The Post-Tucker Carlson Reality For Fox News

As much as the network may want to move on from the false election fraud claims that got them into their current legal problems, and the power that Carlson had manning the top nightly program on cable news, it’s also going to be hard for the network to walk away from what’s worked.

For instance, data from Inscape shows that Tucker Carlson Tonight accounted for 6.75% of all live, linear minutes watched on Fox News from Jan. 1-April 23, 2023 (No. 4 among all programs on the network). It was No. 26 in terms of linear watch-time across all programs since Jan. 1, and No. 5 in primetime across all networks.

Where do you turn to replace that? There’s one option that’s already within the Fox News ecosystem: Jesse Watters Primetime, as data from iSpot points to pretty clearly. [read the rest on TVREV]