Fox News Radio
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Fox News Radio is an American
radio network
programmed by Fox News Channel
.
. On June 1, 2005, Fox News Radio employed 60 people and provided five minute newscasts at the top of the hour and a one minute newscast at the bottom of the hour. At its launch, 60 stations participated in the network, with more joining under a deal struck between Fox and Clear Channel Communications
. This allowed many Clear Channel stations to carry Fox News Radio newscasts and allowed Fox News Radio to use and nationally distribute news content produced by Clear Channel.
Fox also produces Fox News Talk
for both satellite radio services, with talk radio programs syndicated by and featuring Fox News personalities.
Three other radio programs hosted by Fox News Channel personalities are or were distributed by other companies. The Radio Factor hosted by Bill O'Reilly
was produced by Fox News Radio but syndicated separately by Westwood One
. This is because when Fox News started producing O'Reilly's radio show in 2002, it did not have the resources to syndicate, and thus outsourced the distribution to Westwood One. Fox and Westwood One have since renewed the agreement, in 2006 and again in 2007; O'Reilly decided to leave the show in February 2009. (Because The Radio Factor was produced by Fox, it was available on Fox News Talk
, Fox's satellite radio
channel. Westwood One does not sell its programs to satellite services.)
The talk radio programs hosted by FNC's Sean Hannity
and Glenn Beck
are syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks
. Hannity's show debuted before Fox News Radio had launched (and prior to 2009, was distributed by ABC Radio, later Citadel Media), and Beck did not join the Fox organization until several years after his radio show had been on the air.
Aside from Hannity, the Fox News Channel radio hosts also appear on the Fox News Talk
satellite radio channel, along with the satellite-only program Fox Across America hosted by Spencer Hughes
. Hannity's program, The Sean Hannity Show, appears on the America Right
and Sirius Patriot
satellite channels.
On November 12, 2007, Fox News Radio debuted a 3-6 PM (Eastern) show hosted by Tom Sullivan
, a long-time California radio talk show host who is an anchor on the company's Fox Business Network
. Sullivan's show continues to air live on its original home station, Sacramento's
KFBK
, and is also now being offered to other stations, usually on tape delay.
On the Fox News Talk satellite channel, the Sullivan show precedes Fox Across America with Spencer Hughes, another former local talk show host for KFBK.
In August of 2011, Fox News Radio Affliliate KKFT aired Tipping Point with Boone Cutler to capture the Warfighter's perspective on national and international events. Boone Cutler is the first on-air Radio Personality that is a combat veteran from the War on Terror
with his own show.
The five minute audio version of the on-the-hour newscast, consisting of two minutes of news, one minute of ads or Fox promotions, and two more minutes of news, is available as a podcast
. As of 2011, typically only one MP3
file, the most recent one, is available at any time. The Eastern Time
hour number is incorporated into the filename (for example, 5minpodcast21.mp3 for 9PM). However, if there has been exceptional news (a Fox News Alert), the file for that hour's podcast will be retained for a few hours. The current hour's file is usually available within 10 minutes of its broadcast, i.e., by a quarter past the top of the hour.
Newscasts are regularly anchored by Dave Anthony, Lisa Brady, Ron Flatter, Jane Metzler, Chris Stanley, Bill Vitka, Lisa Lacerra, Karyn Regal, Chris Foster, Steve Rappaport, and Sal Giangrasso, with Shepherd Smith at 5PM ET during weekdays. Correspondents include Todd Starnes, Jeff Monosso and Kirstin McNary (based in New York); in Washington, Mike Majchrowitz (White House), Rich Johnson and Jared Halpern; in Los Angeles, Jessica Rosenthal and Sabrina Sabbagh. Jennifer Keiper reports from Chicago. Eben Brown reports from Miami. Alastair Wanklyn in London, Courtney Kealy in Jerusalem, Lesley Yeomans in Melbourne and James Blears in Mexico City serve as foreign correspondents.
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radio network
Radio network
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programmed by Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
.
History
In 2003, Fox News began syndicating one minute radio updates to radio stations via syndication service Westwood OneWestwood One
Westwood One was an American radio network and was based in New York City. At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation, and Viacom and was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group...
. On June 1, 2005, Fox News Radio employed 60 people and provided five minute newscasts at the top of the hour and a one minute newscast at the bottom of the hour. At its launch, 60 stations participated in the network, with more joining under a deal struck between Fox and Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
. This allowed many Clear Channel stations to carry Fox News Radio newscasts and allowed Fox News Radio to use and nationally distribute news content produced by Clear Channel.
Fox also produces 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...
for both satellite radio services, with talk radio programs syndicated by and featuring Fox News personalities.
Programming
Fox News Radio also syndicates the following radio programs hosted by its TV personalities:- Kilmeade and FriendsBrian and the JudgeBrian and the Judge was a radio talk show syndicated by Fox News Radio. It was hosted by Fox News personalities Brian Kilmeade and Judge Andrew Napolitano. The show was launched to replace Tony Snow's radio show when he left the program to become White House Press Secretary in 2006. The show is...
with Brian KilmeadeBrian KilmeadeBrian Kilmeade a Fox News Channel television personality. Weekdays, he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, along with Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson. Kilmeade also co-hosts Brian and the Judge, a talk-news radio show on Fox News Radio, with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano... - The John GibsonJohn Gibson (media host)John David Gibson is an American radio talk show host. As of September 2008, he hosts the syndicated radio program The John Gibson Show on Fox News Radio. Gibson was formerly the co-host of the weekday edition of The Big Story on the Fox News television channel.-Early career:Gibson earned a BA...
Show - The Tom SullivanThomas M. SullivanTom Sullivan is a business news anchor for the Fox Business Network, who also hosts a syndicated radio talk show on the Fox News Radio network....
Show - FOX Across America with Spencer HughesSpencer HughesSpencer Hughes is an American talk radio host. Hughes' program - Fox Across America - is heard on the Fox News Talk channel, which airs nationwide on satellite radio and is also streamed on the Internet....
- The Alan Colmes ShowThe Alan Colmes ShowThe Alan Colmes Show is a nationally-syndicated American radio show hosted by commentator Alan Colmes on Fox News Radio.The show is aired on weeknights from 10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m. from Fox's New York City studios...
Three other radio programs hosted by Fox News Channel personalities are or were distributed by other companies. The Radio Factor hosted by Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly (commentator)
William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news television program on American television...
was produced by Fox News Radio but syndicated separately by Westwood One
Westwood One
Westwood One was an American radio network and was based in New York City. At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation, and Viacom and was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group...
. This is because when Fox News started producing O'Reilly's radio show in 2002, it did not have the resources to syndicate, and thus outsourced the distribution to Westwood One. Fox and Westwood One have since renewed the agreement, in 2006 and again in 2007; O'Reilly decided to leave the show in February 2009. (Because The Radio Factor was produced by Fox, it was available on 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...
, Fox's satellite radio
Satellite radio
Satellite radio is an analogue or digital radio signal that is relayed through one or more satellites and thus can be received in a much wider geographical area than terrestrial FM radio stations...
channel. Westwood One does not sell its programs to satellite services.)
The talk radio programs hosted by FNC's Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity,...
and Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Edward Lee Beck is an American conservative radio host, vlogger, author, entrepreneur, political commentator and former television host. He hosts the Glenn Beck Program, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks...
are syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...
. Hannity's show debuted before Fox News Radio had launched (and prior to 2009, was distributed by ABC Radio, later Citadel Media), and Beck did not join the Fox organization until several years after his radio show had been on the air.
Aside from Hannity, the Fox News Channel radio hosts also appear on the 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...
satellite radio channel, along with the satellite-only program Fox Across America hosted by Spencer Hughes
Spencer Hughes
Spencer Hughes is an American talk radio host. Hughes' program - Fox Across America - is heard on the Fox News Talk channel, which airs nationwide on satellite radio and is also streamed on the Internet....
. Hannity's program, The Sean Hannity Show, appears on the America Right
America Right
SIRIUS XM Patriot Plus is a U.S. talk channel on SIRIUS Internet Radio and XM Radio Online that plays conservative talk programs. The channel is a spin-off from the newly merged SIRIUS XM Patriot channel, which retooled the lineups on both Sirius and XM radios to clear many Sirius XM exclusive...
and Sirius Patriot
SIRIUS Patriot
SIRIUS XM Patriot is a conservative talk radio channel on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel 125 and XM Satellite Radio channel 125 . The channel features exclusive hosts such as Mike Church, Cam & Company from , Gary L. Bauer & Tom Rose, and Andrew Wilkow. It also features popular syndicated fare...
satellite channels.
On November 12, 2007, Fox News Radio debuted a 3-6 PM (Eastern) show hosted by Tom Sullivan
Thomas M. Sullivan
Tom Sullivan is a business news anchor for the Fox Business Network, who also hosts a syndicated radio talk show on the Fox News Radio network....
, a long-time California radio talk show host who is an anchor on the company's Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network
Fox Business Network is an American cable news and satellite news television channel that began broadcasting on October 15, 2007. It is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
. Sullivan's show continues to air live on its original home station, Sacramento's
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
KFBK
KFBK
KFBK is a radio station in Sacramento, California broadcasting on a frequency of 1530 kHz. KFBK is a class A clear channel station, formerly designated as a class "I-B" station, sharing 1530 with WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio...
, and is also now being offered to other stations, usually on tape delay.
On the Fox News Talk satellite channel, the Sullivan show precedes Fox Across America with Spencer Hughes, another former local talk show host for KFBK.
In August of 2011, Fox News Radio Affliliate KKFT aired Tipping Point with Boone Cutler to capture the Warfighter's perspective on national and international events. Boone Cutler is the first on-air Radio Personality that is a combat veteran from the War on Terror
War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
with his own show.
Newscasts
The network also provides around-the-clock newscasts on the hour and on the half-hour. Depending on a station's affiliation, they either receive a five minute newscast or a one-minute newscast. Breaking news reports (dubbed Fox News Alerts), correspondent and expert interview availabilities, special broadcasts marking historic or newsworthy events, anchored "as-it-happens" coverage, and clean feeds of news events complete the affiliate service package. Affiliates also have access to a web site with a constantly updating selection of newsmaker audio and correspondent reports.The five minute audio version of the on-the-hour newscast, consisting of two minutes of news, one minute of ads or Fox promotions, and two more minutes of news, is available as a podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
. As of 2011, typically only one MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
file, the most recent one, is available at any time. The Eastern Time
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
hour number is incorporated into the filename (for example, 5minpodcast21.mp3 for 9PM). However, if there has been exceptional news (a Fox News Alert), the file for that hour's podcast will be retained for a few hours. The current hour's file is usually available within 10 minutes of its broadcast, i.e., by a quarter past the top of the hour.
Newscasts are regularly anchored by Dave Anthony, Lisa Brady, Ron Flatter, Jane Metzler, Chris Stanley, Bill Vitka, Lisa Lacerra, Karyn Regal, Chris Foster, Steve Rappaport, and Sal Giangrasso, with Shepherd Smith at 5PM ET during weekdays. Correspondents include Todd Starnes, Jeff Monosso and Kirstin McNary (based in New York); in Washington, Mike Majchrowitz (White House), Rich Johnson and Jared Halpern; in Los Angeles, Jessica Rosenthal and Sabrina Sabbagh. Jennifer Keiper reports from Chicago. Eben Brown reports from Miami. Alastair Wanklyn in London, Courtney Kealy in Jerusalem, Lesley Yeomans in Melbourne and James Blears in Mexico City serve as foreign correspondents.