Tucker Carlson Launches Video Streaming Service ‘Tucker Carlson Network’
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced the launch of a new video streaming service called the “Tucker Carlson Network.”
According to a press release obtained by Mediaite, Carlson will host “multiple new shows that include long-form interviews, commentaries, news reporting, and in-depth investigations.” The new company will be run by CEO Neil Patel, who co-founded The Daily Caller with Carlson, and Justin Wells, Carlson’s longtime producer, who will oversee “all programming and content.”
In the months since his ouster from Fox News under a cloud of mystery and controversy, Carlson has been publishing an interview show on X, formerly Twitter. According to the press release, “Carlson’s non-subscriber video content will continue to be available on X.” Subscriber-only content is available for $9 per month and $72 per year.
Per a Wall Street Journal report on the launch of the network, sources said, “Carlson and his team explored launching TCN through X, but the company wasn’t able to move quickly enough to build out the technology they needed to run a subscription service.”
Carlson was ousted by Fox News just days after the network agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems, which was the subject of 2020 election conspiracy theories aired on Fox, $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. Fox has never publicly disclosed why it abruptly canceled the top-rated show on prime time cable news.
Correction: A previous version of this story referred to Carlson’s Fox News show as the top rated show on cable news. While his show was the top rated prime time program, Fox News show The Five was higher-rated at the time of his cancelation.
