captions by closed captioning services hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. happy birthday fox news. we are 15 years old today. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. next tuesday we'll be in boston, officially celebrating fnc's birthday. we have a wild look back at 15 years on the factor. set those dvr's. tonight it's worth pointing out that the fox news channel has succeeded against all odds. when we launched in 1996. we had less than 20 million potential viewers. we were simply not on most cable systems because powerful companies like cnn and nbc didn't want us on. but we persevered. now fnc crushes cnn, msnbc, and cnbc in the ratings. the reason for that is two fold. first, fox news is the only tv news network that gives equal credibility to the conservative point of view.