"Our promise is to put on real life human voices in our radio hosts and podcasters. To ensure that there would always be a human, there had all sorts of consequences from listeners being so thankful for that promise. But also for our own employees."
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav championed Thompson as a "true innovator who has transformed for the digital age two of the world’s most respected news organizations."
The 80-year-old Hume has been a mainstay at Fox News. He joined the network in 1996 and hosted Special Report from 1998 to 2008 before moving to an analyst role with the network that he still holds today.
Jim Sciutto, Bianna Golodryga, Rahel Solomon, and Christiane Amanpour are among those the network has tasked with debuting new programs on the platform.
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."