Kennedy, Matt Welch, Kmele Foster to Launch New Nightly Fox Business Show Called The Independents

As
scooped over at
Reason 24/7, Fox Business Network has announced a brand
spanking new television show featuring some familiar faces! From
the
press release:

FOX Business Network (FBN) will debut The Independents,
a new primetime program hosted by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
(Kennedy), on Monday, December 9th announced Kevin Magee,
Executive Vice President of the network.

The program, which will
appear Monday through Wednesday and Friday nights
at 9PM/ET, will feature a roundtable discussion on the news of
the day with a special emphasis on the protection of economic and
civil liberties. Each evening, Kennedy will be joined by her
co-hosts, Reason magazine’s Matt Welch and
America’s Future Foundation’s Kmele Foster, as well as a rotating
panel of experts. FBN’s Stossel, hosted by John Stossel,
will continue to appear at 9PM/ET on Thursdays.

Kennedy joined FBN as a contributor and special correspondent to
Stossel in 2012. She is the author of two books; The Kennedy
Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses
and Hey Ladies! Tales and Tips for Curious Girls. She is
also the host of Music in the Morning w/ Kennedy on 98.7FM Los
Angeles Alternative radio and serves as a contributor to
Reason.com.

A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
Kennedy holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy. She got her start
in television as an MTV video jockey (VJ) in 1992.

See the Reason.com archives for material from Kennedy, Kmele Foster, and
moi. The
three of us will be on Stossel tomorrow night at 9 PM ET
(get used to that time slot!) talking about the show and other
issues.