Newscasts
The network also provides around-the-clock newscasts on the hour and on the half-hour. Depending on a station's affiliation, they either receive a five-minute newscast or a one-minute newscast. Breaking news reports (dubbed Fox News Alerts), correspondent and expert interview availabilities, special broadcasts marking historic or newsworthy events, anchored "as-it-happens" coverage, and clean feeds of news events complete the affiliate service package. Affiliates also have access to a web site with a constantly updating selection of newsmaker audio and correspondent reports.
The five minute audio version of the on-the-hour newscast, consisting of two minutes of news, one minute of ads or Fox promotions, and two more minutes of news, is available as a podcast. As of 2011, typically only one MP3 file, the most recent one, is available at any time. The Eastern Time hour number is incorporated into the filename (for example, 5minpodcast21.mp3 for 9PM). However, if there has been exceptional news (a Fox News Alert), the file for that hour's podcast will be retained for a few hours. The current hour's file is usually available within 10 minutes of its broadcast, i.e., by a quarter past the top of the hour.
Newscasts are regularly anchored by Dave Anthony, Lisa Brady, Ron Flatter, Jane Metzler, Bill Vitka, Lisa Lacerra, Chris Foster, Pam Puso, Sal Giangrasso, and Steve Knight with Shepherd Smith at 5:00 p.m. Eastern during weekdays. Correspondents include Jeff Monosso and Courtney Kealy in New York; Mike Majchrowitz (White House), Rich Johnson and Jared Halpern in Washington; In Los Angeles, Jessica Rosenthal and Sabrina Sabbagh. Jennifer Keiper reports from Chicago. Eben Brown reports from Miami. Simon Owens in London, Emily Wither in Jerusalem, Lesley Yeomans in Melbourne and James Blears in Mexico City serve as foreign correspondents. Daily short commentaries are delivered by Todd Starnes, who, like Fox News Radio personalities Tom Sullivan and Spencer Hughes, also came to the network from Sacramento's KFBK.
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