Fox News Media waved its banner during the Fox upfront Monday afternoon in New York, plugging a wide array of platforms but notably gliding past its main profit center in prime time.
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Lawrence Jones will host Fox News Tonight next week, the latest rotating host in the 8 PM ET time slot after the exit of Tucker Carlson.
Fox News Tonight has seen a viewership fall off this week compared to Carlson’s numbers. But Fox News Tonight won total viewers on Thursday, while MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes topped in the 25-54 demo.
Fox News drew 1.46 million viewers in the 8 p.m. slot, edging out MSNBC’s All In with 1.44 million. , 644,000 for CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 drew 527,000, and Newsmax’s Eric Bolling The Balance garnered 456,000. The latter show has seen a ratings bump since Carlson’s departure.
In the 25-54 demo, All In with Chris Hayes averaged 144,000, compared to Fox News Tonight with 136,000, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 with 108,000 and Newsmax’s Eric Bolling with 49,000.
Fox News Tonight improved on its performance a bit from Wednesday night, when it averaged 1.33 million viewers while All In drew 1.38 million.
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Fox News Media waved its banner during the Fox upfront Monday afternoon in New York, plugging a wide array of platforms but notably gliding past its main profit center in prime time.
Fox News is facing another defamation lawsuit, this time from the former executive director of a Department of Homeland Security division tasked with monitoring the threat of disinformation.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Tucker Carlson announced that he will bring a version of his Fox News show — which he lost after getting fired last month — on Twitter, the social platform owned by Elon Musk. “Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter,” Carlson said in a video shared Tuesday on the platform. “Free speech is the main right you have. Without it, you have no others.” It’s not immediately clear if Carlson has a deal with Musk to launch the show on Twitter or if he’s doing it independently. Carlson will forgo at least $25 million to break his noncompete clause with Fox News, according to Puck News’ Dylan Byers. Prior to Carlson’s announcement of the forthcoming Twitter show, a lawyer for the former Fox News host sent a letter to the cable network accusing Fox News of “fraud and breach of contract,” Axios reported. That is presumably intended to set the stage for Carlson to claim he’s not bound by a noncompete provision of his contract with Fox News.
No one was expecting an apology and in fact Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch applauded “the highest journalistic standards” displayed at Fox News, saying the near $800 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems was a business decision made to resolve the dispute and “avoid the acrimony of multi-year litigation.”
Tuesday’s earnings call, but referred to Fox News programming overall as a “successful strategy” before clarifying that there are no plans to further shake things up.“As regards to our programming strategy in primetime, there’s no change to our programming strategy at Fox News,” Murdoch said. “It’s obviously a successful strategy.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Tucker Carlson is out at 8 p.m. on Fox News Channel, and the network hopes that a host of blue-chip advertisers that for years avoided his controversial hour will soon come back in. Since Carlson’s stunning exit last month, a timeslot that has been shunned by many Madison Avenue stalwarts seems as if it is being embraced. Procter & Gamble, one of the nation’s largest and most influential advertisers, has been running ads in “Fox News Tonight,” the network’s new 8 p.m. program, for female-skewing products like Venus razor blades by Gillette and Secret underarm deodorant. Also showing up in commercial breaks: Novo Nordisk’s trendy medication Ozempic, and Scotts Miracle-Gro.
McEnany tweeted, “I am honored to share that I will be hosting Fox News Tonight on @FoxNews at 8pm ET all next week (5/8-5/12)! Set your DVR. Please join me next week as we dig into the state of politics, media, culture, and faith in America!”McEnany is the third Fox News personality to fill in as a temporary replacement for Carlson, who was fired on April 24. First it was Brian Kilmeade, who stepped in the day Carlson got the axe.
Stars on Mars is beaming in from outer space to a TV near you very soon.
Newsmax plans to launch a primetime panel show, Chris Plante The Right Squad, in the 9 p.m. ET hour.
Abby Grossberg sat down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday night and opened up even further about her experience as a booker for fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson. And, according to Grossberg, Republican politicians were actually “terrified” of appearing on the show — something Carlson himself delighted in.During her appearance on “Anderson Cooper 360,” the CNN host pushed for further details on Grossberg’s description of the environment she faced while working for Carlson, honing in on the fact that “from what you say, he talks as if he was in the position to destroy campaigns and would actually threaten politicians.”At that, Grossberg readily agreed, and recalled a specific example from her time there.“They would say there was — like Ron Johnson, for example, the office called me and said, ‘He will come on the show, but are you going to destroy him? Because this will ruin his chances.
Most of the hosts of “The View” attended this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, as hosted by Roy Wood Jr. And according to host Sunny Hostin, Fox News’ attendees definitely weren’t having a good time.To kick off Monday’s Hot Topics discussion, moderator Whoopi Goldberg opened the floor to her co-hosts for their stories from the night, as she didn’t attend it herself.
on his podcast “Brotherly Love” which he hosts with his two other siblings, Andy and Joey Lawrence. The “Boy Meets World” star opened up the episode by expressing his support for the “#MeToo” movement saying it was a “good thing” while claiming that he had been propositioned by directors — both men and women — several times for a major role in various films. “There have been many times in my life where I’ve been propositioned to get a huge role,” said Lawrence.
Tom Cruise, Tom Jones, and Joan Collins have been added to the plans for the May 7 King’s Coronation Concert,
MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes topped the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Wednesday night, a ratings win for a Fox News rival following the departure of Tucker Carlson.
EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear International and UTA Independent Film Group have launched world sales on On Swift Horses, the buzzy project we told you about two months ago starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where The Crawdads Sing), Jacob Elordi (Euphoria), Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Diego Calva (Babylon) and Sasha Calle (The Flash). The film is currently in post-production.
surprise firing of the channel’s controversial opinion host Tucker Carlson.“Conservative media and the conservative movement are very effective. They’re rich, effective, successful, thriving enterprises,” Maddow said during her show as she addressed what Carlson’s shocking departure means for conservative media.
Ellise Shafer Brian Kilmeade took over Fox News’ 8 p.m. hour on Monday night following news of Tucker Carlson’s exit from the network. The “Fox & Friends” anchor briefly addressed Carlson’s departure at the top of the program, which was renamed “Fox News Tonight” instead of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “As you probably have heard, Fox News and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” Kilmeade said. “I wish Tucker the best. I’m great friends with Tucker and always will be. But right now, it’s time for ‘Fox News Tonight,’ so let’s get started.” In a surprise move, Fox News announced on Monday morning that its most-watched primetime host would leave the network. “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the company said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
Brian Kilmeade will host Fox News Tonight on Monday and is expected to address the exit of Tucker Carlson from the network.
Funny Girl star Lea Michele and Tony-winning MJ actor Myles Frost will announce the 76th Annual Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, May 2.