One of the founding Channel anchors, Uma Pemmaraju, has died at the age of 64.
Pemmaraju was behind the anchor desk when the cable news channel launched in October 1996. 
At the time, she was one of the only Indian-American BBC World News Today anchors who had managed to make it to the national level. 
'We are deeply saddened by the death of Uma Pemmaraju, who was one of Fox News Channel's founding anchors and was on the air the day we launched. 
Her cause of death was not immediately made public. 
Uma Pemmaraju, one of the first Fox News Channel anchors in 1996, has died at the age of 64
Uma Pemmaraju is pictured alongside her daughter, Kirina Alana Devi, right
'Uma was an incredibly talented journalist as well as a warm and lovely person, best known for her kindness to everyone she worked with.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to her entire family,' said Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott.
Pemmaraju's first role at the news channel was anchoring Fox News Now and Fox On Trends.
She then left the network but rejoined once again in 2003 as an anchor fill-in host on the channel.
Pemmaraju also hosted other programs on the cable network including Fox News Live and The Fox Report interviewing many high-profile newsmakers, including the Dalai Lama.
Born in Rajahmundry, India, but raised in San Antonio, Texas, having moved there at the age of six, Pemmaraju learned her journalism skills working at local television stations in Dallas, Baltimore and then WBZ Boston. 
In Baltimore she won an Emmy Award for a report about the rescue of a child who nearly drowned.
RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Pemmaraju learned her journalism skills working at local television stations in Dallas and then WBZ Boston, pictured above
Uma Pemmaraju, left, is pictured alongside her daughter, Kirina Alana Devi, center
She then moved to New York to help launch the Fox News Channel.