After days of virtually ignoring President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial in the evenings during the House Democratic managers’ arguments, Fox News increased its evening live coverage when Trump’s team was making its case. Fox’s live evening coverage was longer during the second day of Trump’s defense than it was for all three days of the House managers' arguments combined.

House impeachment managers started making their case to the Senate on January 22, but Fox broadcast the proceedings live for a mere 16 minutes between 5 p.m. and midnight.

On the subsequent two days, as House managers continued their oral arguments, Fox broadcast the trial live for just four and three minutes, respectively. But on Monday, January 27, when Trump’s legal defense team started the second day of its case, Fox’s evening shows broadcast 31 minutes of the trial live, a marked increase over the prior evenings.