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Monday, May 1, 2023

Thousands Leave Fox News..At Least For Now


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, reports AP News citing the Nielsen company data.

That's down 56% from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached the previous 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.

Kilmeade had 1.7 million viewers on Tuesday and 2.59 million on Monday. 

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Carlson had 2.65 million viewers on Friday for what he didn't know at the time would be his last show on Fox. He was fired on Monday with no explanation given publicly, although there are no shortage of theories.



Carlson offered his own alternative to Kilmeade on Wednesday, posting a two-minute monologue on Twitter at 8 p.m. The video had been viewed 72M+ times, according to Twitter.

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