Someone here at FR said pretty much exactly this two days ago. Wish I could remember who.
Any contract can be gotten out of with the right legal minds involved.
These are no longer coincidences or acts of good faith.
These are real political and civil assaults on the Republic to control and influence not only elections but our very livelihoods.
#freetucker
How about Fox come up with a plausible reason why they needed to cancel their best show.
I used to watch Tucker and occasionaly check their other shows for a few minutes.
Now, I’d drink a case of bud lights before I’d click on Fox for even a second. And I hate beer.
Fox can F off.
He hired a scary lawyer.
I knew it. This is all about 24. FNC concluded that Trump is going to be the nominee so it’s time to removed the opposition the rats. Biden has inflicted ruin and misery to the country but Ryan and the Murdoch kids will do everything they can to keep him in there
He can just do a series of interviews.
I think it’s obvious election rigging as is the vote fraud lawsuit they didn’t even fight.
Somebody that may own a lot of shares in FOX should sue them to high heaven for violating their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders for political destruction of their enemies, and FOX’s losses for doing this to Tucker should also be considered a donation to the DNC.
As long as they keep paying him the full amount of his contract then they can probably still enforce the noncompete. I am sure it was a carefully lawyered contract on both sides. I think the only question is whether Fox is in breach by keeping him off the air, but still paying him to do nothing.
The guy is worth $400 million or so. Tell them to keep their money. He can make just as much elsewhere.
Of course, he will have to notify them that they can stop the payments to him and he is free to go and do anything he wants.
Also Trump should hire Tucker right now to travel with him to do his show live at all of his campaign stops. Give him an hour to warm up the crowds. Big screens to show his slides and videos, have live interviews etc. Political campaigning could be a way around their contract.
That is why the stupid remark by Rupert Murdoch is so significant. Tucker evidently called this woman a c—t in a private email and it is these stupid types of remarks that they are using to silence him. So, now Tucker has some real ammunition to fire back because Tucker didn’t even make the ‘spiritual’ remarks on Fox. He made them in a speech to the Heritage foundation. They can complain all they want about the names Tucker calls them, but they can’t complain about his religion.
Wasn’t Kelly fired for some remark she made, or complaint she made about Matt Lauer? She got a ton of money, but they silenced her, too.
It seems to me that FOX is negligent by failing to provide content (Tucker Carlson Tonight) to the millions of viewers who paid cable fees explicitly to watch that broadcast! Seems that an enterprising lawyer might be by interested in class action lawsuit?
Just break the contract and make the 40 million elsewhere.
Apparently, there are all types of termination, resignation rules for each company.
We know a fellow in his mid 50’s, who resigned from his 25+ year job on 1 Jan 2023.
He got health care and other benefits for 90 days (up to 1 May, 2003). From his former employer, if he didn’t sign up with any competitors.
He will start his new job on 1 May next week.
I’m doubting the strength of Fox’s supposed argument that they can fire him without cause and prevent him from working. I think the legal wrangling will be about whether he takes the money left on his contract and doesn’t work and doesn’t talk or that he forgos his contract money due and says screw it and speaks very loudly.
He was getting paid $20 million a year. I suppose they could continue to pay that for the rest of his contract period to try and keep him on the bench and silent through a noncompete... if has one.
My business wound up in a big (for us) lawsuit over a similar situation.