Posted on 04/28/2023 10:57:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
Inside sources at Fox News have leaked rumors that, despite being dropped from the network as of this past Monday, Tucker Carlson is still beholden to a contract that would prevent him from undertaking a new media venture until after the 2024 presidential election.
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who now hosts her own podcast on Sirius XM, reported on information allegedly coming out of the collapsing “conservative” media company indicating Carlson has yet to reach terms of a complete exit from his contract.
“I want to, I think, break some news for you,” Kelly began on her show. “Tucker Carlson hasn’t actually been fired. He’s still an employee of the Fox News Channel. What happened was Suzanne Scott called him she’s the CEO on Monday morning and said he was not going to be allowed to do any more shows, and that he had been kicked out of his company email.”
“And now they’re going to have to negotiate an exit. Some reporting to me, suggests that, she said it’s going to be an amicable parting. Right, isn’t it?” she continued.
“I’m completely catching Tucker, off guard. But Tucker is not fired. That’s my information, that he still needs to negotiate the exit. And that right now he’s not free to launch a podcast or a digital show or negotiate with other employers at all. Because he’s still under contract,” she suggested for a second time.
Take a look at the clip below.
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At this point for Carlson, the proverbial sky is truly the limit for the former host of cable television’s hottest broadcast. Carlson regularly drew over three million nightly viewers and crushed the competition at CNN and MSNBC. While he will no doubt court offers from the likes of OANN and Newsmax, his own viral Twitter video likely proves he has enough name-brand recognition and following to strike out on his own.
In truly epic fashion, Carlson released a video – the first public response offered since the shocking news of his Fox cancellation – which garnered tens of millions of views almost instantly. People want to hear what Tucker Carlson has to say. And by extension, they will no doubt pay for it.
Carlson could branch out on his own and follow in the steps of Megyn Kelly, for example. He could also field offers from other conservative media outlets, but just as with Fox the possibility of being constrained would no doubt loom over him.
Kelly had a lot more to say on her show, as she addressed speculations about why Fox would let their top host go and also addressed the troubles with filling his massive shoes.
“It’ll be interesting to see what the ratings were for the APM hour last night, Brian Kilmeade hosted it. It’s a rotating cast for now,” Kelly noted on her podcast. “And we’ll see what they decide to do their stuff, Brian’s fault. I mean, here’s Brian, FYI, here. Here he is, in a moment where he is kind of acknowledging what happened. I’ll just play the 14 seconds.”
“Hi, everybody, and welcome to Fox News tonight. I am Brian Kilmeade. As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. I wish Tucker the best. I’m great friends with Tucker, and always will be,” the fill-in host can be heard saying.
Except that stipulation flies in the face of the First Amendment.
Also, they hit first. They violated the contract. I don't know how much that will influence things, but I think Tucker holds the moral high ground.
A contract can’t stop him from speaking, but it can stop him from getting paid to work for a competitor.
So, Tucker is now a slave, and has not means to enact independent will?
Sometimes
He will negotiate terms acceptable to him.
Tucker will NOT be silenced through the 2024 elections.
He has to fix the contract
Tucker Carlson must go at any cost to complete their long haul. Here has been my feeling since Trump won. Hillary was just a step away from completing what Obama started, a total takedown of the Constitution, thus the USA, including the military. Had she won it would have been considered the will of the people. TRUMP stopped it in its tracks. They tried impeachment, lies, investigations and finally an overblown pandemic. They were willing to kill as many as possible and it is no mistake their target was seniors, to rid this country of as many conservative voters as possible. Those that didn’t die, were frozen with fear.
Enter Joe Biden and his gang of Marxists, through election fraud. They immediately went into action with executive orders, crippling economic regulations, opening the borders, etc. so much chaos that it would take decades to reverse, most of which will never be reversed and this is where we are.
He can just do interviews.
Interviewer: “Who does your hair?”
Tucker: Does a half hour monologue on any subject he wants.
Interviewer: Well they do a wonderful job. We’ve run out of time. Could you come back tomorrow to continue our in depth interview?
Sounds like it’s going to be a lawyer shoot out.
“These are real political and civil assaults on the Republic to control and influence not only elections but our very livelihoods.”
There’s that video of Schumer publicly telling Murdoch to get rid of Tucker. And he said it’s the politicians’ duty to control the media.
Based on what Megyn has said there are/were a lot of people at FNC who shared the opinion that the woman is a cunt.
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The First Amendment only applies to governmental restrictions on free speech. The First Amendment has nothing to do with the enforceability of a noncompetition agreement between a private employer and employee.
I have no idea whether or not Fox violated their contract with Carlson and neither does anyone else who has not read it. I assume it is a complex agreement that was negotiated between fairly high-level law firms on each side.
Under most employment agreements, an employer can make an employee sit around and do nothing during the term of the agreement as long as the employer continues to pay the employee. I suspect (but do not know) that Tucker Carlson's employment agreement, like most media star's agreements, puts some limits on Fox's ability to assign Carlson to other duties or take him off the air entirely.
His new employer should buy his way out of the Fox contract. Pay the $30M and start talking again.
Interesting that he and Don Lemon hired the same lawyer for their exit negotiations. I think they’ll both find a way out.
I saw Megyn’s video about this on Twitter two or three days ago. (The same one that’s quoted in this article.)
Chris Cuomo hired that same lawyer. He managed to land at News Nation.
I’ve red in a couple of places that he doesn’t have a noncompete.
WABC-TV in New York had a LIFETIME non-compete written into the contract of one of its anchor. When they canned him, his broadcasting career ended.
Maybe Tucker should sign with a foreign outlet to get around the non-compete. (Technically, they aren’t competitors.)
(Then hey can make carriage deals here in the USA.)
Thanks for your reply and pointing that out.
I was reminded once before, and keep forgetting that demarcation.
It’s confusing. Thinking to a while back,I recall that a shop-owner was successfully sued (or fined) for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. I think I recall other instances when private parties were sued for civil rights violations by non- government entities- (it’s the aclu’s stock and trade) . I assumed the same thing here.
Assuming my recollection is accurate, why wouldn’t the same understanding apply?
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