight to 1 a.m. ET. It is the channel's last live program on the weekday schedule. The program ...
'',
Fox News
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' late-night news program.
Background
Gallagher grew up in the ski resort town of
Mammoth Lakes,
California
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where he was the quarterback for the Mammoth Huskies football team. He graduated from high school in 1979. Gallagher studied at the
University of San Diego and he majored in business
playing quarterback for the Torero football team.
Fox News
Based in
Los Angeles
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, Gallagher served as a co-anchor (with
Martha MacCallum) of ''
The Live Desk'' and as a substitute anchor for ''
Studio B with Shepard Smith'' and ''
Fox Report
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''. During his time at Fox Gallagher has reported on the
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the
2004 Southeast Asian tsunami.
Gallagher has also served as a general assignment correspondent.
He has worked at Fox's
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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San Francisco
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, and
New York City
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news bureaus. Previously Gallagher worked at WCPX (now
WKMG) in
Orlando
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, KVBC (now
KSNV
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) in
Las Vegas
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, and
KTVB
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in
Boise
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.
On February 1, 2010, ''The Live Desk'' was replaced with ''
America Live with Megyn Kelly
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''. Gallagher continues to anchor and report on Fox programs.
On September 21, 2022, he was named permanent host of
Fox News @ Night
''Fox News @ Night'' is an American current affairs program on Fox News hosted by Trace Gallagher. Episodes air live Tuesday through Saturday from midnight to 1 a.m. ET. It is the channel's last live program on the weekday schedule. The program ...
, replacing founding host
Shannon Bream
Shannon Noelle Bream ( DePuy; born December 23, 1970) is an American journalist and attorney who appears on Fox News Channel. In 2022 she became the host of the program ''Fox News Sunday''. Prior to hosting Fox News Sunday she was the host of ...
after she was named host of
Fox News Sunday
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. He has been hosting the program since October 3, 2022.
References
External links
FoxNews website*
Living people
American male journalists
American television journalists
Fox News people
Journalists from Arizona
Journalists from California
Journalists from Idaho
Journalists from Illinois
Journalists from Las Vegas
Television anchors from Orlando, Florida
People from Greater Los Angeles
People from Mammoth Lakes, California
People from San Diego
Television personalities from California
University of San Diego alumni
1961 births
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