Posted on 04/24/2023 9:34:17 AM PDT by Morgana
Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, after reigning over the network for nearly a decade.
In a shock announcement Monday, the network announced his departure, saying his final show was on April 21st.
'FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
'We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,' the network statement read.
Host Harris Faulkner also announced his departure on air, saying: 'We have some news from within our Fox family. Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have mutually agreed to part ways. Tucker's last show was this past Friday.'
An interim roster of hosts will take over in his absence until a permanent replacement is chosen.
Carlson - who signed off his final show on Friday with 'that's it for us for the week, we'll be back!' - is yet to comment.
His departure comes days after Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems which had sued for defamation, claiming hosts like Carlson knew President Trump's election fraud claims were untrue, but pushed them for ratings.
Dominion sued for $1.6billion and settled for $787million at the 11th hour, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly-publicized trial where Carlson and other hosts would likely have been called as witnesses.
Among discovery submitted before the trial were text messages in which Carlson described his 'passionate' hatred of President Trump.
Carlson's show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, was the gleaming jewel of Fox's nightly line-up, drawing in 3.5million viewers every night.
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Tucker Carlson said he was registered as a Democrat from 2006 - 2020.
On Newsmax, I probably watch Tucker. I swore off Fox In Nov. 2020 and would not go there even for the Tucker program.
I stopped watching Gutfield & the 5, for the same reason, years before I turned off Fox in Nov. 2020.
Don't you remember Carlson started out his first six years on CNN? He had a whole "aw shucks conservatives are bad" shtick.
If it was mutual, then I will support Tucker. Happy for him.
D.C. talk show host Vince Coglianese unexpectedly took the day off today. I wonder if he has been talking to Fox.
You don't debate with evil.
They couldn’t come to terms on a contract
That’s mutual but not really
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