Studio B (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Studio B


caption =
genre = News/Talk program
camera = Multi-camera
picture_format = 480i NTSC
runtime = 60 minutes
presenter = Shepard Smith
country = flag|United States
location = New York City
language = English
network = Fox News Channel
first_aired = August 2002
last_aired = present
preceded_by = "Fox News Live"
website = http://www.foxnews.com/studiob
tv_com_id = 32220

"Studio B" is an American news/talk television program on the Fox News Channel, hosted by Shepard Smith.

About the show

Broadcast live at 3:00pm ET Monday through Friday, the program continues coverage of stories followed during prior hours of Fox News programs. Named after the studio from which it broadcasts, "Studio B" often takes a swifter pace compared to the network's other programming, making a larger focus of the program on breaking-news events with live correspondents. The coverage includes correspondents on location, in studio, in addition to analysis from pundits or experts.

Prior to the program's relaunch on April 23, 2007, and to a larger extent summer 2007, "Studio B" was commonly seen as more laid-back, including a short segment of smalltalk after the bottom-of-the-hour headlines between Smith and Jane Skinner commonly about soft news or irrelevant stores of the day. The segment was known as "Skinnerville."

The program's relaunch created a new focus on urgency, with the music used for the program being faster-paced and more of a drum-driven style, in addition to the graphics becoming flashier and more attention-grabbing than previous editions. The event also included the conclusion of the weekend edition of "Studio B", hosted by Trace Gallagher, which was started in February 2006.

"Studio B" replaced the 3-4pm hour of "Fox News Live" (also hosted by Smith) in 2002, and the weekend hour of "Fox News Live" in 2005. The weekend editions were discontinued in May 2007, when the 3-4pm hour was replaced by reruns of "War Stories with Oliver North", or other taped programming.

Smith recently revealed that "Studio B" will soon get a more expansive overhaul, which may include name and format changes. This is partly because FNC's physical Studio B is no longer available for the network's use.

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External links

* [http://www.foxnews.com/studiob "Studio B" on FoxNews.com]
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1260,00.html Shepard Smith's Bio on FoxNews.com]