Fox News abruptly announced the departure of opinion/commentator anchor Tucker Carlson, who hosted the extremely popular Tucker Carlson Tonight.
The split was unexpected on Monday morning. It’s unclear why Fox News and Carlson split up. Speculation is going around that it has to do with the Dominion settlement.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” according to the press announcement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
According to the release, his exit from the network is effective immediately. Carlson’s most recent episode aired on Friday, April 21. It means Carlson will not be able to host a last Fox News show and say farewell to his audience.
“Mr. Carlson’s last program was on Friday, April 21,” according to the company. “Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
Tucker Carlson Tonight eclipsed Hannity as the highest-rated prime-time cable show in April 2020, with an average audience of 4.56 million viewers.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe show had an average audience of 4.33 million viewers in the second quarter of 2020. That was the highest number of viewers ever for a cable news program.
“Carlson was the number-one watched host among Democrats in the key 25-54 age demographic – across all networks” in October 2022, according to Mediaite.
Justin Wells, Tucker’s senior executive producer, joined Tucker and left Fox as well.
Fox stock took a nosedive after the news came out that Tucker left the network.
FOX NEWS STOCK IS DROPPING AFTER LOSING TUCKER. #TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/l9hSHYPMrA
— Val (@TrumpsHurricane) April 24, 2023
Fox News abruptly announced the departure of opinion/commentator anchor Tucker Carlson, who hosted the extremely popular Tucker Carlson Tonight.
The split was unexpected on Monday morning. It’s unclear why Fox News and Carlson split up. Speculation is going around that it has to do with the Dominion settlement.
“FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” according to the press announcement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
According to the release, his exit from the network is effective immediately. Carlson’s most recent episode aired on Friday, April 21. It means Carlson will not be able to host a last Fox News show and say farewell to his audience.
“Mr. Carlson’s last program was on Friday, April 21,” according to the company. “Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
Tucker Carlson Tonight eclipsed Hannity as the highest-rated prime-time cable show in April 2020, with an average audience of 4.56 million viewers.
The show had an average audience of 4.33 million viewers in the second quarter of 2020. That was the highest number of viewers ever for a cable news program.
“Carlson was the number-one watched host among Democrats in the key 25-54 age demographic – across all networks” in October 2022, according to Mediaite.
Justin Wells, Tucker’s senior executive producer, joined Tucker and left Fox as well.
Fox stock took a nosedive after the news came out that Tucker left the network.
FOX NEWS STOCK IS DROPPING AFTER LOSING TUCKER. #TuckerCarlson pic.twitter.com/l9hSHYPMrA
— Val (@TrumpsHurricane) April 24, 2023
Dan Bongino left Fox News last week after the network settled a dispute with Dominion Voting Systems.
On the first day of the defamation trial, Fox News agreed to a $787 million deal with Dominion.
I haven’t confirmed this yet, but I heard from a source that Tucker was preparing to do a live show Monday night and he was lining up guests. The show was going to be about the Dominion lawsuit settlement and how he was going to clear his name because there were lies being told by other networks. The Fox corporate folks put the kibosh on that, and Tucker stood up and said F*** Y**, and walked away.
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I haven’t confirmed this yet, but I heard from a source that Tucker was preparing to do a live show Monday night and he was lining up guests. The show was going to be about the Dominion lawsuit settlement and how he was going to clear his name because there were lies being told by other networks. The Fox corporate folks put the kibosh on that, and Tucker stood up and said F*** Y**, and walked away.
