Fox News Channel , a sister channel to Sky News , was the first American cable news network to debut a permanent news ticker , at 10:49 am ET , on September 11 , 2001 , to relay information on the terrorist attacks that began two hours earlier with the separate crashes of two hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center . The scrolling ticker displayed headlines in yellow lettering on a black band , with a general " FOX " logo as a bullet to separate each story . From 2001 to 2004 , the ticker featured a Helvetica Narrow font , after which it was replaced by a normal Helvetica font that was used until 2013 , when the font switched to Avenir . The text was colored blue for a short time in 2007 , before reverting to yellow on September 24 of that year , starting with that day 's edition of the '' Fox Report '' . The ticker 's background was also made translucent in late 2007 , before reverting to a black band in 2008 , at which time a " Fox News " text logo replaced the " Fox " logo as the headline bullet ( this , in turn , was replaced with an abbreviated " FNC " text bullet in 2013 ; the text color itself was changed to white two years later ) . As of October 7 , 2013 , only '' Shepard Smith Reporting '' ( which debuted that day ) uses the Fox News ticker featuring white Avenir text with a red band , as opposed to a black band on other programming . In September 2017 , as part of a major graphics redesign , the Fox News ticker was shortened on both ends of the 16:9 display , with the " Fox News " text logo returning to the ticker . Fox News ' on-screen ticker is only removed during '' America 's Newsroom '' , '' Happening Now '' and '' Outnumbered '' , coverage of the annual State of the Union Address , and presidential elections , along with rebroadcasts of some special programming , such as documentaries and the former re-airings of Bill O'Reilly 's series of films based on his '' Killing ... '' book series examining historical assassinations and deaths for National Geographic Channel
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