Fox News Talk

Infobox Radio Station


airdate = January 2, 2006
name = Fox News Talk
frequency = XM168
SR145
area = United States
Canada
format = News / Talk radio
owner = Fox News Channel (News Corp.)
branding = "Fox News Talk"
slogan = Everywhere
class = Satellite Radio Station
webcast = [http://foxnews-foxnewstalk.wm.llnwd.net/foxnews_foxnewstalk Listen Live!] (WMA)

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 News Talk carries a combination of Fox News syndicated radio programming, Fox News Channel show audio simulcasts, and Fox newscasts at the top of the hour. Fox News radio programs carried include shows hosted by FNC personalities John Gibson, Alan Colmes, Brian Kilmeade, and former Judge Andrew Napolitano. Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity's radio program is not heard on the channel, as it is syndicated by Citadel Broadcasting's ABC Radio Networks unit.

Also carried is Westwood One's syndicated "The Radio Factor" with FNC personality Bill O'Reilly and the satellite-exclusive show "Fox Across America" with Spencer Hughes, along with a new Fox News Radio program hosted by Fox Business Network anchor Tom Sullivan.

History

After an advertisement appeared from XM Satellite Radio stating that Fox News Channel would soon be "only heard on XM Satellite Radio" and another stated to hear Fox News Talk "you can't be Sirius", FNC's programming vanished from Sirius Satellite Radio for unknown reasons, then returned to Sirius later. Despite pleas made to Sirius listeners by hosts Tony Snow (then) and Alan Colmes to ask Sirius to keep Fox News Channel programming, on January 1, 2006, FNC programming again disappeared from the Sirius lineup. On January 2, 2006, Fox News Talk premiered only on XM Satellite Radio.

An agreement was reached between Fox and Sirius within a couple of months, and Fox News Talk was added to the Sirius lineup, along with the return of the Fox News Channel audio simulcast, on March 14, 2006.

In April 2006, morning show host Tony Snow left the network to pursue his career as the White House Press Secretary. Replacing him was the duo of Brian Kilmeade, and Andrew Napolitano, with their new show titled Brian and the Judge.

XM Radio Canada added the channel on 2007-04-01.

In September 2007, Tom Sullivan joined Fox News Radio and Fox News Talk's own Spencer Hughes was cut down to one hour a day, from 2-3 PM Eastern. Sullivan and Hughes were former co-workers as local talk show hosts on Sacramento talk radio station KFBK. Sullivan's program continues to air on KFBK through the Fox News Radio syndication effort.

Over-the-air broadcasting

"Fox News Talk" is also the name of the distribution service Fox provides to broadcast radio stations for the talk shows it produces. This service does not include "Fox Across America" or "The Radio Factor".

External links

* [http://www.sirius.com/foxnewstalk Fox News Talk on Sirius Radio]
* [http://www.xmradio.com/programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=168 Fox News Talk on XM Radio]
* [http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/fox_news_talk_schedule.pdf Fox News Talk Schedule]