Fox & Friends
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| Fox & Friends | |
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 Title card for Fox & Friends |
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| Genre | News/Talk program |
| Starring | Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade (weekdays) Kelly Wright, Greg Kelly, and a rotating anchor (weekends) |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location | 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 |
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| TV.com summary | |
Fox & Friends is a 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.
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[edit] Personalities
[edit] Fox & Friends First
- Andrew P. Napolitano, rotating co-host, usually Wednesdays
- Alisyn Camerota,co-host
[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
| U.S. morning television shows currently on air at 7am ET edit |
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| ABC | Good Morning America |
| BBC America | World News Today |
| CBS | The Early Show |
| CNBC | Squawk Box |
| CNN | American Morning |
| FNC | Fox & Friends |
| HLN | Robin & Company |
| MSNBC | Imus in the Morning |
| NBC | Today |
| syndi | The Daily Buzz |
| Telemundo | Cada Día |
| Univision | Despierta América |
- Greg Kelly, co-host
- Kelly Wright, 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
- Bill McCuddy, FNC entertainment correspondent
[edit] Previous hosts
- Louis Aguirre, weekday co-host
- Kiran Chetry, weekend co-host, now at CNN
- E.D. Hill, weekday co-host
- Juliet Huddy, weekend co-host
- Mike Jerrick, weekend co-host
- Julian Phillips, weekend co-host
- Bob Sellers, weekend co-host
- Lauren Green, weekday headline anchor
- Tiki Barber, Fox & Friends First Tuesday co-host ("Tiki Tuesday")
[edit] Controversies
Fox & Friends has been criticized by groups such as Media Matters for America 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!"
- 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."
- During a 2007 episode, the Fox & Friends hosts became involved in the Insight magazine "madrassa" media controversy when they reported on a rumor 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 rumors. The rumors were actually started by Insight, an online magazine owned by News World Communications, part of the Unification Church. 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.
[edit] Trivia
- Bob Sellers was originally a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend when it first aired, replaced a couple months later with Mike Jerrick.
- Before Fox & Friends Saturday premiered, the Best of Fox & Friends was aired on Saturdays at 8:00 a.m. After the September 11, 2001, attacks, the Best of Fox & Friends were replaced by Fox & Friends Saturday.
[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, and Brian Kilmeade
Weekends
- 7:00–10:00 a.m. : Fox & Friends Weekend with Kelly Wright, Greg Kelly, and a third rotating anchor
[edit] Logos
 Fox & Friends logo from 2006 - Present |
| Fox News Channel |
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| Weekday Programming |
| Fox & Friends | America's Newsroom | Fox News Live | The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum | Studio B with Shepard Smith | Your World with Neil Cavuto | The Big Story with John Gibson | Special Report with Brit Hume | The Fox Report with Shepard Smith | The O'Reilly Factor | Hannity & Colmes | On the Record | Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld |
| Weekend Programming |
| Fox & Friends Weekend | The Cost of Freedom | Weekend Live | Fox News Live | Studio B Weekend | Big Story Weekend | The Beltway Boys | Fox News Watch | Fox Report Weekend | Geraldo at Large | Heartland | The Lineup | Journal Editorial Report | War Stories | Fox News Sunday | Hannity's America | The 1/2 Hour News Hour |
| Former Programming |
| The Edge • Fox Magazine • Drudge • DaySide • Fox Online |
