Posted on 04/28/2023 2:17:24 AM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of thousands of once loyal Fox News viewers are leaving the network in droves following Tucker Carlson's firing.
Those viewers are apparently abandoning the network as they look for something fresh in his old time slot.
Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for hastily arranged replacement show Fox News Tonight hosted by Brian Kilmeade in Carlson's old 8pm slot on Wednesday night.
It put Fox firmly in second place to liberal network MSNBC's Chris Hayes, who had 1.38 million tune in Wednesday, in a competition Carlson used to easily dominate, the Nielsen ratings company said.
Carlson offered his own alternative to both Kilmeade and Hayes on Wednesday, posting a two-minute monologue on Twitter at 8pm. By Thursday night, that video has been viewed 70 million times, according to the social media site.
Fox's figures are down 56 percent from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached last Wednesday, Nielsen said.
Hayes spent around 15 minutes of his show talking about Tucker Carlson on his show and the fallout from his firing.
The discussion went into the culture at the right-wing network in the wake of Carlson's leaked texts with former Fox personality Gretchen Carlson (no relation) giving her views.
For all of 2022, Carlson averaged 3.03 million viewers, second only to Fox's 'The Five' as the most popular program on cable television.
Kilmeade had 1.7 million viewers on Tuesday and 2.59 million on Monday, when he told people who hadn't already heard the news that Carlson would no longer be appearing on the network.
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Kilmeade is a mouthpiece for his superiors
As Megyn Kelly who I admit I like better these days described him as a company man
I haven’t watched FOX since election night 2020
Yep, and that mouthpiece is firmly attached to you know where.
Yes but she said she didn’t think in the rough and tumble world of cable news anyone would raise an eye over that much
I think it’s simply the Murdochs didn’t like Tucker attacking an establishment openly that they see themselves as part of
They have zero culture war sensibilities and live for money and power
Especially Rupert
And he’s voracious in that regard
F FNC. I get the majority of my news here and, as of late, Twitter. Now, I’m off to donate to FR.
The 8 p.m. slot was lower in 18-48 demo than CNN on Wednesday. That’s low.
“ The 8 p.m. slot was lower in 18-48 demo than CNN on Wednesday. That’s low.”
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Lower than CNN? Damn, that’s lower than whale crap.
For what it’s worth I’m over at Newsmax full time I even dumped Fox Business. Varney’s a behind the scenes never Trumper.
FNC and the GOPE arrogantly will say, where are these peasants going to go? As a conservative I go home and I stay home and prep my family and neighbors for what’s coming. I will vote in local and state elections but my loyalty to a political party that stabbed me in the back 42,000 times and then said you made me do it and you better put some ice on that and go to the back of the bus before you embarrass me is deader than Julius Caser. I loath the Bush/GOPE Republican party. They are worse than the Democrats and that takes some effort!
A few will be guilted into taking back FNC and the GOP but FNC is about to find out like the GOP you can’t keep crapping on people and expect them to forgive and forget and use the we need to save the country argument, because they clearly don’t give a tinkers damn about the country even when they do manage to win.
Fox better sell out quickly, since its value is going down fast.
https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/28/newsmax-interested-hiring-tucker-run-entire-channel/
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