Fox & Friends
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| Fox & Friends | |
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 Title card for Fox & Friends |
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| Genre | Talk program |
| Starring | Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade (weekdays) Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, and Ainsley Earhardt (weekends) |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | New York City |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 180 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox News Channel |
| Picture format | 480i |
| Original run | February 1, 1998 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Fox X-press, Fox News Now |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
Fox & Friends is an American morning television show on the Fox News Channel.
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[edit] History
The program starts at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time with the latest Fox News Live headlines and analyzes the news of the morning. It continues with many different segments including interviews, updates of news stories with correspondents at any number of bureaus, analysis from the hosts, and many different regular morning show segments. Fox & Friends evolved from Fox X-press, FNC's original morning-news program.
The show also has a list of regular contributors, including Dr. Manny Alvarez with "Ask Dr. Manny" and "Dr. Manny's Healthbeat," two regular health segments, Mancow Muller with a short chat session towards the end of the weekday edition of the program, and any number of other contributors.
After the September 11, 2001, attacks, an additional hour was added to the beginning of the weekday show, but branded as a separate program called Fox & Friends First. It is the first FNC program to air live for the day, starting at 6:00 a.m. Usually consisting of the same information as the regular program, First Edition (as it is sometimes also called) is hosted by two regular Fox & Friends hosts with an additional rotating co-host.
In the first quarter of 2007, Fox & Friends held a significant lead in the Nielsen ratings among morning television shows on American cable channels, averaging 769,000 viewers, compared to CNN's American Morning's average of 372,000 viewers and MSNBC's Imus in the Morning program, which averaged 361,000 viewers at the time of its cancellation by MSNBC on 2007-04-11.[1]
[edit] Personalities
[edit] Fox & Friends First
- Andrew P. Napolitano, rotating co-host, usually Wednesdays
- Alisyn Camerota,co-host
- Clayton Morris, rotating co-host
- Ainsley Earhardt, rotating co-host, news updates
[edit] Weekdays
- Alisyn Camerota, Fox News Live headline reader
- Steve Doocy, co-host and FoxCast weather personality
- Gretchen Carlson, co-host
- Brian Kilmeade, co-host and sports-news anchor
[edit] Weekends
- Clayton Morris, co-host
- Ainsley Earhardt, co-host
- Dave Briggs, co-host
- Rick Reichmuth, FoxCast meteorologist
[edit] Regular contributors
- Dr. Manny Alvarez, FNC medical contributor
- Mancow Muller, Chicago radio personality who regularly chats with weekday hosts
- Jill Dobson, FNC entertainment correspondent
[edit] Previous hosts
- Louis Aguirre, weekday co-host, now a co-host of Miami WSVN's Deco Drive
- Tiki Barber, Fox & Friends First Tuesday co-host ("Tiki Tuesday")now on NBC's Football Night In America.
- Kiran Chetry, weekend co-host and Fox and Friends 1st host, now at CNN
- Allison Costarene, weekday co-host
- Lauren Green, weekday headline anchor,religious correspondent
- Courtney Friel, weekend host and entertainment reporter in 2007
- E.D. Hill, weekday co-host, now a Fox News Live anchor
- Page Hopkins, first did weekday updates after Lauren left, then did weekend updates, then hosted weekend show.
- Juliet Huddy, weekend co-host,now co-hosting the Mike and Juliet Show on the Fox Network
- Gregg Jarrett, Fox News Live Saturday headline reader
- Mike Jerrick, weekend co-host,now co-hosting The Mike and Juliet show on the Fox network
- Uma Pemmaraju, Fox News Live Sunday headline reader
- Julian Phillips, weekend co-host
- Bob Sellers, weekend co-host, now at WTTG (FOX) in Washington, DC
- Kelly Wright, weekend co-host, moved to another show
[edit] Controversies
Fox & Friends has been criticized for appearing to have a conservative bias. Some instances include.
- During a 2005 episode, Mancow Muller launched into a tirade against Democratic politician Howard Dean, calling him "vile," "evil," and "the enemy," and recommending that he be "tried for treason" and "kicked out of America." [1]
- During a 2007 episode, Fox & Friends hosts repeated the false claim that presidential candidate Barack Obama had attended a Muslim religious school in Indonesia during his childhood, and reported that the campaign team of rival presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was investigating the matter. The claim itself was debunked by CNN, even though it was still aggressively promoted on Fox & Friends. An Obama official issued a statement accusing both Fox & Friends and Fox News host John Gibson of reporting the story without checking the facts.[2]
[edit] Schedule (all times ET)
Weekdays
- 6:00 a.m. : Fox & Friends First
- 7:00–9:00 a.m. : Fox & Friends with Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, Alisyn Camerota and Brian Kilmeade
Weekends
- 7:00–10:00 a.m. : Fox & Friends Weekend with Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, and Ainsley Earhardt
[edit] Logos
 Fox & Friends logo from 2006 - Sunday, 2007-04-08 |
 Present Fox & Friends logo from Monday, 2007-04-09 |
[edit] References
- ^ Tim Cuprisin, "Plagued by soft ratings, O'Briens ousted as CNN morning anchors", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2007-04-11.
