Fox & Friends
| Fox & Friends | |
|---|---|
| File:Foxandfriends07.png Title card for Fox & Friends | |
| Genre | News/Talk program |
| Starring | Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade (weekdays) Kelly Wright, Greg Kelly, and Paige Hopkins (weekends) |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Production location | New York City |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 180 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fox News Channel |
| Release | February 1, 1998 – present |
Fox & Friends is an American morning television show on the Fox News Channel.
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 Bill McCuddy with "Must Be McCuddy," a regular segment of entertainment news on the weekend editions, 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]
Personalities
Fox & Friends First
- Andrew P. Napolitano, rotating co-host, usually Wednesdays
- Alisyn Camerota,rotating co-host
- Megyn Kelly, rotating co-host
- Greg Kelly, rotating co-host
- Kelly Wright, rotating co-host
- Page Hopkins, rotating co-host
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
Weekends
- Greg Kelly, co-host
- Kelly Wright, co-host
- Page Hopkins, co-host
- Ainsley Earhardt, co-host
- Rick Reichmuth, FoxCast meteorologist
- Uma Pemmaraju, Fox News Live Sunday headline reader
- Greg Jarrett, Fox News Live Saturday headline reader
Regular contributors
- Dr. Manny Alvarez, FNC medical contributor
- Mancow Muller, Chicago radio personality who regularly chats with weekday hosts
- Bill McCuddy, FNC entertainment correspondent
Previous hosts
- Louis Aguirre, weekday co-host
- Kiran Chetry, weekend co-host, now at CNN
- E.D. Hill, weekday co-host, now a Fox News Live anchor
- Juliet Huddy, weekend co-host
- Mike Jerrick, weekend co-host
- Julian Phillips, weekend co-host
- Bob Sellers, weekend co-host, now at WTTG (FOX) in Washington, DC
- Lauren Green, weekday headline anchor
- Tiki Barber, Fox & Friends First Tuesday co-host ("Tiki Tuesday")
Controversies
Fox & Friends has been criticized by groups such as Media Matters for America [1] [2] and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, for appearing to have a conservative bias. A few examples of past behavior include:
- During a 2002 episode, when Paula Zahn left Fox News for CNN, Mancow Muller appeared on Fox & Friends with an actor playing Zahn, then proceeded to punch the actor in the face, exclaiming, "We will kill you, Paula!" [3]
- During a 2003 episode, during an interview with actress and anti-war activist Janeane Garofalo, Kilmeade berated her opinions, saying "Saddam must love you."
- 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." [4]
- During a 2007 episode, the Fox & Friends hosts became involved in the Insight magazine "madrassa" media controversy when they reported on a rumor, first mentioned by Insight, an online magazine owned by News World Communications, that Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama attended a "madrassa" -- a Muslim school teaching anti-American extremism -- in Indonesia during his childhood, and that fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had originally spread the rumor. The rumor 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 for reporting the story without checking the facts. [5]
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, and Brian Kilmeade
Weekends
- 7:00–10:00 a.m. : Fox & Friends Weekend with Kelly Wright, Greg Kelly, and Page Hopkins
Logos
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Fox & Friends logo from 2006 - Sunday, 2007-04-08
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Present Fox & Friends logo from Monday, 2007-04-09
Reference
- ^ Tim Cuprisin, "Plagued by soft ratings, O'Briens ousted as CNN morning anchors", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2007-04-11.