Fox & Friends

Fox & Friends is an American daily morning news and talk program that airs on Fox News. It premiered on February 1, 1998, and is currently hosted by Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones on weekdays. Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth host on weekends.

It begins at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone with the latest Fox News Live headlines and news of the morning and continues with a variety of segments including current events, interviews, updates of news stories with correspondents, political analysis from the hosts, and entertainment segments.

History
Fox & Friends evolved from Fox X-press, Fox News Channel's original morning news program.

After the September 11 attacks, an additional hour was added to the beginning of the weekday show, but branded as a separate show called Fox & Friends First. It was the first Fox News show 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. The Fox & Friends First title was reintroduced on March 5, 2012, also as a separate show airing one hour before the main three-hour program, but using a separate slate of rotating anchors.

Format
Fox & Friends has been described as being more akin to the Big Three television networks than its cable competitors (particularly CNN This Morning and MSNBC's Morning Joe), with a mix of news, entertainment and lifestyle-oriented segments, and a generally casual presentation. However, as with the morning shows on competing cable news channels, its news content largely concentrates on politics. Currently, Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones co-host the program Monday-Friday. Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth co-host on the weekends.

Some regular fill in hosts include Todd Piro, Katie Pavlich, Joey Jones, Kayleigh McEnany, Griff Jenkins, Lisa Boothe, Nicole Saphier Carley Shimkus and Guy Benson.

Recurring segments

 * The 'Summer Concert Series' features a live music concert in the Fox News Plaza each Friday from Memorial Day weekend though Labor Day weekend.
 * 'So Sue Me' is a segment in which Peter Johnson, Jr. (an appellate and trial lawyer) offers his perspective on current events with legal implications.

Ratings
The New York Times has reported the show is one of the most successful on the network. After the arrival of Elisabeth Hasselbeck in September 2013, the show climbed 23 percent in total viewers compared to its average for the third quarter of 2013, and 22 percent in the key 25–54 news demo. For Hasselbeck's first four weeks on the show, Fox & Friends averaged 1.226 million total viewers, up from the 1.058 that the show averaged for the third quarter of the year.

In February 2017, the program's average ratings increased to around 1.7 million viewers, fueled by the recent inauguration of Republican candidate Donald Trump as president.

Weekdays

 * Steve Doocy, co-host; 1998–present
 * Ainsley Earhardt, co-host; 2016–present
 * Brian Kilmeade, co-host; 1998–present
 * Lawrence Jones, co-host, enterprise reporter; 2023–present
 * Janice Dean, co-host/meteorologist; 2004–present
 * Carley Shimkus, news anchor; 2021–present

Weekends

 * Will Cain, co-host; 2020–present
 * Rachel Campos-Duffy, co-host; 2021–present
 * Pete Hegseth, co-host; 2017–present
 * Rick Reichmuth, meteorologist; 2006–present

Former

 * Jedediah Bila, weekend co-host from 2019 to 2021 (replaced by Rachel Campos-Duffy)
 * Dave Briggs, weekend co-host; left at the end of 2012
 * Alisyn Camerota, weekend co-host; left on September 28, 2013
 * Gretchen Carlson, weekdays co-host from 2006 to 2013 (replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck)
 * Tucker Carlson, weekend co-host from 2012 to 2016
 * Kiran Chetry, weekend co-host from 2005 to 2007
 * Elisabeth Hasselbeck, weekdays co-host from 2013 to 2015 (replaced by Ainsley Earhardt)
 * Ed Henry, weekend co-host from 2017 to 2019 (replaced by Will Cain)
 * E. D. Hill, weekdays co-host from 1998 to 2006 (replaced by Gretchen Carlson)
 * Juliet Huddy, former weekend and substitute co-host
 * Abby Huntsman, weekend co-host from 2016 to 2018 (replaced by Jedediah Bila)
 * Mike Jerrick, former weekend co-host
 * Anna Kooiman, weekend co-host from 2012 to 2016 (replaced by Abby Huntsman)
 * Jillian Mele, weekdays news anchor from 2017 to 2021 (replaced by Carley Shimkus)
 * Maria Molina, Fox Cast meteorologist from 2010 to 2016
 * Clayton Morris, weekend co-host from 2008 to 2017 (replaced by Pete Hegseth)
 * Julian Phillips, former weekend co-host
 * Kelly Wright, weekend co-host from 2006 to 2008