Fox ratings tumble in Tucker Carlson slot after his firing

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID BAUDER an hour ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers are reacting to Tucker Carlson’s firing by abandoning the network in his old time slot — at least temporarily.

Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade in the 8 p.m. Eastern hour on Wednesday night, putting the network second to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a competition Carlson used to dominate, the Nielsen company said.

That’s down 56% from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached last Wednesday, Nielsen said. 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.

Carlson offered his own alternative to Kilmeade on Wednesday, posting a two-minute monologue on Twitter at 8 p.m. By Thursday afternoon, that video had been viewed 62.7 million times, according to Twitter.




Read more: https://apnews.com/article/fox-carlson-fired-ratings-newsmax-0bc7a7690ccc7d18df2fc6e959004c06

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This makes me smile

[BOSSHOG]

2. Quite interesting

At least for a spell, fox is lying less to people who aren’t woke, thus losing them as viewers.

[tulipsandroses]

3. Fox losing viewers after the 2020 election would've probably been temporary

According to some media folks. They would have lost some viewers, but most probably would have returned. Fox is a Behemoth compared to Newsmax. They could have withstood losing some viewers. But greed rotted their brains.
Now they are in a worse position. Oh well,

[moose65]

14. Yep

I remember reading right after the election that some of the MAGAs were mad at Fox for calling Arizona for Biden, and they were swearing to abandon Fox News. Two weeks later, they were back.

Fox News is an addiction for these people. They can sit there night after night after night, watching 3 or 4 hours. I don't get it. Even when I enjoy watching a news show, like Rachel, I don't watch it every single night, over and over and over again. Don't they have anything else to do???

[Mawspam2]

4. Not said: Newsmax ratings up 700%

Will it stay that way? IMO that time slot will revert back to normal in two or three weeks no matter who is hosting.

[RussBLib]

6. It's Newsmax's chance to shine ...

...like a fresh turd in the field.

[dchill]

5. It's a woke time slot, now!

[Warpy]

7. Where oh where are they going to go for their hour of Putin's talking points?

Honestly, it was like a feedback loop between those two.

I suppose Newsmax is trying to pick up the slack, but nobody over there toadies to the Russians quite like Tucker did, although they're trying their best to out crazy Pox News.

Likely Pox will hare some new bottle blondes and make their skirts even shorter and viewership will be up again. This is only temporary.

[Claustrum]

8. I understand the celebration of Fox Noise's rating drop.

But isn't it troublesome how much power Tucker has....

I can never understand the draw of Tucker or TFG.

[Gore1FL]

9. I think people like it when someone calls them a victims.

After a while they start thinking, "he understands our problems." He finds scapegoats for them. "He" can be either of those you mentioned.

[marble falls]

10. This should make Fox aware of how Heroin addiction works. This is what happens when there is ...

... no consideration of the ramification of doing anything for ratings and sponsor revenue.

[CountAllVotes]

11. Awwwwwwww ....

& recommend.

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. 1.33 Million - Holy Shit!

What is wrong with those people. Oh wait, I forgot, they love to be lied to.

[Magoo48]

13. Nasty little people love their nasty little men to stroke their nasty little hatreds. So offensive.

[twodogsbarking]

15. If he came back would that be a surprise?