FOX News - FOX News The neutrality of this article is disputed. The FOX News Channel is a 24-hour news channel launched in 1996 on United States cable and satellite networks as well as in syndication. It is available to 80 million subscribers in the U.S. and broadcasts primarily out of its studios in New York City. Launched on October 7, 1996 to 17 million cable subscribers, the nascent network quickly rose to prominence in the late 1990s as it started taking market share away from the Cable News Network (CNN). It has since surpassed CNN to become the number one news channel in the United States (FOX News also competes with the third-place cable news channel, MSNBC). FOX News Channel asserts that it is less biased and more.
Voter News Service - Voter News Service The Voter News Service was an consortium whose mission was to provide results for United States Presidential elections, so that individual organizations and networks would not have to do exit polling and vote tallying in parallel. The VNS included major United States television networks and newspapers: ABC CBS NBC CNN Fox The Associated Press A possibly unwritten secondary mission of the Voter News Service was to provide election results as quickly as possible on election night - a point which came to haunt the VNS in the 2000 Presidential Election. The VNS received intense criticism for its 'flip-flop' calling of the state of Florida in that election. During the course of the evening, it first called the closely contested state of Florida for Al.
U.S. television news - U.S. television news Television news originally ran for 15 minutes a night. Today, 24 hour news cable channels include 2 channels of CNN, 1 channel of FOX News, and NBC's CNBC (business reporting) and MSNBC (general reporting). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early History 2 Television News and Cable Television 3 Modern trends Early History Television news, regardless of the origin of transmission, began with Edward R. Murrow. Murrow was a radio news veteran at CBS, having reported live and on location at various locales during World War II. Murrow also pioneered the celebrity interview and the "face off" style interview (often with political figures), in which two or more interviewees respond to one another with the newsanchor(s) acting as moderator. The half-hour network news segment that.
Fox - Fox Foxes are small dog-like mammals in the Canidae family. Red Fox It includes the genus Vulpes and several others. V. vulpes is the world-wide Red Fox, often taken to be the fox. Foxes are not pack-hunting animals, but are solitary hunters that encroach on each others' territories usually only during the mating season. Foxes include members of the following genera: Vulpes ("foxes" in the strict sense, ten species) Alopex (Arctic Fox) Fennecus (Fennec) Urocyon (two species: Gray Fox and Island Fox) Lycalopex (Hoary Fox) Pseudalopex (South American foxes, four species, e.g. Culpeo) Dusicyon (Falkland Island Fox) Cerdocyon (Crab-eating Fox) The term fox does not include dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals who are members of the genus Canis. The red fox most commonly has red fur.
Fox Network - Fox Network The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It was launched in 1986, a year after News Corporation purchased TFC holdings, the parent company of the 20th Century Fox movie studio. The seed FOX stations were a chain of television stations purchased by News Corp. from John Kluge and his Metromedia Inc. in mid-1986. Metromedia's television stations in turn derived from the stations owned by the long-defunct DuMont television network. The network did not have a signifigant market share until the 1990s when News Corp. bought more TV station groups, including New World Communications, Chris-Craft Industries, BHC Communications and United Television, making it the largest owner of television stations in the country..
Fox Sports Net - Fox Sports Net The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net, are cable TV networks that were originally owned by separate companies. The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now Fox Sports New York), and the Prime Sports Networks, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Prime Sports Southwest (now Fox Sports Southwest). During the 1990s, News Corporation, which launched the Fox Network in 1986, bought both the Prime Sports and SportsChannel regional sports networks. Only three major regional sports networks are not part of Fox Sports Net (as of 2002): Sunshine Network (Florida sports), NESN (New England Sports Network), and Midwest Sportschannel (not part of the older.
Fox Networks - Fox Networks Fox Networks is a conglomerate of TV channels owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. They include the Fox Network, Fox News Channel and Fox Sports Net. The name derives from the Twentieth Century Fox film studio, which Murdoch had previously acquired and which is lumped with the television operations under Fox Inc within News Corporation..
Fox Sports World - Fox Sports World Fox Sports World is a North American digital cable network, owned by News Corporation, that specializes in sporting events outside North America. FSW maintains separate channels for the USA and Canada. FSW features live and tape-delayed soccer matches from Europe and Latin America, featuring at least one live match each week from the English Premier League and German Bundesliga. FSW also extensively covers North American soccer; it has shared broadcast rights for Major League Soccer, and airs at least one live match weekly from that league. It also has exclusive national rights in the USA for the United Soccer Leagues, and airs one live match weekly from USL's top league, the A-League. Another featured sport is rugby, especially Super 12, selected international matches,.
20th Century Fox - 20th Century Fox Twentieth (20th) Century Fox is shorthand for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation which is an American film studio located in the Century City area just west of Beverly Hills, California. The studio is presently a subsidiary of News Corporation, the Australian media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch. On July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film. Founder William Fox was forced out of Fox Film, and new leadership under president Sidney Kent in 1935 merged with Twentieth Century Pictures (formed 1933 when producer Darryl F. Zanuck left Warner Brothers to produce under Joseph Schenck, former head of United Artists and brother of Nicholas Schenck.) The hyphen was dropped from the studio's name in 1985. The.
Terry Fox - Terry Fox Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 - June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, cancer victim & activist. His name is one of the most recognizable in the country. Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and was raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. After losing his leg to cancer, the young athlete decided to run from coast to coast in order to raise money for cancer research. Beginning by dipping his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland, he aimed to dip it again in the Pacific Ocean at Vancouver, British Columbia. He could not finish his run, however, as the cancer spread to his lungs and he abandoned the course near Marathon, Ontario, near Thunder Bay. He died.
The Sporting News - The Sporting News The Sporting News is an American-based sports newspaper affiliated with the Fox network. The main sports it covers are the National Football League, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NASCAR, golf, soccer and National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball and football. It sponsors The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award for Major League Baseball. It was established in 1886..
Sky News - Sky News Sky News is Britain's first 24-hour television news channel, originally launched as part of the 4-channel Sky Television satellite package in February 1989. The channel originally operated on a shoestring but quickly gained a reputation for journalistic integrity. Although the channel has reportedly run at a loss for much of its history its award-winning journalism has brought Sky Television and its successor British Sky Broadcasting some much-needed prestige. Today Sky News continues to maintain an impressive standard of journalism in the face of tough competition. It is undoubtedly the inspiration for Fox News, with which it sometimes exchanges material. Main competitors are BBC News 24 and the ITV News Channel External Links Sky News Homepage Sky News Tribute.
News Corporation - News Corporation The News Corporation Ltd. is an Australian media conglomerate that operates world-wide. Its major shareholder and managing director is Rupert Murdoch. It is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The holdings of News Corp include: Books HarperCollins book publishing company ReganBooks Zondervan Newspapers Australian newspapers the Herald-Sun The Daily Telegraph The Australian UK newspapers the tabloid The Sun the broadsheet The Times US newspapers and magazines the New York Post Magazines InsideOut SmartSource TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide Weekly Standard Music Mushroom Records Festival Records Satellite BSkyB, United Kingdom Foxtel, Australia Hughes Electronics, North and South America DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider DirectTV Latin America DirecWay, Satellite Internet service provider PanAmSat Hughes Network Systems, satellite Internet.
News anchor - News anchor A News Anchor (US) or Newsreader (UK and AU) is a person that works in television or radio that hosts a regular news program or provides occasional on air news updates. News anchors generally read prepared scripts, but in emergencies, they often have to ad-lib commentary on the air. Many news anchors are also involved in writing and/or editing the news for their programs. Sometimes news anchors interview guests and moderate panels or discussions. Some provide commentary for the audience during parades and other events. American news anchors are frequently imitated and lampooned, including being the subject of long running gags on Saturday Night Live and the subject of sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murphy Brown and NewsRadio. Notable American News Anchors.
List of assets owned by News Corporation - List of assets owned by News Corporation List of assets owned by the News Corporation: Film Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Espanol Twentieth Century Fox International Twentieth Century Fox Television Fox Searschlight Pictures Fox Studios Australia Fox Studios Baja Fox Studios Los Angeles Fox Television Studious Television BSkyB Fox Broadcasting Company Fox Sports Australia Fox Television Stations Foxtel Phoenix Television Star Group Limited Sky Television Italy Cable Fox Movie Channel Fox News Channel Fox Sports Channel Fox Sports Enterprises Fox Sports En Espanol Fox Sports Net Fox Sports World FUEL Television FX National Geographic Channel Speed Channel Sports Los Angeles Dodgers Magazines and Inserts InsideOut donna hay News America Marketing SmartSource The Weekly Standard Gemstar Newspapers The Sun The Times Books Miscellaneous Related Link: List of who owns.
Keith Olbermann - Keith Olbermann Keith Olbermann hosts the news-show "Countdown" on American cable channel MSNBC. The hour-long nightly show counts-down five news stories. While most shows on MSNBC invite on a number of guests at once to give opinions, "Countdown" is more geared towards presenting straight-reporting, some of which previously aired on NBC broadcast US television news. Olbermann hosts as a centrist, making ironic remarks about both liberals and conservatives. On each broadcast, the number one story of the night is preceded by a "Keeping Tabs" segment which discusses celebrity gossip and other light matters. According to Dash Riprock of americanpolitics.com, Olbermann "tells the truth, and he does it in a sharp, subtlety stated, but unmistakable style. It's sad to realize that it is truly such an oddity these days to see someone.
James Carville - and fiery rhetoric made him a very memorable member of the Clinton Administration. Carville would often appear on American news programs defending the President, even during the days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He became synonymous with presidential loyalty, and even wrote a book on the topic entitled Stickin': The Case for Loyalty. Strangely, he is married to his conservative counterpart, Mary Matalin who has served similar roles for Republicans such as vice-president Dick Cheney. Carville currently co-hosts the CNN debate show Crossfire. Quotes "Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs." "But one of Clinton's problems was, the interest groups don't care about the working poor. The Republicans don't care about.
Jacques Marquette - Mississippi River and invited him to come teach further south. Due to wars between the Hurons at La Pointe and the neighboring Dakota people, however, Father Marquette had to relocate to the Mackinac Straits, where he informed his superiors about the rumored river, and requested permission to explore it. Leave was granted, and in 1673 Marquette was joined by Louis Joliet, a French Canadian explorer. They departed from Mackinac on May 17, with two canoes and five other Frenchmen. They followed Lake Michigan to Green Bay and up the Fox River. From here, they portaged to the Wisconsin River, which they were told led to the river they sought. On June 17 they entered the Mississippi, becoming the first Europeans to do so. The Joliet-Marquette expedition travelled to within 700 km.
John Peel - century song D'ye ken John Peel? He was a Cumberland farmer, who kept a pack of fox hounds. John Peel (born 1939) is a British disc jockey and radio presenter. John Peel was one of the original DJs of BBC Radio 1 in 1967 and the only one still on Radio 1 today. Known for the extraordinary range of his taste in music and the not infrequent blunders (for example playing records at the wrong speed) which mark his shows (see John Peel Sweet Eating Game), John Peel is one of the most popular and respected DJs in the United Kingdom. He was born John Robert Parker Ravenscroft in 1939 in Heswell near Liverpool. After finishing his National Service in 1962 he went to America and initially worked for WRR Radio.
Jorge Ramos - a Mexican born television reporter who is the anchor of Univision's news show Noticias Univision. Ramos was a journalist in his native Mexico and immigrated to the United States, going through the hardships of many recent immigrants. He eventually attended the University of California Los Angeles where he furthered his journalistic activities. Ramos, who joined the News program in 1985 and Univision a short time before that, has interviewed multiple world leaders, including Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Vicente Fox, Hugo Chavez, Ernesto Samper, Ernesto Zedillo and many others. He has also been reporting from many places when historic events happen, including Kuwait for the Gulf War, New York, where he reported live from Ground Zero after the September 11 2001 attacks, and Mexico.
