Tucker was the most influential voice on the American Right. Tucker drove Republican opposition to the Ukraine war, single handedly made the Great Replacement a mainstream issue, and made skepticism about January 6th acceptable. Politicians and commentators followed his cues. Tucker's coverage set the agenda for conservatives. It was a show meant to influence people’s minds, and it succeeded. hour, doing man-in-the-street interviews and other features for Bill O’Reilly before O’Reilly’s firing in 2017.Tucker Carlson Tonight was not a lighthearted show. It’s something of a triumphant return for Watters, who got his start at the 8 p.m. The lineup change signals that Fox is doubling down on its opinionated evening programming strategy, with three sharp-tongued men filling the prime-time hours. in the first three months of the year, and the string of guest hosts who replaced him the past two months usually reached under 2 million, making the network’s command more tenuous. Carlson averaged 3.25 million viewers at 8 p.m. The case, which centered on the network’s airing of false claims following the 2020 presidential election, exposed a trove of private messages sent between Fox hosts, including Hannity and Carlson, in which they criticized peers at the network.Ĭarlson has since begun doing occasional monologues for Twitter, although Fox is attempting to get him to stop the broadcasts.įox has seen its ratings tumble since Carlson exited. The announcement comes roughly two months after Fox News fired Carlson shortly after settling a defamation lawsuit with the voting machine maker Dominion Voting Systems on the eve of trial.
She’ll shift to 7 p.m., the hour that Watters has occupied. Greg Gutfeld’s late-night show that combines news and comedy will move up an hour to start at 10 p.m. Jesse Watters will fill the Fox News Channel time slot left vacant by the firing of Tucker Carlson, part of a dramatic revamp of the network’s evening lineup announced on Monday.
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