History
Mike Schneider, previously of NBC and ABC News, hosted FNC's first "regular" newscast, the Schneider Report. This newscast included interviews with guests and was kept as close to center as possible. After Schneider left Fox News Channel, the program morphed into the Fox News Report, which became simply the Fox Report.
This was the first incarnation of a flashy, fast-paced newscast that Shepard Smith has since perfected. In particular, he started the trend of peppering news scripts with participles instead of using complete sentences. Jon Scott and Catherine Crier co-anchored until Crier left to join Court TV (now truTV). A short time later, Paula Zahn took over as the solo host of the then-called Fox Report with Paula Zahn. Paula anchored the newscast until she became host of The Edge, at which point the slot was given to Shepard Smith.
Originally, the Fox Report aired five nights a week (Monday-Friday). But in 2001 (shortly after 9/11), the newscast expanded to seven nights a week as the weekend editions were added. Rick Folbaum would anchor the Saturday, and later the weekend editions and substitute for Smith until he left FNC at the end of 2005, when he was replaced by Trace Gallagher. He anchored the weekend editions until he was re-assigned by FNC in 2007. Laurie Dhue, who was originally the Sunday anchor of the program, became the weekend anchor until her departure from FNC in early 2008, when Julie Banderas became the weekend anchor. Near the end of 2010, Harris Faulkner took over as the weekend anchor.
The Fox Report unveiled a new studio, Studio E on September 24, 2007. However, the weekend editions with then-weekend anchor Julie Banderas continued to be produced in Fox News' main studio until they also moved to Studio 12H (HD set) in December 2008.
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.
During the week of September 26-October 2, 2011, The Fox Report moved into its former studios, Studio E, which was used from September 2007 to December 2008 (while Studio B moved into the newsroom and Shepard Smith announced on the September 28th broadcast that the Fox Report and Studio B will move into a new set (a modified Studio 8H) starting Monday, October 10, 2011.
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