The Fox Report is an American evening television news program on Fox News , which debuted on September 13, 1999 as a seven-night-a-week broadcast with Shepard Smith as main anchor of the program until it was relegated to weekends only after the October 4, 2013 broadcast. Since June 16, 2018, the Fox Report has been anchored by Jon Scott .
28-520: Fox Report is broadcast live on Saturday and Sunday evenings at 6:00 P.M. Guest hosts for the program include Molly Line , Bill Melugin, Bryan Llenas and Christine Coleman. The program is described as Fox News Channel's "newscast of record" and utilizes a similar story length and pacing as competing evening news programs aired by the Big Three broadcast television networks ( ABC World News Tonight , CBS Evening News , and NBC Nightly News ). It
56-581: A message-in-a-bottle that he pretended to discover on the beach while clam digging on Long Island Sound . She announced their engagement during an episode of America's Election Headquarters on September 21, 2008. They wed at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church on August 29, 2009. They have three children and reside in New York City. In December 2022, Banderas announced on her Twitter account that she and Sansone had separated. On February 9, 2023, Banderas announced on Fox's Gutfeld! that she
84-605: A Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Political Science (1999). In 1995, she competed in the Miss West Virginia Pageant for the first time as Miss Tucker County. In 1997, she competed again in the Miss West Virginia Pageant, as Miss Greater Bluefield Area, where she was among the Top 10 Semi-Finalists. She also competed in 1999 as Miss Canaan Valley. For the fourth and final try, she competed for
112-607: A Boston affiliate (Dec 2002-Dec 2005). While at WFXT, Line covered the sentencing of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the Station nightclub fire — a disaster that killed 100 people. Line serves as a primary guest anchor/host on Fox News Live , The Big Weekend Show , Fox Report , The Faulkner Focus , Outnumbered and America Reports . Before her work at WFXT, Line served as an anchor/reporter at WXXA (Channel 23) in Albany, NY (2000-2002). She got her start in journalism as
140-451: A general-assignment reporter. In 2008, she replaced Laurie Dhue as the anchor for Fox Report Weekend . In 2010, she took maternity leave with Harris Faulkner assuming her responsibilities. She returned to Fox News from leave near the end of 2010 and was reassigned to the position of general news correspondent. In June 2006, she gained international media attention for an on-air clash with Shirley Phelps-Roper , former spokeswoman for
168-407: A new graphics package incorporating a lower-third graphics set mirroring that previously rolled out on two other Fox News shows, The Five and Happening Now . Shepard Smith presented the show from a modified Studio 12H that featured additional monitors as well as "The Cube," although the overhead platform and accompanying staircase (which had been part of the set since 2008) were removed. During
196-771: A photographer/reporter at WDTV in Bridgeport, WV (1999-2000). Most recently, Line reported live from the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. She has also covered the Cartoon Network " Aqua Teen Hunger Force " scandal and the arrest and extradition of Neil Entwistle , the British born man accused of murdering his wife and baby in January 2006. Julie Banderas Julie Banderas (born Julie Bidwell , September 25, 1973 )
224-588: A separate anchor format for the Fox Report ' s weekend broadcasts, with Julie Banderas returning to the program as anchor of the Saturday edition; Harris Faulkner would retain her role as anchor of the Sunday editions (her removal from the Saturday broadcasts was the result of her being named co-host of FNC's weekday panel talk show Outnumbered . Banderas initially served as one of three rotating anchors of
252-559: A slip of the tongue during a story on Jennifer Lopez , mistakenly stating that residents from the Bronx neighborhood where the actress/singer grew up would rather give her a "curb job than a blow job , er... a bl-block party " if she returned there). On September 24, 2007, the program relocated to Studio E, an elaborate, state-of-the-art set (which is also used by fellow FNC shows Fox & Friends and Your World with Neil Cavuto ) which incorporates LED and plasma projection screens,
280-466: Is an American television news anchor for Fox News . She hosted Fox Report Weekend before moving to a weekday anchor role, and currently serves as a primary weekday fill-in anchor on programs such as America's Newsroom , The Faulkner Focus , and Outnumbered . She is also a regular guest host on The Big Weekend Show and a frequent guest on Gutfeld! . Banderas is the daughter of Fabiola R. and Howard Dexter Bidwell (1930–2010). Her mother
308-863: Is an immigrant from Colombia ; her father was a Navy veteran and civil engineer who started a company called Consolidated Precast, Inc. Banderas has a sister and four half siblings from her father's first marriage. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Emerson College . Banderas began her career at WLVI-TV in Boston. She went on to serve as a local news anchorwoman for WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia ; WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut and WNYW in New York City. She joined Fox News in March 2005 as
SECTION 10
#1732791235587336-514: Is the highest-rated newscast among the United States cable news channels, averaging about 1.5 million viewers per broadcast – far less than even the lowest-rated broadcast network newscast (CBS at 6.5 million). The program features Fox News correspondents and guests analyzing issues in shorter-form segments, which typically run no more than three or four minutes per story. Up to 70 stories are covered within each broadcast. The program eschews
364-498: The Fox broadcast network. The Fox Report was rebroadcast at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time weeknights from the program's debut until the late-night airing was replaced by the comedy/news commentary show Red Eye on February 6, 2007. In lieu of a national news program (other than the political talk show Fox News Sunday ) on the Fox network or local news programming on the service itself at
392-611: The Westboro Baptist Church , about which she later stated, "These people should be arrested, and I understand the right to protest, but when you disgrace not only our fallen soldiers, but when you disgrace innocent young children, I swear. Lock 'em up. Throw away the key. Give 'em the death penalty. I think it's disgusting." Banderas' former husband Andrew J. Sansone, a member of the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity and founding president of both Old Rock Media and Big Apple Channel, proposed marriage to her with
420-568: The Record w/ Greta Van Susteren , which would be displaced from its longtime 10:00 p.m. Eastern time slot to make room for The Kelly File when that program debuted on October 7, 2013. In addition, as part of a new multi-year contract with Fox News Channel the day of the announcement of the evening schedule realignment, FNC also announced that Shepard Smith would be reassigned to serve as managing editor of its new breaking news division (under which capacity, Smith would serve as primary anchor of
448-430: The Saturday broadcast, along with John Roberts and Shannon Bream , before becoming sole anchor later in the year. Molly Line Molly Line is an American news correspondent who works for Fox News Channel . She joined Fox News as a Boston-based correspondent in January 2006. A 1995 graduate of Tucker County High School , Hambleton, West Virginia , Line attended college at Virginia Tech where she received
476-449: The cube – as a major element, both the weekday and weekend broadcasts were produced out of the new studio. The Fox Report debuted a new on-air look on September 28, 2009, which included new graphics and a remix of the previous theme music. In early 2011, Harris Faulkner took over as the program's weekend anchor, a move made long-term on April 25, 2011. On October 10, 2011, the Fox Report (and its sister program, Studio B ) introduced
504-538: The network's breaking news coverage), while remaining as its chief news anchor and anchor of his mid-afternoon news program (which was retitled from Studio B to Shepard Smith Reporting ). Smith anchored his last edition of the Fox Report on the day of the announcement, with the weeknight editions being anchored by substitutes until the program was relegated exclusively to weekends after the October 4, 2013 edition. On May 12, 2014, FNC announced that it would return to
532-504: The program included interviews with guests and was kept as close to center in terms of its political coverage as possible. After Schneider left FNC in 1997, the program was reformatted as the Fox News Report , with Jon Scott and Catherine Crier taking over as co-anchors. At its start, the Fox Report aired on Monday through Friday evenings. After Crier left FNC to become a host/correspondent for Court TV (now truTV ) and Scott
560-531: The program introduced a new music and graphics package. However, the weekend editions of the program continued to be produced from Fox News' main studio. On December 10, 2008, the program moved again to Studio 12H, a set designed for high-definition broadcasts that was first used for the Fox News-produced 2008 Election Night coverage on the Fox broadcast network, with "The Cube" – a large video display object featuring display of imagery on three facets of
588-501: The time of its launch, the program was also simulcast on Foxnet (a national cable feed of the Fox network distributed to markets without access to a local Fox station) from 1996 (at the program's inception as The Schneider Report ) until Foxnet ceased operations on September 12, 2006. When Fox News Channel launched on October 7, 1996, the network debuted its first "regular" evening newscast, The Schneider Report . Anchored by former NBC News and ABC News correspondent Mike Schneider ,
SECTION 20
#1732791235587616-617: The title in 2000, as Miss Rhododendron, where she received the Preliminary Talent Award and was named 3rd Runner Up to Miss West Virginia. According to her Facebook page, she became engaged on Thursday, June 9, 2011. She was married on July 21, 2012 at Jackson Community Church, Jackson, New Hampshire. Molly Line was also a ski instructor as she mentioned on air during episode E132 of "Outnumbered", on July 4, 2023 approximately 12:40 pm Eastern Time. Prior to joining FNC she worked as an anchor/reporter for WFXT (Channel 25),
644-489: The trend of peppering news scripts with participles instead of using complete sentences. Shortly after the September 11th attacks in 2001, Fox News Channel added editions of the program on Saturday and Sunday evenings, expanding the Fox Report to seven nights a week. Rick Folbaum served as the original anchor of the Saturday broadcasts, he later added the Sunday editions to his duties and became substitute for Smith on
672-679: The use of "talking heads", and focuses on field reporting and comments from individuals directly involved in the story. One common feature is "Around the World in 80 Seconds" (a play on the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days ), a segment taking a quick look at interesting stories from around the world. "Across America" is a similarly formatted segment – albeit not subject to time restrictions – which features human interest stories culled from local newscasts seen on affiliates of
700-435: The week of September 26, 2011 to October 2, 2011, the Fox Report moved back into its former Studio E (with Studio B being moved into the newsroom), while renovations on Studio 8H were ongoing; both the Fox Report and Studio B were moved into a new set at the studio on October 10, 2011. On September 12, 2013, Fox News announced that it would cut the weeknight editions of the Fox Report and in order to make room for On
728-437: The weeknight editions until Folbaum left FNC in early 2006, when he was replaced by Trace Gallagher , who himself anchored the weekend editions until he was reassigned by FNC in 2007 to become the program's chief correspondent. Laurie Dhue , who was the original anchor of the program's Sunday edition from 2001 to 2005, returned to the program as anchor of both the Saturday and Sunday broadcasts until she departed FNC in 2008, Dhue
756-490: Was subsequently removed as an anchor, Paula Zahn became the solo anchor of the program, then retitled as the Fox Report with Paula Zahn . Zahn anchored the newscast until she became host of The Edge later that year, at which point Shepard Smith was named the program's main anchor and its title amended as simply the Fox Report . This marked the first incarnation of what would become the flashy, fast-paced newscast it evolved into under Smith's tenure. In particular, Smith started
784-458: Was then succeeded on the weekend broadcasts by Julie Banderas . Throughout 2007, the program shifted toward a more serious tone, removing pre-break story teasers, jokes, and a number of other elements, including the "G-Block", a segment featuring mostly entertainment and celebrity news (which became notable for an incident in November 2002 that eventually went viral in which Shepard Smith made
#586413