Fox & Friends

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Infobox Television
show_name = Fox & Friends


caption = former Title card for Fox & Friends
genre = Talk program
camera = Multi-camera
picture_format = 480i
runtime = 180 minutes
starring = Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade (weekdays)
Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, and Alisyn Camerota (weekends)
country = flag|United States
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://www.foxnews.com/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 6:00 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 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 was the first FNC program to air live for the day, starting at 6:00 a.m. It was discontinued on July 13, 2008 and replaced with an additional hour of "Fox & Friends". (Such a change, however, is only cosmetic: Both shows were both produced by the same staff and cycled the same anchors, the only difference being the graphics package.)

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

Weekdays

*Steve Doocy, co-host and FoxCast weather personality
*Gretchen Carlson, co-host and headline reader
*Brian Kilmeade, co-host and sports-news anchor

Weekends

*Clayton Morris, co-host
*Alisyn Camerota, co-host
*Dave Briggs, co-host
*Rick Reichmuth, FoxCast meteorologist

Regular contributors

* Dr. Manny Alvarez, FNC medical contributor
* Mancow Muller, Chicago radio personality who regularly chats with weekday hosts
* Jill Dobson, FNC entertainment correspondent
* Judge Andrew Napolitano, FNC Legal Contributor

Previous hosts

*Louis Aguirre, weekday co-host, now a co-host of Miami WSVN's Deco Drive
*Tiki Barber, "Fox & Friends First" Tuesday co-host ("Tiki Tuesday") now on NBC's "Football Night In America" and the "Today Show"
*Kiran Chetry, weekend co-host and Fox and Friends 1st host, now at CNN
*Allison Costarene, weekday co-host
*Ainsley Earhardt, weekend headline anchor
*Lauren Green, weekday headline anchor,religious correspondent
*Courtney Friel, weekend host and entertainment reporter in 2007
*E.D. Hill, weekday co-host, now a "America's Election Headquarters" Fill in
*Page Hopkins, first did weekday updates after Lauren left, then did weekend updates, then hosted weekend show.
*Juliet Huddy, weekend co-host,now co-hosting the Mike and Juliet Show on the Fox Network
*Gregg Jarrett, "America's Election Headquarters" Weekend Anchor
*Mike Jerrick, weekend co-host,now co-hosting The Mike and Juliet show on the Fox network
*Uma Pemmaraju, "America's Election Headquarters" Sunday Anchor
*Julian Phillips, weekend co-host
*Bob Sellers, weekend co-host, no longer at WTTG (FOX) in Washington, DC
*Kelly Wright, weekend co-host, moved to "America's Election Headquarters"

Controversies

"Fox & Friends" has been criticized for appearing to have a conservative bias. Some instances include.

* During the same week as the September 11th attacks occurred, Kilmeade had made the Islamopobic statement "Islam or Is-lame" insinuating the religion is lame.

* 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." [http://mediamatters.org/items/200512070002] However, Mancow is not a host on the show, but an opinionated comedian who appears as a guest.

* During a 2007 episode, "Fox & Friends" hosts repeated the false claim that presidential candidate Barack Obama had attended a Muslim religious school in Indonesia during his childhood, and reported that the campaign team of rival presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was investigating the matter. The claim 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. [http://mediamatters.org/items/200701300007] Fox was forced to retract the story, and for some time, Obama refused to appear on Fox News altogether. News Editorial VP John Moody chastised the show in an internal memo, stating "For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does it mean it is ready for air on FNC."

School superintendent Leon Levesque of Lewiston Maine sued Fox News Network, and "Fox and Friends" co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade for slander after an April 23, 2007 "Fox & Friends" parody story about a student prank in Maine and the school superintendent's reaction. Doocy and Kilmeade erronously reported the story as true at the time. Freelance writer Nicholas Plagman was the source of the story and falsely listed the Associated Press as the source of the information. Leversque contacted FOX after the story was run, and a retraction was aired. The suit was thrown out in 2008, with the court, under U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby concluding that, although the Fox defendants acted unprofessionally in not confirming the quotations and "were certainly gullible", there was no showing of malice on their part. [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jm5fuAMctHaGbZZ8X8MJo_VOqvuAD913E7S00]

Schedule (all times ET)

Weekdays
* 6:00–9:00 a.m. : "Fox & Friends" with Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian KilmeadeWeekends
* 7:00–10:00 a.m. : "Fox & Friends Weekend" with Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, and Alisyn Camerota

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