Fox News Launches YouTube Channel For Presidential Election Home Stretch

Fox News Wednesday launched a channel on YouTube dedicated to politics and the presidential election, making it the first cable news network to have an election-focused presence on the video-sharing site.

The channel, titled "America's Election HQ," will be updated daily with content from Fox News Channel as well as content from FOXNews.com's "Strategy Room," a live political talk show streamed on the web.

Visit the channel here.

Full release below:

FOX News Channel Launches "America's Election HQ" YouTube CHANNEL DEDICATED EXCLUSIVELY TO POLITICS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

FOX News Channel (FNC) will launch a dedicated election channel on YouTube Wednesday, October 1st, announced Joel Cheatwood, the network's Senior Vice President for Development. The YouTube channel known as "America's Election HQ" (www.youtube.com/foxnewselectionhq) will feature the latest breaking political news, candidate interviews, polls and in-depth analysis of campaign issues. FNC is the only cable news network with a YouTube channel providing content focused exclusively on the last 30 days of the presidential election season.

The channel will showcase videos with FNC anchors including: Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Shepard Smith, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes and Greta Van Susteren. The site will also include reports from producers embedded with the presidential campaigns, as well as content from the FOXNews.com's "Strategy Room," the only live political talk show streamed weekdays on the Web from 9AM to 6PM ET.

In making the announcement, Cheatwood said, "Our partnership with YouTube creates a remarkable opportunity to expand our reach by engaging a new audience and providing another platform on which FOX News fans can access compelling content as we enter the final weeks of this historic presidential election season."

"America's Election HQ" visitors will be able to rate, share, comment on and search for video clips of their favorite programs, anchors and election topics. FNC is responsible for advertising sales for the channel, which will be promoted on-air and at FOXNews.com.

Additional network-branded YouTube channels to be unveiled in coming weeks include "FOX Business Network" and "FOX News Channel," which will highlight top news stories on the economy, business, personal finance, politics, health and entertainment, respectively.

FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour general news service covering breaking news as well as political, entertainment and business news. For more than six years, FNC has been the most watched cable news channel in the nation. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes.

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Comments

[richard99]

stop fighting in the middle east and start funding the middle east
http://www.myhomelandinsecurity.com verse and art for peace
and make the world a safer place
war is not the answer
becareful who you vote for next time around

[cagney57]

That terrorists fist bump ploy gets me every time LOL...The Ghost Hunters use it every Wednesday night at the end of their show.
Some one ought to tell Fox News there are terrorists over on the Sci Fi channel.

Obama/Biden '08

[PT6]

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US USES 25% of OIL
US HAS 3% of OIL

US IMPORTS 22% of OIL OR ALMOST 90% IN IMPORTS AFTER "DRILL BABY DRILL"

THE RESEARCH IS COMPLETE ON ALTERNATIVES.

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[WritusMaximus]

More like an RNC presence on YouTube. Too bad it is too late to save McSame.

[Bluedog12]

Britt Hume & Co. now that's a virus waiting to happen.

[Bedingo]

If, perchance, Obama & Biden win, what will happen to Fox News? Will they stay as the GPO (Government Propaganda Outlet) ? Gosh, I didn't think of it until, what will happen to that sounding board, Bill Orally? It is a scary thought that Bill Orally might become redundant (laid off)..

[estevancarlos]

Yeah, nice timing Fox. It took you... what a year?

[XME]

Fox News Motto: We'll do whatever it takes to try and rescue the GOP

I mean...Fair and Balanced

[MyVoiceHere]

Will they add their own polling video to the site?
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2008/09/30/letting-the-fox-count-the-hens/
Watch as the announcer sums up the hand votes.

[greatbear451]

Will it include that reporter who desperately tried to portray near-unanimous support for Obama in a PA diner as "evenly split"?

[WritusMaximus]

Will it include the Fox News lady that brought attention to a video of Obama and Michelle using a terrorist fist bump? She certainly is sharp, 'cuz millions upon millions (even people at Fox News) missed the dastardly signal! Fox shouldn't have reassigned her---I sure miss her insights!