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Megyn Kelly continues her rise in the ranks of Fox News Channel anchors, as the network Tuesday (Sept. 17) announced a revised primetime lineup that includes her new show, "The Kelly File."

Starting on Monday, Oct. 7 (all times Eastern), the very popular "On the Record With Greta Van Susteren" moves to 7 p.m.

"After 11 1/2 years number one at 10 p.m," Van Susteren says in a statement, "and driving home near midnight, I am 'to the moon' thrilled at a new challenge (and a new drive! Half the year I won't even need headlights!)."

"On the Record" replaces "The Fox Report With Shepard Smith," which is going away -- but Smith isn't. He is scaling back his regular Fnc slots to just 3 p.m., now home to "Studio B With Shepard Smith."

That hour now becomes "Shepard Smith Reporting." In addition, he's taken on a whole new role, as managing editor of...

Fox News Channel is launching a breaking news unit that will be led by Fnc’s Shepard Smith, Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said Thursday. Smith will serve as managing editor and chief news anchor of the new division, which will allow Smith to break into regularly scheduled programming as urgent news develops. The new division, which will incorporate ‘The Fox Report With Shepard Smith,” will launch this fall. Also read: Fox News’ Shepard Smith Stumping For ‘True Blood’ Cameo Under Smith’s new multi-year deal, he will also anchor a new show, “Shepard Smith Reporting,” a one-hour program at 3 p.

This story first appeared in the Feb. 10 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Today marks 10 years that the Fox News Channel has been No. 1 in cable news. Bill O’Reilly may be its face of opinion broadcasting, but the host of The Fox Report With Shepard Smith and Studio B With Shepard Smith has become its face for hard news. Smith, who has worked for Fox News since its launch in 1996, spoke -- reluctantly, as it turns out -- to The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul Bond. The Hollywood Reporter: What was it like in those early days at Fox News?

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NEW YORK -- Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw will join anchor Brian Williams and senior political analyst Tim Russert on Nov. 7 for NBC News' coverage of the midterm elections.

Williams will anchor the telecast, with help from Brokaw and Russert, from NBC's Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. The coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET with Nightly News, which the network said will be updated live for each feed. There will be hourly updates starting at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a 10-11 p.m. ET Decision 2006 special and a 10-11 p.m. PT edition for the West Coast.

Election-day coverage will begin on Today with Matt Lauer in Washington and Meredith Vieira in New York and with help from Russert and Brokaw.

MSNBC will have coverage all day beginning at 9 a.m., with Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough anchoring with Williams, Russert, David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell. A live edition of Hardball on election eve will begin at 7 p.m. and be offered to NBC affiliates. Olbermann and Matthews will begin coverage on MSNBC at 6 p.m. ET and go through the night, with a number of other NBC Uni journalists helping out.

Meanwhile, Fox News Channel said Monday that it would send Shepard Smith on the road beginning today in its You Decide 2006 tour. Smith, who was on the road several times this year with Studio B and The Fox Report for the channel's 10th anniversary, will be in Escondido, Calif., today. The show is traveling to Overland Park, Kan., Chesterfield, Mo., Germantown, Tenn., and Patterson, N.J.

NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel is adding to its multiplatform strategy with two daily video products called Fox News Flash.

The Flash is a 60-second newscast, one in the morning done by Fox & Friends and another in the afternoon by The Fox Report With Shepard Smith. It's available on FoxNews.com, MySpace and iTunes as well as to Cingular and Amp'd customers with video capability.

The Flash is just that: A fast-paced newscast much like The Fox Report that offers the news of the day and offbeat stories.

Fox News vp digital media Jeremy Steinberg said the goal is to drive awareness of the Fox News Channel as well as attracting a younger audience and meeting the news needs of MySpace users.

He said Fox News is experimenting with new forms of content and new forms of distribution.

NEW YORK -- Fox News Channel announced the promotion of two executives Monday, with David Rhodes being named vp news and Jay Wallace upped to executive producer of the channel's news programs. Rhodes will have responsibility for newsgathering and editorial content at Fox News Channel. Wallace, who will remain executive producer of The Fox Report With Shepard Smith and Studio B With Shepard Smith, will be responsible for all of the news shows. They report to senior vp news editorial John Moody. Both are Fox News Channel veterans, joining the company at its inception in 1996. Rhodes was director of newsgathering since 2002, when he was promoted from assignment manager of the national and foreign desks. His assignments have included managing the coverage of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 elections. He also has been an assignment editor at Fox News and assistant on the foreign-news desk.

NEW YORK -- At a time when the TV news business is looking to reinvent itself, a glimpse of the future might be found weeknights at 7 p.m. ET, when Fox News Channel begins its whirlwind tour through the day's headlines. The frenetically paced The Fox Report oftentimes features more than 60 stories in an hour, half a dozen stand-ups and interviews, fast-paced celebrity news and even a goofy animal story or two. And Shepard Smith, the 41-year-old Mississippi native whose star turn occurred a month ago during Hurricane Katrina, delivers the news in his trademark clipped, anchor-with-attitude style that has helped set the tone for Fox News' hard-news coverage and made him one of the channel's most prominent personalities. Smith, who started as a reporter with the channel at its inception in 1996, has received much attention for his reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Even those who question the Fox Report approach to journalism acknowledge that Smith has established his journalistic bona fides with his work on breaking and hard-news stories during the past decade.