Greta Van Susteren steps up her game yet again, joining InvestigateTV’s Lee Zurik to launch Gray Television, Inc.’s new daily show, “Full Court Press Now,” to begin Monday, April 6th, after the late local news. Deadline reported the new show here.
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren is Gray Television’s Chief National Political Analyst and the Host of their Sunday political show, “Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren,” where she pushes top political figures for the best and latest in news. Now, teaming up with Lee Zurik, New Orleans’ most honored investigative reporter, Greta will be able to leverage local, real-time reporting from Gray Television’s nearly 100 newsrooms to fill gaps in COVID-19 coverage across the country. According to Gray Television’s release, “The show will keep close watch on what public officials, private companies, and health providers are doing to support Americans in these unprecedented times.” The statement went on to say the show would “feature heroes battling the pandemic and the brave Americans fighting to survive.”
Gray Television InvestigateTV’s County-by-county map of COVID-19 cases
Viewers can rest assured that this power duo will provide real time information on the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee Zurik is the anchor of the News Orleans TV Station, WVUE, and runs InvestigateTV, the investigative unit of Gray Television. In March, Lee and his team at InvestigateTV launched a comprehensive COVID-19 County-by-County Tracker in order to start gathering much needed data on the local distribution of the virus. With their interactive map, which is updated multiple times each day, users can track the latest COVID-19 data in real time organized by county.
Lee Zurik; Photo courtesy of Crescent City Jewish News
Meanwhile, Greta’s show, “Full Court Press” is a weekly syndicated Sunday show that premiered in September 2019 and now plays in over 80% of the country. For the past month, Greta has been chasing down Coronavirus Task Force Members, health officials, and prominent politicians to give her audience the best in coronavirus coverage. The new daily show will build on Greta’s existing weekend show. Channel listings and showtimes can be found here.
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