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The Fox News Channel launched on the 7th of October 1996 with a signal reaching only 17 million cable subscribers. Rupert Murdoch had spent years building infrastructure for this venture after purchasing six television stations from Metromedia in May 1985.
Fox News maintains eight studios at its New York City headquarters located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. Studio F carries The Story with Martha MacCallum, The Five, Fox Democracy 2020, Fox & Friends, Outnumbered, The Faulkner Focus, and Fox News Primetime while Studio J airs America's Newsroom, Hannity, Fox News Live, Fox & Friends First, and Sunday Morning Futures.
In September 2018, 87 million U.S. households representing 91% of all television subscribers could receive Fox News. Prime time averages reached almost 3.7 million viewers with total day averages at 1.66 million during weeks before major events like the Boston Marathon bombing coverage.
Academic studies conducted between 1996 and 2000 found that in towns broadcasting Fox News, Republicans gained 0.4 to 0.7 percentage points in the 2000 presidential election. These results suggested Fox News convinced 3 to 28 percent of its viewers to vote Republican depending on audience measures according to research published in Political Communication journals.
Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes a former Republican political strategist and CNBC executive to serve as founding CEO just months before the debut. Ailes demanded five months of grueling workdays lasting fourteen hours each before the network went live.