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Fox News Channel (FNC) is a US Cable News and satellite
Satellite television

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 news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group is an United States entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial television, cable television, and direct broadcast satellite television properties....
, a subsidiary
Subsidiary

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 of News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
. As of January 2005, it is available to 85 million households in the U.S. and further to viewers internationally
Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
, broadcasting primarily out of its New York City
New York City

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 studios.

The channel was created by Australia
Australia

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n-American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 media mogul Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
, who hired Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 political strategist and former NBC executive Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes is the president of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. He was a media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H....
 as its founding CEO. The channel was launched on October 7, 1996 to 17 million cable subscribers.






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Fox News Channel (FNC) is a US Cable News and satellite
Satellite television

Satellite television is television delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by a satellite dish and set-top box. In many areas of the world it provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial television or cable television providers....
 news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group
Fox Entertainment Group

Fox Entertainment Group is an United States entertainment industry company that owns film studios and terrestrial television, cable television, and direct broadcast satellite television properties....
, a subsidiary
Subsidiary

A subsidiary, in business matters, is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity. The controlled entity is called a company , corporation, or limited liability company, and the controlling entity is called its parent ....
 of News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
. As of January 2005, it is available to 85 million households in the U.S. and further to viewers internationally
Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
, broadcasting primarily out of its New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 studios.

The channel was created by Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n-American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 media mogul Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
, who hired Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 political strategist and former NBC executive Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes is the president of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. He was a media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H....
 as its founding CEO. The channel was launched on October 7, 1996 to 17 million cable subscribers. The network slowly rose to prominence in the late 1990s. In the United States, Fox News Channel has been rated
Nielsen Ratings

Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement developed by the AC Nielsen Company, to determine the audience size and composition of broadcast programming....
 as the cable news network with the largest number of regular viewers.

Some critics and observers of the channel say that Fox News Channel often promotes conservative political positions, especially among liberal media watch groups
Watchdog journalism

Watchdog journalism refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact social and political life....
 such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting is a Progressivism in the United States media criticism organization based in New York City, founded in 1986....
 (FAIR) and Media Matters for America
Media Matters for America

Media Matters for America is a 501 non-profit organization founded in 2004 by journalist and author David Brock. Media Matters for America describes itself as "a web-based, not-for-profit, Progressivism in the United States research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting Conservatism in the...
. Fox News Channel publicly denies any bias
Media bias

Media bias is a term used to describe the reality and perception bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media, in the selection of which events will be reported and how they are covered....
 in the channel's reporting.

History

In May 1985, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n publisher Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
 announced that he and American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 industrialist and philanthropist
Philanthropist

A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable organization....
 Marvin Davis
Marvin Davis

Marvin H. Davis was an United States industrialist and philanthropist. He made his fortunes as the chairman of Davis Petroleum and at one time owned 20th Century Fox, Pebble Beach, the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Denver Broncos NFL team, and the Aspen Skiing Company....
 intend to develop "a network of independent stations as a fourth marketing force" to compete directly with CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, NBC and ABC through the purchase of six television stations then owned by Metromedia
Metromedia

Metromedia was a media company that owned radio station and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986....
. In July 1985, 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 announced that publisher Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
 had completed his purchase of 50 percent of Fox Filmed Entertainment
Fox Filmed Entertainment

Fox Filmed Entertainment is the parent company of Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures. Since the year 2000, its Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers have been Thomas Rothman and Jim Gianopulos....
, the parent company of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. A year later, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. earned $5.6 million in its fiscal third period ended May 31, 1986, in contrast to a loss of $55.8 million in the year-earlier period.

Prior to founding Fox News, Murdoch had gained significant experience in the 24-hour news business when News Corp.
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
's BSkyB subsidiary started Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
's first 24 hour news channel, Sky News
Sky News

Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
, in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 in 1989. With the success of his fourth network
The Fourth Network

The Fourth Network is a non-fiction book about the history of the Fox Broadcasting Company television network. It was written by Daniel M....
 efforts in the United States, experience gained from Sky News, and turnaround of 20th Century Fox, Murdoch announced on January 31, 1996 that News Corp. would be launching a 24-hour news channel to air on both cable and satellite systems as part of a News Corp. "worldwide platform" for Fox programming, reasoning that "The appetite for news - particularly news that explains to people how it affects them - is expanding enormously."

In February 1996, after well-known former Republican political strategist Roger Ailes
Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes is the president of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. He was a media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H....
 left America's Talking
America's Talking

America's Talking, a cable television channel created by NBC and spun off from CNBC, was launched on July 4, 1994. The headquarters were based in an office building in Fort Lee, New Jersey, New Jersey, 2 floors below CNBC's original studios, on Fletcher Avenue....
 (now MSNBC), Murdoch called him to start the Fox News Channel. A group of Ailes loyalists who followed him throughout the NBC empire joined him at Fox. From there, the CNBC expatriates, who joined a team already in place at Fox News, created the programming concept and proceeded to select space in New York. Ailes worked individuals through five months of 14-hour workdays and several weeks of rehearsal shows before launch, on October 7, 1996.

At launch, only 10 million households were able to watch Fox News, with none in the major media markets of New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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. According to published reports, many media reviewers had to watch the first day's programming at Fox News studios because it was not readily available. The rolling news coverage during the day consisted of 20-minute single topic shows like Fox on Crime or Fox on Politics surrounded by news headlines
Headlines

Headlines may refer to:* Headlines , a song by the Spice Girls* Headlines , a weekly comedy segment performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno....
. Interviews had various facts at the bottom of the screen about the topic or the guest. The flagship newscast at the time was called The Schneider Report, with Mike Schneider
Mike Schneider

Mike Schneider is an United States television news anchor. His career spans 3 decades, including leading roles at all the major networks, and most recently, at Bloomberg....
 giving a fast paced delivery of the news. During the evening, Fox had opinion shows: The O'Reilly Report (now, The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor

The O'Reilly Factor is an United States talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by pundit Bill O'Reilly , who discusses current politics and social issues with guests and often on controversial topics....
), The Crier Report hosted by Catherine Crier
Catherine Crier

Catherine Jean Crier is an American television personality and a former district court judge.Crier was anchor for a Court TV program, Catherine Crier Live, a daily show concerning legal news....
, and Hannity & Colmes
Hannity & Colmes

Hannity & Colmes was an Television in the United States television show on Fox News Channel, hosted by Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, who respectively presented a Conservatism in the United States and Liberalism in the United States perspective....
.

From the beginning, Fox News has placed heavy emphasis on visual presentation. Graphics were designed to be colorful and attention grabbing and to allow people to get the main points of what was being said even if they couldn't hear the host, through the use of on-screen text summarizing the position of the interviewer or speaker and "bullet points" when a host was giving commentary.

Fox News also created the "Fox News Alert," which interrupted regular programming when a breaking news
Breaking news

Breaking news is a current event that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming in order to report its details. Its use is often loosely assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live....
 story occurred.

To accelerate its adoption by cable companies, Fox News paid systems up to $11 per subscriber to distribute the network. This contrasted with the normal practice, in which cable operators paid stations carriage fees for the programming of channels. When Time Warner
Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
 bought out Ted Turner
Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an United States media proprietor. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel....
's Turner Broadcasting, a federal antitrust
Antitrust

United States antitrust law is the body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are designed to encourage competition in the marketplace....
 consent decree
Consent decree

A consent decree is a Judiciary decree expressing a voluntary agreement between parties to a Lawsuit, especially an agreement by a defendant to cease activities alleged by the government to be illegal in return for an end to the indictment....
 required Time Warner to carry a second all-news channel in addition to its own CNN
CNN

Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
. Time Warner selected MSNBC as the secondary news network, instead of Fox News. Fox News claimed that this violated an agreement to carry Fox News. Citing its agreement to keep its U.S. headquarters and a large studio in New York City, News Corporation pressured Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration to pressure Time Warner, one of the city's two cable providers, to transmit Fox News on a city-owned channel. City officials threatened to take action affecting Time Warner's cable franchises in the city.

A lawsuit was filed by Time Warner against the City of New York claiming undue interference with, and inappropriate use of, the city's educational channels for commercial programming. News Corporation countered with an antitrust lawsuit against Time Warner for unfairly protecting CNN. This led to an acrimonious battle between Murdoch and Turner, with Turner publicly comparing Murdoch to Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 while Murdoch's New York Post
New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually as a daily, although -- like most other papers -- its publication has been interrupted by labor actions....
 ran an editorial questioning Turner's sanity
Sanity

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. Giuliani's motives were also questioned, as his wife was a producer at Murdoch-owned WNYW-TV. In the end, Time Warner and News Corporation signed a settlement
Settlement (law)

In law there are several main meanings of the word settlement. The most common meaning refers to when the parties to a dispute reach an agreement as to the case, which is said to 'settle' the claim....
 agreement to permit Fox News to be carried on New York City cable system beginning in October 1997, and on all of Time Warner's cable systems by 2001, though Time Warner still does not carry Fox News in all areas. In return, Time Warner was given some rights to News Corporation's satellite
Satellite

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s in Asia and Europe to distribute Time Warner programming, would receive the normal compensation per subscriber paid to cable operators, and News Corporation would not object to the continuation of Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the National League East of Major League Baseball's National League....
 baseball games being carried on TBS
TBS (TV network)

TBS is an United States cable television TV network owned by media mogul Ted Turner that shows sports and a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy....
 (which could have expired because of the Fox television network's contract with Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
).

On May 1, 2008, Fox News launched high definition
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
 channel simulcast
Simulcast

Simulcast is a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast", and refers to programs or events Broadcasting across more than one Mass media, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time....
s of its programming in selected regions of the United States. Time Warner Cable is carrying this channel in New York, NY, San Antonio, TX, and Kansas City, MO, while Cablevision is making it available in New York, NY and on Long Island.

On Friday, October 17, 2008 at 6am ET, DirecTV launched the high-definition channel. This launch was the first national launch of the network in HD. On January 9, 2009, Cox Communications
Cox Communications

Cox Communications, also known as Cox Cable and formerly Cox Broadcasting Corporation is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States....
 added the HD channel and on February 3, 2009 Dish Network did also.

Outlets

Fox News Channel maintains an archive of most of its programs. This archive also handles the Fox Movietone newsreels. Licensing of the Fox News archive is handled by ITN Source, the archiving division of Independent Television News.

Television

Fox News Channel presents a variety of programming with up to 15 hours of live programming per day, in addition to programming and content for the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
. Most of the programs are broadcast from Fox News headquarters in New York City in their street-side studio on Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue (Manhattan)

Sixth Avenue is a major avenue in New York City's borough of Manhattan. Although the Avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia New Yorkers remained faithful to the old name....
 in the west extension of Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commerce buildings covering between 48th and 51st streets in New York City. Built by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan, spanning between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue ....
. Audio simulcasts of the channel are aired on XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television....
 and Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in the United States and Canada, owned by Sirius XM Radio. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Tennessee, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of sports, news and ente...
.

Radio

With the growth of the Fox News Channel, the network introduced a radio division entitled Fox News Radio in 2003. Syndicated throughout the United States, the division provides short newscasts and talk radio
Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests....
 programs, featuring personalities from both the television and radio divisions. In addition, the network has also introduced Fox News Talk
Fox News Talk

Fox News Talk is a satellite radio channel that showcases talk shows and news reports from Fox News Channel personalities, along with other Fox News and talk programming....
 in 2006, a satellite radio
Satellite radio

A satellite radio or subscription radio is a digital radio signal that is broadcast by a communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical range than terrestrial radio signals....
 station which features programs syndicated by and featuring Fox News personalities.

Online

Like other news networks, Fox News Channel produces a news website
Website

A Web site is a collection of related Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are hosted on one Web server, usually accessible via the Internet....
 featuring the latest coverage, including video clip
Video clip

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s from the network's television division, audio clips from Fox News Radio, in addition to columns from the network's assorted television, radio, and online personalities, and a live streaming segment called Strategy Room. Introduced in December 1995, the network's website ranks below many other news websites, ranking in the lower teens in the list of top news websites.

Fox News Mobile is a part of the Fox News website that is dedicated to streaming
Streaming media

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 news clips that are formatted for video enabled mobile phone
Mobile phone

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s.

Fox News Channel HD

Fox News Channel HD is 720p
720p

720p is the shorthand name for a category of High-definition television video modes. The number 720 stands for the 720 horizontal scan lines of display resolution , while the letter p stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced....
 high definition simulcast of Fox News Channel. Most of the programs available in HD (Fox & Friends, Glenn Beck, Fox Report, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, On the Record) are shown in 16:9 widescreen. For the shows broadcast in SD
Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television refers to television systems that have a resolution that meets standards but not considered either Enhanced-definition television or High-definition television....
, (with the exception of Special Report) the feed is pushed to the left of the screen, with the extra room used for additional content, such as breaking news headlines, stock quotes, and weather forecasts, with the video upconverted
Video scaler

A video scaler is a device for converting video signals from one size or display resolution to another: usually "upscaling" or "upconverting" a video signal from a low resolution to one of higher resolution ....
. The side is info named "The Fox HD Wing". Partner channel Fox Business Network HD
Fox Business Network

Fox Business Network is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel that commenced broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
 uses the same format, as well as competitor channel CNBC HD+
CNBC

CNBC is a US Cable News and satellite television television Business channels in the United States, owned and operated by NBC Universal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets....
, and sports channels ESPNews HD
ESPNEWS

ESPNews , launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel that is owned and operated by the sports network ESPN....
 and NFL Network HD
NFL Network

NFL Network is an United States television specialty channel dedicated to American football. It is owned and operated by the National Football League and is also shown in Canada and Mexico....
.

Personalities

Producing a variety of different programming, Fox News Channel has a number of different program hosts, news anchors, correspondent
Correspondent

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or Pundit who contributes reports to a newspaper, or All-news radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location....
s, and contributors which appear throughout daily programming on the network. The network has a number of different signature hosts, including Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly (commentator)

William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an United States presenter/radio personality, author, syndicated columnist and self-described "traditionalist" political commentator....
, Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity

Sean Patrick Hannity is an American radio personality and television host, author, and Conservatism in the United States political commentator....
, Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren

Greta Van Susteren is an United States journalist and television personality on the Fox News Channel, where she hosts On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren....
, and Shepard Smith
Shepard Smith

Shepard Smith is an United States TV news presenter. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on the Fox News Channel....
, all of whom host programs which are on the list of the top ten most watched programs on cable news. In January 2009, conservative political commentator Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck is an United States radio personality and television host, Conservatism in the United States political commentator, author, and entrepreneur....
 was added to the list of personalities at Fox News Channel.

Ratings

Fox News saw huge growth in its ratings during the early stages of the Iraq conflict
2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1, 2003, was spearheaded by the United States, backed by United Kingdom forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Spain, Poland and Denmark....
. By some reports, at the height of the conflict they enjoyed as much as a 300 percent increase in viewership, averaging 3.3 million viewers daily.

In 2004, Fox News Channel's ratings for its broadcast of the Republican National Convention
2004 Republican National Convention

The 2004 Republican National Convention, the United States presidential nominating convention of the Republican Party of the United States, took place from August 30 to September 2, 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York....
 beat those of all three broadcast networks. During President George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
's address, Fox News notched 7.3 million viewers nationally, while NBC, CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
, and ABC scored ratings of 5.9, 5.0, and 5.1, respectively.

In late 2005 and early 2006, Fox saw a brief decline in ratings. One of the most notable decline in ratings came in the second quarter of 2006, when compared to the previous quarter, Fox News had a loss in viewership for every single prime time program. One of the most noteworthy losses of viewership was that of Special Report with Brit Hume
Special Report with Brit Hume

Special Report with Bret Baier is an United States television program appearing on Fox News Channel. It airs live each Monday through Friday at 6:00pm ET....
. The show's total viewership was down 19 percent compared to the previous quarter. However, several weeks later, in the wake of the North Korean Missile Crisis
North Korean missile test, 2006

Two rounds of North Korean missile tests were conducted on July 5, 2006. The North Korea reportedly fired at least seven separate missiles. These included two short-range Nodong-2 missiles, one Scud missile and up to two long-range Taepodong-2 missiles; the latter having been estimated by United States intelligence agencies as having a poten...
 and the 2006 Lebanon War, Fox saw a surge in viewership and remained the #1 rated cable news channel. Fox still held eight of the ten most-watched nightly cable news shows, with The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor

The O'Reilly Factor is an United States talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by pundit Bill O'Reilly , who discusses current politics and social issues with guests and often on controversial topics....
 and Hannity & Colmes
Hannity & Colmes

Hannity & Colmes was an Television in the United States television show on Fox News Channel, hosted by Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, who respectively presented a Conservatism in the United States and Liberalism in the United States perspective....
 coming in first and second places, respectively.

For the year 2007, Fox News was the number-one rated cable news network in the United States. It was down one percent in total daily viewers and down three percent in the 25-54 year old demographic, but it still boasted most of the top-rated shows on cable news led by The O’Reilly Factor. For primetime TV Fox News ranked #6 of all cable networks.

Slogan

"Fair & Balanced" is a trademark
TradeMark

TradeMark is a tall, primarily residential, skyscraper in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was completed in 2007 and has 28 floors. There are 200 hundred residential units....
ed slogan
Slogan

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 used by the broadcaster. The slogan was originally used in conjunction with the phrase "Real Journalism." Comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
 and politician
Politician

A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
 Al Franken
Al Franken

Alan Stuart Franken is an United States politician, comedian, writer and Modern liberalism in the United States political commentator. He first became famous as a writer and a performer for the television show Saturday Night Live, then moved into writing several films....
 used the slogan in the subtitle for his 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right is a book of political commentary and satire by comedian and political commentator Al Franken, published in 2003 by E....
. In the book, he cites examples of Fox News' bias
Media bias

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. On August 22, 2003, Fox sued based upon its trademark on the phrase. Fox News dropped the lawsuit three days later after Judge Denny Chin
Denny Chin

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 refused their request for an injunction
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. Chin denied the injunction and said that the case, Fox vs. Franken, was "wholly without merit, both factually and legally". He went on to suggest that Fox News' trademark on the phrase "fair and balanced" could be invalid.

In December 2003, Fox News found itself on the other end of a legal battle concerning the slogan, when AlterNet
AlterNet

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 filed a cancellation petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification....
 to have Fox's trademark rescinded as misdescriptive. AlterNet included the documentary film Outfoxed
Outfoxed

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 as supporting evidence in its case. After losing early motions, AlterNet withdrew its petition and the USPTO dismissed the case.

Controversies


Allegations of political bias

Some critics and politicians have accused Fox News of having a bias towards the political right
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 or Republican
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 point of view at the expense of neutrality. Murdoch and Ailes have reacted against allegations of bias, with Murdoch claiming that Fox has "given room to both sides, whereas only one side had it before." In 2004, director Robert Greenwald
Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald is an United States film director, film producer, and political activist, noted in the 2000s for his documentary film critical of Fox News and of the George W....
 produced the documentary film Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, which argues that Fox News has a conservative bias, including as evidence internal memos from editorial Vice President John Moody
John Moody (journalist)

John Moody is Senior Vice President, News Editorial for the Fox News Channel.Moody was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1975, he graduated from Cornell University and began working for United Press International, serving successively as the Moscow, Russia and Paris, France bureau chief....
 which the film claims exposes attempts to alter news content. This was later distributed on DVD
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 by MoveOn.org.

Internal memos

A series of internal memos issued by Fox News V.P. John Moody
John Moody (journalist)

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 to news personnel in 2003 and 2004 were leaked to the media in July 2004. These editorial directives contained comments such as "[then Democratic presidential candidate] John Kerry
John Kerry

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 may wish he'd taken off his microphone before trashing the GOP". Media watchdog groups such as Media Matters for America
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 cite the leaked memos as evidence that top-down pressure is the source of Fox News channel's pro-Republican bias.

Talking points from Bush White House

While promoting his memoir, What Happened
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, Scott McClellan
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, former White House Press Secretary
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 (2003–2006) for President George W. Bush
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 stated on the July 25, 2008 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews
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 that the Bush White House routinely gave talking points to Fox News commentators — but not journalists — in order to influence discourse and content. McClellan stated that these talking points were not issued to provide the public with news; instead, they were to provide Fox News commentators with issues and perspectives favorable to the White House and Republican Party. McClellan later apologized to Fox News commentator, Bill O'Reilly
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 for not responding to Matthews' suggestion that "Bill" or "Sean" received the talking points; McClellan said he had no personal knowledge that O'Reilly ever received the talking points. Furthermore he pointed out "the way a couple of questions were phrased in that interview along with my response left things open to interpretation and I should not have let that happen".

International transmission


The Fox News Channel feed is available internationally, while the Fox News Extra segments provide alternate programming.

Fox News Extra


Initially, US advertisements were replaced on Fox News with viewer e-mail and profiles of Fox News anchors set to music. In 2002 these were replaced with international weather forecasts. In 2006, the weather segments were replaced with 'Fox News Extra' segments, various narrated reports from FOX reports on a variety of topics. These reports are generally on lighter issues not related to current news events, and the segments are repeated. Fox News Channel also shows international weather forecasts when the Fox News Extra segments run short.

The Fox News feed in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

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 does not feature Fox News Extra, and instead features break fillers from sister channel Sky News
Sky News

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's International Variant. For a short period in 2001, a still of the Fox News logo replaced this other content.

Australia


In Australia, Fox News Channel is broadcast on the three major Pay-TV providers, Foxtel
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, Austar
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 and Optus Television
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. Foxtel is 25 percent owned by News Corporation. The Australian version previously featured some local programming, including a John Laws
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 current affairs program in place of part of Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends

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. Local advertisements and promotions are aired in place of every second 'Fox News Extra' segment. Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia

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 is Fox's sister channel.

Brazil


Since 2002 Fox News has been broadcast to Brazil
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, but the commercials are replaced with Fox News Extra. It is broadcast by Sky
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 (satellite operator, a joint-venture between News Corporation
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 and Globosat
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) and in the digital packages of NET
Net Serviços de Comunicação S/A

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.

Canada


On December 14, 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved Fox News Canada on behalf of the Global Television Network
Global Television Network

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, for broadcast in Canada
Canada

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. Fox News Canada was to be a domestic Canadian version of Fox News. The channel, or "specialty television service", was never implemented by Fox, and the deadline for commencement of the service expired on November 24, 2004. That same day, a similar license was granted to Rogers Communications
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 for "MSNBC Canada", which went to air in September 2001. During this period, it was speculated by some, and repeated by Fox News personalities, that the station was being "banned in Canada." The CRTC's previous refusal to grant Fox News an outright license had been contested by some Canadians, as well as American fans of the channel, who believed the decision to be politically motivated. However, it is rare for any American cable network to be licensed in Canada outright.

On November 18, 2004 the CRTC announced that a digital license would be granted to Fox News. In its proposal, Fox News stated, with reference to Fox News Canada, that "Fox News does not intend to implement this service and therefore will not meet the extended deadline to commence operations." On December 16, 2004, Rogers Communications became the first Canadian cable or satellite provider to broadcast Fox News, with other companies following suit within the next several weeks.

Italy

In Italy
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, Fox News was launched, first in Europe, on the now defunct Italian digital satellite television platform Stream TV in 2001. Part of its programming was translated in Italian
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 and broadcasted on the defunct Italian news channel Stream News. In 2003 was moved on SKY Italia
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 with U.S. commercials replaced by Fox News Extra segments and now is available on 4.600.000 subscribers and 160.000 hotel rooms in Italy. SKY TG 24 is one of the sister channel of Fox News.

New Zealand


In New Zealand
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, Fox News is broadcast on Channel 092 of pay satellite operator SKY
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 TV's digital platform. It is also broadcast overnight on New Zealand TV channel Prime, owned by SKY. Fox News parent corporation News Corp has a stake in both SKY and Prime.

Scandinavia


Between 2003 and 2006, in Sweden
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 and the other Scandinavia
Scandinavia

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n countries, Fox News was broadcast 16 hours a day on TV8
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, with Fox News Extra segments replacing U.S. advertising. Fox News was dropped by TV8 and replaced by German
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 news channel Deutsche Welle
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 in September 2006.

United Kingdom


Fox News is also carried in the United Kingdom by the British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) satellite television network (Sky Digital) which is 40% owned by Fox's parent News Corporation
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. It is run as a sister channel to BSkyB's popular Sky News
Sky News

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. Fox News is usually broadcast as a VideoGuard
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 encrypted channel but during major news stories it may be simulcast on Sky Active, which is free to air. As of September 2006 the channel has carried UK specific advertising, along with headlines and weather provided by Sky News during its breaks. These run under the brand of Fox News International.

Due to the shared ownership of Fox and Sky, Fox News and Sky News routinely share bureaus and reporters for breaking news stories from around the world.

Other countries

Fox News World Providers
Fox News Channel is also carried in more than 40 countries. Although service to Japan
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 stopped in the summer of 2003, it can still be seen on Americable (distributor for American bases), Mediatti (Kadena Air Base), and Pan Global TV Japan.

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  • Australia
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  • Bahamas
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  • Barbados
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  • Canada
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  • Cayman Islands
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  • Chile
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  • Colombia
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  • Denmark
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  • Grenada
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  • Jamaica
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  • Mexico
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  • New Zealand
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  • Nigeria
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  • Pakistan
    Pakistan

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  • Palau
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  • Panama
    Panama

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  • Peru
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  • Singapore
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  • Saint Lucia
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  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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  • Thailand
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  • Trinidad and Tobago
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  • Tonga
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  • United Kingdom
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  • Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....


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    See also

    • Fox Business Network
      Fox Business Network

      Fox Business Network is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel that commenced broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
    • Fox effect
      Fox effect

      The Fox effect is a theory in political science and Mass media that postulates that the development of the popular 24-hour international television news channel known as Fox News Channel has had a major impact on the conduct of both domestic policy in the United States and news coverage by FNC's news media competitors in the United States....
    • Sky News
      Sky News

      Sky News is a rolling TV news channel providing 24 hour news coverage including the latest breaking news. Currently broadcasting from a news centre in London, the channel provides domestic and international coverage to audiences in the UK as well as around the globe....
       (sister channel)
    • SKY TG24
      SKY TG24

      SKY TG24 is an Italy 24-hour news channel owned by SKY Italia. Its director is Emilio Carelli.SKY TG24 was launched on July 31, 2003, and provides round-the-clock of the news, with updates on every hour and half-hour....
       (sister channel)


    Further reading

    • The Fifth Estate
      The fifth estate

      the fifth estate is a Canada television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
      : , CBC—Bob McKeown investigates Fox News for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 45 min.


    External links

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    • —Official Mobile Site
    • —Live Fox News Radio Stream
    • —Live Fox News Talk
    • —Fox's parent company.