Trace Gallagher
Trace Gallagher | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 10, 1961 |
| Occupation | co-anchor of The Live Desk (Fox News Channel |
| Website | Biography on FoxNews.com |
Trace Gallagher (born September 10, 1961) is an American television news anchor for Fox News Channel.
Background
Born Tracy G. Gallagher, he grew up in the ski resort of Mammoth Lakes, California, where he was the quarterback for the Mammoth Huskie football team before he graduated from high school in 1979. Gallagher attended the University of San Diego where he studied business and played quarterback for the Torrero football team.
Before his news career, Gallagher was a professional water ski performer at Marine World Africa USA in California and at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. Although a gifted athlete, he often hurt himself while performing front flips. The injuries moved Gallagher to try his hand at announcing ski shows.
FOX News
Based in New York, Gallagher was co-anchor of The Live Desk, a general assignment correspondent and substitute anchor for Studio B and Fox Report. During his time at Fox, Gallagher has reported on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami.
He has also worked at FOX's Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles bureaus. Previously Gallagher worked at WCPX (now WKMG) in Orlando, Florida, KYEL (now KSWT) in Arizona, KVBC in Las Vegas, Nevada and KTVB in Idaho.
On February 1, 2010, Gallagher was demoted from anchor of The Live Desk to the position of field correspondent on America Live with Megyn Kelly (formerly The Live Desk with Trace).[1] The circumstances which lead to this notable demotion are currently unknown.
The demotion occurred three days after Gallagher fell under heavy criticism for cutting into President Obama's historic question-and-answer session at the Republican House Issues Conference. Commentators noted that Gallagher began his criticisms of the sitting President while twenty-minutes of the exchange remained.[2].
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