Fox News

The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, and funded by the Christian Science Monitor a subsidiary of News Corporation, under major shareholder and chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch. As of January 2005, it is available to 85 million subscribers in the U.S. and to further viewers internationally, broadcasting primarily out of its New York City studios.

Programming

Fox News presents a wide variety of programming, with up to 15 hours of live programming per day. Most of the programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in New York City with its street-side studios on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) near Rockefeller Center. The following is the usual weekday lineup (as of Jan. 2005, all times Eastern):

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• 6 a.m.: Morning programming begins with Fox & Friends 1st, hosted by one or more of the Fox & Friends hosts with rotating co-hosts Kiran Chetry, Lauren Green, Juliet Huddy, Andrew P. Napolitano and others.
• 7 a.m.: Fox & Friends, hosted by Steve Doocy, E.D. Hill and Brian Kilmeade, is similar to other cable news network programming in the mornings, such as CNN's American Morning with Miles O'Brien and Soledad O'Brien and MSNBC's Imus in the Morning.
• 9 a.m.: Late morning and early afternoon programming starts with Fox News Live, a show featuring news, guest analysis, and interviews. Like other American cable news stations, there is news mixed with feature-like stories, as well as commentary and short debates between people on opposite sides of issues, usually between associates of candidates and officials, think tank members and journalists. Usually hosted by Jon Scott, Brigitte Quinn and Bill Hemmer.
• 1 p.m.: Juliet Huddy and Mike Jerrick's talk show with a live audience, Dayside.
• 2 p.m.: Another hour of Fox News Live hosted by Martha MacCallum.
• 3 p.m.: Shepard Smith's news program, Studio B.
• 4 p.m.: Fox's flagship business program, Your World, hosted by Neil Cavuto.
• 5 p.m.: John Gibson hosts The Big Story, a news/commentary program.
• 6 p.m.: Primetime starts with the political news and discussion show Special Report with Brit Hume, hosted by political reporter Brit Hume from Washington, DC.
• 7 p.m.: Shepard Smith broadcasts The Fox Report With Shepard Smith, offering various reports on the day's events.
• 8 p.m.: The network's top-rated show, The O'Reilly Factor. The taped broadcast features commentary from Bill O'Reilly, formerly of Inside Edition fame.
• 9 p.m.: Conservative Sean Hannity and liberal Alan Colmes debate political issues of the day with guests and analysts during Hannity & Colmes.
• 10 p.m.: Greta Van Susteren broadcasts On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. This program has an emphasis on stories pertaining to legal matters or human interest.
• 11 p.m.: Reruns of previous programs are shown until 6 a.m. the next day.

Fox News also produced several newsmagazine shows for its Fox affiliates including Fox Files and The Pulse, both cancelled after short runs due to poor ratings.

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Fox News Sunday currently airs on many Fox affiliates and is similar in format to other Sunday morning political discussion programs.

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