NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News said Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its popular and controversial host, less than a week after settling a lawsuit over the network’s 2020 election reporting.
The network said in a press release that the last program of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press release from the network said.
Carlson became Fox’s most popular personality after replacing Bill O’Reilly in Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016. He’s also consistently drawn headline for controversial coverage, including most recently airing tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to minimize the impact of the deadly attack.
There was no immediate explanation from Fox about why Carlson was leaving.
His name came up during the recently settled case with Dominion Voting Systems, primarily because of email and text messages that were revealed as part of the lawsuit. In some of them, Carlson privately criticized former President Donald Trump, saying he hated him passionately.
A few weeks ago, Carlson devoted his entire show to an interview with Trump.
“Fox News Tonight” will air in Carlson’s 8 p.m. ET prime-time slot, hosted by a rotating array of network personalities, for the time being.
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I understand Murdoch is writing a new book, ‘How To Lose The Majority Of Your Audience, In One Stupid Move’. I believe he had help from the Bud Light Marketing Team.
No big lose, I hardly watched Faux News anyway !
Make that two stupid moves when they let Dan Bongino go. Compare both these stupid moves with the intellegent CNN move of squeezing out Don Lemon like so much sour Lemonade. When CNN looks better than Fox ,the world has turned upside down.
No one at Fox is intelligent enough to learn from Disney and Budweiser…
I wonder who’s next? Hannity? Ingrahm? Gutfeld??
What I would like to know is what is the “management group” that made this decision? Is it 92 year old Rupert or some new gaggle of newbies that resemble the staff of Alissa Heinerscheid of Bud Light? I get that it is probably a “business decision” but unless they were paying Tucker more than LeBron James, I don’t see how it can be justified financially. The ongoing fog of First Amendment issues is really upsetting. The Media is way way too powerful to be controlled by individuals with biases.
Two big companies going woke in the same week, Budweiser and then Fox. What is going on in the corporate world? Conservatism took a big hit with the loss of Tucker Carlson and with Bud, well, what can you say? ✌️
He got fired not only because of the election but also because he showed pictures of the jan6 truth. Guards taking people peacefully around the.inside of the capital building. The guy with the horns was peacefully being Escorted around the building with the capital police. The democrats can’t have him showing the truth
I agree. HE SPOKE TRUTH to power.. The commies in govt, Can’t have that.
Well we are being gaslighted once again because we aren’t getting the WHOLE STORY!