Fox News Loses Nearly Half A Million Viewers After Tucker Carlson’s Departure

On Tuesday, the audience numbers were released for Fox News’s first day without former host Tucker Carlson and it’s not pretty for the network.

Tucker Carlson regularly had millions of viewers a night as Americans tuned in to witness his hard-hitting journalism and courage to buck the status quo and question mainstream narratives.

On Thursday evening, Tucker’s penultimate show, the Fox host pulled in 2,992,000 viewers thus blowing out the competition at CNN, Anderson Cooper got 543,000 viewers, and MSNBC, Chris Hayes pulled 1,372,000 viewers, per AdWeek.

In contrast, Monday evening saw a drastic downshift in total viewers for the 8 pm timeslot, per Adweek. The Monday show, titled ‘Fox News Tonight’, was hosted by Brian Kilmeade and only brought in 2,597,000 total viewers. 

When compared to the other networks, MSNBC had 1,514,000 total viewers and CNN had 728,000 viewers tune in to their 8 pm shows.

That would mean that the difference between Tucker’s penultimate show and the most recent show without Tucker had a net loss of 395,000 and it is likely that the numbers will be even worse for Tuesday’s show once the older audience realizes that Carlson isn’t on a hiatus but instead departed the company.

In addition, there was a major downgrade in the key demographic of 25-54 between the Thursday show and Monday. Tucker brought in 334,000 viewers from that age frame while Kilmeade was only able to acquire 294,000. That’s a 12 percent decrease in viewers after the news broke Monday morning.

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“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the network said in a statement at the beginning of the week, according to Forbes.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” Fox continued in its statement. “Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday, April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”

Making matters worse for the company, its stock price plunged leading to nearly a billion-dollar loss in valuation.

According to Business Insider, Fox Corporation’s stock fell as much as five percent leading to $962 million in market value.

Over the past month, the cable news network’s stock, Fox Corp Class A, hovered around $34 a share. Following the announcement, however, the stock plummeted to, as of this report, $32 a share.

In addition, Fox Corp Class B, hovered around $31 a share before falling to $29 a share in the mid-morning trading hours.

It is clear that Fox News made a major error and that is already appearing in their flagging viewership numbers as audiences tune out without Tucker.

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