{"id":1920270,"date":"2023-04-27T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-ratings-plummet-after-tucker-carlsons-departure\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:26:43","slug":"fox-ratings-plummet-after-tucker-carlsons-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-ratings-plummet-after-tucker-carlsons-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Ratings Plummet After Tucker Carlson\u2019s Departure\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffox-ratings-plummet-after-tucker-carlsons-departure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since the ouster of Tucker Carlson, Fox News\u2019 ratings have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1651379914946347010?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plummeted<\/a>. The demo ratings (based on viewers aged 25-54) released yesterday from Tuesday night reveal every show on Fox from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. significantly dropped in numbers. \u201cThe Five\u201d was down 7 percent, Brett Baier\u2019s \u201cSpecial Report\u201d was down 23 percent, \u201cJesse Watters Primetime\u201d was down 35 percent, \u201cHannity\u201d was down 44 percent, and \u201cThe Ingraham Angle\u201d was down 20 percent. Carlson\u2019s old 8 p.m. time slot was hit the hardest \u2014 down nearly 70 percent compared to last Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just ratings that have been hurting at Fox. Within minutes of Carlson\u2019s unceremonious departure, Fox Corporation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/fox-stock-1-billion-tucker-carlson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost $1 billion<\/a>\u00a0in stock value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night, Carlson posted a video to Twitter in which he heavily criticized the corporate media\u2019s controlled narrative, exposed our \u201cone-party state,\u201d and hinted at his future plans. Within a few hours of its posting, Tucker\u2019s video received more than double the views his old Fox News time slot received.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/27\/tucker-hints-at-his-future-plans-in-new-video-blasts-corporate-media-for-banning-real-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tucker Hints At His Future Plans In New Video, Blasts Corporate Media For Banning Real Debate<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The staggering views on Tucker\u2019s latest Twitter video are a strong indication that whatever his plans are next, there is a dedicated audience ready to follow him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives have become wildly disillusioned with Fox by Tucker\u2019s removal from the network. Arguably the most influential leader of the new right was ejected from his prime-time television slot with what appears to have been no warning and poor reasoning. <\/p>\n<p>Carlson\u2019s message last night, however, was uplifting, encouraging his distressed listeners to have hope and, most importantly, to be courageous. \u201cOur current orthodoxies won\u2019t last,\u201d he said. \u201cThe people in charge \u2026 they\u2019re afraid. They\u2019ve given up persuasion [and are] resorting to force. But it won\u2019t work. When honest people say what\u2019s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker also gave his listeners hope for the future of American media, nothing that while \u201cthere aren\u2019t many places left\u201d where Americans can discuss \u201ctrue things,\u201d \u201cthere are some and that\u2019s enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker\u2019s mega-viral Twitter video, which now has more than 17 million views, is a strong example of how powerful alternative media has become. The corporate networks do indeed have power and control, but other platforms, such as podcasts, substacks, outlets like The Federalist, live streams, chat rooms, reels, and TikToks, are just as influential, if not more so, than the legacy media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Carlson showed, alternative media have power \u2014 another reason why censorship must be opposed, no matter where it crops up and whom it targets. The legacy media refuse to platform voices like Carlson\u2019s, but they also hate that they have lost influence to the alternative platforms, so they are constantly on the prowl to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/22\/a-recap-of-nbcs-failed-attempt-to-deplatform-the-federalist-on-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">help<\/a> tech companies shut down alternative voices. The fight to publicize the truth will be continuous, but as Tucker said, so \u201clong as you can hear the words, there is hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Evita Duffy-Alfonso is a staff writer to The Federalist and the co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. She loves the Midwest, lumberjack sports, writing, and her family. Follow her on Twitter at @evitaduffy_1 or contact her at evita@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the ouster of Tucker Carlson, Fox News\u2019 ratings have\u00a0plummeted. The demo ratings (based on viewers aged 25-54) released yesterday from Tuesday night reveal every show on Fox from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. significantly dropped in numbers. \u201cThe Five\u201d was down 7 percent, Brett Baier\u2019s \u201cSpecial Report\u201d was down 23 percent, \u201cJesse Watters Primetime\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1920271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10433,10045,7690,6832,4882,3748],"class_list":["post-1920270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-carlsons","tag-departure","tag-fox","tag-plummet","tag-ratings","tag-tucker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}