NewsNation is launching a new weekend show with Batya Ungar-Sargon, an opinion host who describes herself as a “MAGA lefty.”
The show, Batya, is a departure from much of NewsNation’s schedule, billed as offering unbiased news coverage. Since its launch, the Nexstar-owned network has since shifted its weeknight newscast approach to anchor personalities, including Leland Vittert, Chris Cuomo and Ashleigh Banfield, while it added the panel show, The Hill, in early evening.
Batya will air at 4 p.m. on Saturdays, starting on Sept. 20, with a repeat at 11 p.m. Ungar-Sargon is a columnist for The Free Press and the author of three books, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women and the upcoming The Left and the Jews.
NewsNation has not said whether it would be adding a show hosted by a personality from the left.
With the addition of her show, NewsNation Now with Anna Kooiman will air from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET, while NewsNation Now with Keleigh Beeson will air from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET and NewsNation Prime, anchored by Natasha Zouves, will be extended by one hour, and air Saturdays and Sundays from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET.