The Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Jill Vejnoska blogs about yesterday’s Studio B and Fox Report shows in Atlanta…

There was some confusion about whether the public could watch Smith do his thing; initial information was that they would be able to, but the rotunda area atop the Chamber building wasn’t set up for spectators. Nonetheless, Fox made arrangements for fans who did show up to come up and watch “Studio B.” That was music to the ears of Becky James, a Tate, Ga., resident, who’d been waiting since noon with her daughter, Melissa Toel.

“We are BIG Fox News fans,” said James, who watched the broadcast and got to meet Smith afterwards. “I like the whole network, because they’re so straightforward. And I’m conservative and so are they.”

The AP’s David Bauder writes about FNC’s 10 years on the air…

Loved by some, loathed by others, Fox News Channel has been the biggest success in the cable industry and profoundly changed television news since its signal turned on Oct. 7, 1996.

Ailes can still remember a reporter’s laughter during the news conference to introduce the network. He had the last laugh: Fox News beat by a year his plan for overtaking CNN and grew to more than double its rivals in viewership. It made stars of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and put “fair and balanced” into news history textbooks.

Opinionated talk is now a staple on the TV dial, with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, Lou Dobbs on CNN and Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News. Fox was first.

“I watched CNN for a week before I went on and I kept trying to wake myself up,” Ailes said. “I kept nodding off and I realized they are biased, they are boring, they looked like a network that has never had any competition.”