{"id":1982539,"date":"2023-07-25T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-for-conservative-network-as-it-sees-surge-in-ratings\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:26:21","slug":"tucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-for-conservative-network-as-it-sees-surge-in-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-for-conservative-network-as-it-sees-surge-in-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Fox departure boosts conservative network with ratings surge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-for-conservative-network-as-it-sees-surge-in-ratings%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=1982539&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--><h2>Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Fox Firing\u2062 Becomes Huge Gift for Conservative\u200d Network as It Sees \u2063Surge in Ratings<\/h2>\n<p>While his firing from Fox News may\u200b yet be a \u200dgood thing for Tucker Carlson\u2019s future, it\u200b has for sure been a boon to one of Fox\u2019s\u200b rival cable networks, according to the\u2064 latest viewership data.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-fox-news-top-host-part-ways-last-show-already-aired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> from Fox News \u200cin April even though he was the network\u2019s ratings king, has since gone on to \u2063notable\u2063 things such as a \u200dmassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/photo-reveals-tuckers-first-interview-guest-since-exiting-fox-news-left-will-hate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with\u200c controversial social\u2062 media influencer Andrew Tate, as \u200dwell as\u2063 a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wednesday-december-1st-2021\/\" title=\"Wednesday | December 1st, 2021\">high-profile role<\/a> as\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-host-first-gop-presidential-forum-2024-race-5-candidates-attending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the host<\/a> \u200dof a forum for most of the top 2024 GOP candidates for president.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson\u2019s \u200dfans may well have felt betrayed by\u2062 Fox, but being fired does not seem to have\u2064 hurt Carlson\u2062 at all if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlsons-first-episode-smashes-expectations-goes-viral-within-24-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of\u2064 views<\/a> his Twitter videos have earned are \u200dany indication.<\/p>\n<p>Fox seems to have benefited far less.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cLess than a week after \u200bCarlson was ousted, Fox\u2063 News saw a catastrophic drop to \u2063just 1.3 million viewers\u200c \u2014 a\u200d 59% drop from Carlson\u2019s\u2063 average rating,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/newsmax-fox-news-tucker-carlson\/2023\/07\/25\/id\/1128397\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsmax<\/a> reported.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But, speaking\u200d of Newsmax,\u200d there is\u200d another recipient of good news in connection with Carlson\u2019s release from Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Cable news network Newsmax has apparently been\u200d enjoying a huge upswing\u200c in viewers since Carlson\u2019s exit, the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tucker-carlsons-fox-exit-helps-boost-newsmax-ratings-8aed0b57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> \u2063 reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cNewsmax drew 247,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-outlets-crash-without-donald-trump-in-the-white-house\/\" title=\"Establishment Media Outlets Crash Without Donald Trump in the White House\">prime-time viewers<\/a> in the period,\u2063 through June 25, compared with 111,000 in the first\u2064 quarter,\u201d the Journal reported.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax\u2019s chief executive, confirmed that the upswing coincides with Carlson\u2019s exit at Fox.\u200b \u201cWe definitely saw a\u200b dramatic increase after Tucker,\u201d he said, adding,\u200b \u201cThe departure obviously jolted a lot of his strong\u2064 supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The benefit to \u2063Newsmax, which quickly moved to \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/network-wants-give-tucker-carlson-job-wont-just-hosting-show-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offer Carlson a\u200c job<\/a>,\u200d showed up almost\u2063 immediately, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>Newsmax\u2019s viewership immediately\u200c surged\u2063 to 334,000 during the \u200dlast week of April on the \u2063tail of\u200b Carlson\u2019s release from Fox. And while ratings\u200d have \u200cdecreased slightly since that\u2064 surge, Newmax is still\u2062 enjoying above-average numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Newsmax has seen higher average ratings than it \u200cdid during\u200c the 2020 election when conservative views were angered by Fox\u2019s\u2064 election coverage.\u200d That \u200b2020 ratings \u200bbump\u2064 subsided, the Journal added. \u2064But this post-Carlson bump may \u2062be different.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Fox\u2019s ratings are\u200d still tumbling since Carlson\u2019s \u2063abrupt exit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>\u201cNewsmax\u2019s surge has \u2063corresponded with a decline in Fox News\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-reason-cnn-plus-failed-isnt-what-you-think\/\" title=\"The Reason CNN Plus Failed Isn\u2019t What You Think\">prime-time ratings<\/a> following Carlson\u2019s\u2063 exit.\u2063 The network\u2019s ratings \u200bdeclined 22% \u200din the second quarter, to about 1.7 million prime-time viewers,\u200d though\u200d it remains the most-watched\u2063 cable news network,\u201d the Journal \u200breported.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ruddy founded Newsmax as a conservative news website in 1998 and by 2014 he expanded the site to a daily cable news network. But his \u2063network became a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/despite-massive-fox-news-settlement-dominion-ceo-bad-news-voting-system-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">target<\/a> of the suspected corrupt\u200b electronic\u2062 voting machine manufacturers Dominion Voting \u2063Systems and Smartmatic over accusations that Newsmax said the companies\u2062 rigged the 2020 election for now President \u200dJoe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Ruddy, though, disputes the contention and says that his network frequently took pains to note \u200cthat there was no evidence that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">voting software<\/a> was \u200cmanipulated to push\u200c Biden \u200cinto the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever \u200cthe benefits to\u200c Newsmax, so\u2063 far Fox News has found nothing \u200dbut falling ratings\u2062 since it fired Carlson. Even \u2063Sean Hannity has seen a loss of viewers since Carlson left the network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/life-without-tucker-fox-news-hit-bad-hannity-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling<\/a> \u200bfrom more than two \u200dmillion \u2063a \u200dnight to only 1.7 million in July.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News \u200dlost 32 \u2064percent of its \u2063prime-time viewers, 58 percent of viewers \u200cin the prime age demographic, 21 percent in daytime viewers, and 41 percent in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-for-conservative-network-as-it-sees-surge-in-ratings\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson's Fox departure boosts conservative network with ratings surge.\">total day demographic viewers compared<\/a> to \u2064the\u2062 week\u2062 of July 11, \u20622022,\u200c according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-july-10-basic-cable-ranker-fox-news-rebounds-after-low-rated-holiday-week\/534571\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TV Newser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As\u2064 a result of all this, Fox News suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/life-without-tucker-fox-news-stock-downgraded-viewership-plummets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downgrade<\/a> of its stock because of its poor ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Fox is still \u200bwell below where \u2063it stood in the\u2063 ratings before\u200d it fired Carlson. And it doesn\u2019t look like it \u2064is going to recover\u2063 too\u200c quickly if\u200b at all.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlsons-fox-firing-becomes-huge-gift-conservative-network-sees-surge-ratings\/\">Tucker \u2063Carlson&#8217;s Fox\u2063 Firing\u2063 Becomes\u200c Huge Gift\u2064 for Conservative Network as It Sees Surge \u200cin Ratings<\/a> appeared first \u2064on \u200d <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u2064Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>found success at another cable network. The latest viewership data reveals that his departure from Fox News has benefited a rival network. Despite being the top-rated host at Fox, Tucker Carlson&#8217;s firing has potentially opened new doors for his future career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":1982540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1982539","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}