Fox Amp; Friends Article Index for
Fox
Website Links For
Fox
 

Information About

Fox Amp; Friends




  Caption Title card for Fox & Friends
  Genre News / Talk Program
  Camera Multi-camera
  Picture Format 480i
  Runtime 180 Minutes
  Starring Gretchen Carlson , Steve Doocy , and Brian Kilmeade (weekdays)<br> Kelly Wright , Greg Kelly , and Paige Hopkins (weekends)
  Location New York City
  Language English
  Network Fox News Channel
  First Aired February 1 , 1998
  Last Aired present
  Preceded By ''Fox X-press'', ''Fox News Now''
  Website http://wwwfoxnewscom/foxfriends
  Imdb Id 0185065
  Tv Com Id 2263


''Fox & Friends'' is an American Morning Television Show on the Fox News Channel .


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 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 .Tim Cuprisin, "Plagued by soft ratings, O'Briens ousted as CNN morning anchors", Milwaukee ''Journal Sentinel'' , 2007-04-11 .


PERSONALITIES


''Fox & Friends First''



Weekdays



Weekends




Regular contributors



Previous hosts



CONTROVERSIES

See Also: Fox News Channel controversies


''Fox & Friends'' has been criticized the group Bias . Some instances 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!" {Link without Title}


  • 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." {Link without Title}


  • 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 of reporting the story without checking the facts. {Link without Title}



SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES ET )

Weekdays



LOGOS