Fox News Ratings Dive After Tucker Carlson Exit, Plus Where Will He End Up Next?
Many Fox News viewers promised to boycott the network following Tucker Carlson’s unceremonious exit on Monday (April 24), and judging by the latest ratings, they stuck to their promise.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the debut of Fox News Tonight, which replaces Carlson’s slot at the 8 pm hour, pulled in just under 2.6 million viewers on Monday night. That is down around 21 percent from recent episodes of Tucker Carlson Tonight, which averaged 3.3 million over the past eight Mondays.
The show also saw a fall in the key news demographic of adults 25-54, reaching a 0.24 rating. This is 37 percent lower than the 0.38 that Carlson pulled in over the past eight weeks.
That said, the numbers were still sizable enough to comfortably lead the 8 pm hour over rival cable news networks. Over on MSNBC, a Joe Scarborough Presents special reached 1.51 million viewers, while Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN drew 728,000 viewers.
The first edition of Fox News Tonight was hosted by Brian Kilmeade, who is expected to be the first in a line-up of rotating hosts over the coming weeks.
As for Carlson, the controversial news anchor has already received offers from other news stations, including the fringe right-wing cable channel One America News Network (OANN), which laid out a potential offer of $25 million.
“Maybe Fox News’ loss could be @OANN’s gain,” the network tweeted on Monday, adding, “Founder and CEO @RobHerring would like to extend an invitation to Carlson to meet for negotiation.”
“It would be great if we could get Tucker! I might give him around $25 million. And he would be well worth that,” Herring wrote in an email to the Times of San Diego.
Meanwhile, former Fox News host Glenn Beck invited Carlson to join him at the conservative news outlet BlazeTV, saying during his Monday show, “We would love to have you here. You won’t miss a beat. And together, the two of us will tear it up. Just tear it up.”
Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy also issued a statement slamming Fox News’ decision to get rid of Carlson, though he didn’t outright offer the fired host a job.
And, if none of those avenues work out, there is always Russia. RT, the network formerly known as Russia Today and is banned in numerous countries, tweeted Monday, “Hey @TuckerCarlson, you can always question more with @RT_com.”
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Imagine what Tucker's departure will do to Hannity's ratings! Lotta people were Hannity viewers by accident after watching Tucker -- not gonna happen now. And to a lesser extent, some Watters viewers were just tuning in early for Tucker; we'll see how many fairly quickly. No way bobble-head RINO Kilmeade (or whoever they try next month) can draw half of the audience Carlson did.
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Hannity has been with Fox News since their inception in 1996. He's had his own show since 2009. I love Tucker, but Hannity would have taken a larger bath from losing Bill O'Reilly than Tucker as O'Reilly had almost double the viewers that Tucker had.
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Everyone at Fox will take a ratings hit. This is a FOX boycott—not a Tucker time slot boycott.
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I'd imagine that Tucker ends up doing his own thing for awhile, then eventually runs for office.
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Done with Fox News. If you watch the Patriot Awards you heard the crowd cheering for Tucker when they called his name. As far as the executive crying because he called her a c@*t. She just made herself look like one. She just made a decision based only on her feelings whish sounds to me this women executive at fox is really a liberal. but because she is a women and fox don't have the b@!!'s to get rid of her instead. Rupert Madox you just screwed up big time. I will be tuning to Newsmax.
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Why watch Fox without Tucker? He WAS Fox, the rest were just opening-acts!
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Tucker Carlson IS BIGGER than Fox!
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I believe that the rating drop says a great deal. And really, who gives a damn what people like GLB has to say?
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I think they fired Tucker because of Schumer and Cult. Schumer came out about 2 months ago and said they wanted him fired because of his reporting of Jan 6th. Tucker's contract was coming up and they didn't renew it because of that. Makes sense to me. But in the same turn, it may be one of the DUMBEST mistakes Fox has ever made. Time will tell.
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Oh, you mean the truth which is what you crybaby liberals can't handle.
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What lie was that? We will be waiting!
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Fox five is taking a dive. Not worth watching anymore.
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Don't be so quick to make that Comment. He will be back😆🤣
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Wake up and use your brain. Tucker was calling them out and they didn’t like it. Just like Trump. The government and career politicians are not your friend!
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You must be talking about the Liar-In-Chief Joe Biden. Political hack for 50 years of lying to America!
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He'll probably end up where all the fired and/or disgruntled former news hosts end up... NewsNation.
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NO one should take this lying, racist traitor on. Wherever he ends up, may the network and he fail.
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Calling everyone that disagrees with you a racist gets old after a while.
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Awhhh the truth is really tough for you, isn't it?
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