Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is launching his own streaming network with interviews and commentary
Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he is starting his own streaming network
NEW YORK — Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson is starting his own streaming service, promising to “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year, he announced Monday.
Commentary, interviews, Carlson-flavored news reports and documentaries, even an advice show will be offered on the Tucker Carlson Network, which is essentially staffed by the people who used to work for him at Fox.
The new venture comes more than seven months after Fox abruptly fired Carlson, its most popular host. Fox never publicly explained the firing, and Carlson said on Monday that “it really is one of those mysteries that I'll probably never get to the bottom of.”
“I want to wake up and say to myself, ‘You can say whatever you want,’” Carlson said, announcing his streaming service on The Megyn Kelly Show, a podcast and radio show hosted by fellow Fox News refugee Kelly, who has remade her career as an independent commentator.
“I'm going to do it without interference, period,” Carlson said. “I'm going to tell the unadorned truth — I hope gently and in the least offensive way as I possibly can. But I'm going to tell the truth until the day I die.”
Before being bounced, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle a lawsuit over coverage of the 2020 election, Carlson hosted what The New York Times said may be the most racist show in cable TV history, but by some measures the most successful.
He averaged 3.2 million viewers a night for the first three months of 2023, according to the Nielsen company. Fox's ratings plunged immediately following his exit. Replacement Jesse Watters built the audience to 2.6 million in
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