© ReutersTucker's ousting on Tuesday shocked the nation - with many eager to see what he will get up to next
Carlson's firebrand clip, posted on Twitter on Wednesday night, received over 1.8 million views in less than an hour after its release. By Thursday morning, the video had received 15million views.
In comparison, Tucker Carlson's primetime replacement Brian Kilmeade received a total of 1.7million views on Tuesday night.
This is the lowest primetime viewership Fox News has experienced since before September 11, 2001, reports CNN.
Tucker used to draw in an audience of around 3.3million per night - meaning the company has seen a whopping 1.6million drop in the days since the infamous host was ousted.
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Kilmeade started his 8pm show on Tuesday with a brief note about his 'great friend' Tucker - wishing him the best - before continuing with the broadcast.
Ratings for Wednesday's Fox primetime broadcasts are not yet available.
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Over the last few months on Fox News, Tucker had been amassing views well over 3 million each night, and some shows went far beyond that. On April 4, he had 6.5million people glued to their screens watching him while also tuning in to see Trump's post-indictment speech from Mar-a-Lago.
Despite Tucker's exit, Fox News was still the highest-rated cable news network at 8pm - and was the most-watched network in cable news during primetime and total day in viewers.
In the clip Tucker posted online, which has been seen across the world, he spoke blisteringly of the people trying to 'silence' truth-tellers.
He said: 'The liars who have been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker. That's the iron law of the universe: true things prevail.'
The video was set live just after 8pm Eastern Time - the same as his old Fox News time slot.
While the cable network world adjusts without powerhouse Tucker on screen, it was revealed that the move to get rid of him wiped $500million off the value of the parent company, News Corporation, and pushed the share price down 5.4 percent.
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The messages, shown to the board and senior executives for the first time, were even more critical of bosses than those which were made public in the lead-up to the court case with Dominion Voting Systems, reports The New York Times.
The texts given to top brass led to a breaking point between the network's No. 1 rated host and the Murdoch family who did not want the messages to be released at trial.
By the time they became aware of the abusive messages, Lachlan Murdoch - Rupert Murdoch's 51-year-old son and CEO of Fox Corporation - had already authorized negotiators to increase a settlement offer with Dominion, The Wall Street Journal reports.
On April 18, the settlement was agreed for $787.5 million.
The settlement - which was announced minutes before the trial was due to begin - eliminated the chance that Tucker, or anyone else, would be called to the stand.
The messages which were leaked had already caused embarrassment to Fox News executives - but were allegedly nowhere as vulgar as the ones they were shown on the eve of the trial.
They showed Carlson attacking his bosses over the decision to call the election for Biden when the results were confirmed and others admitting that the claims made about vote rigging were farcical.
Some on the board suggested using an outside law firm to investigate Carlson, so worried were they that the damage done by his behavior could spread.
Carlson told a colleague the day after the election was called for Joe Biden: 'Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we've lost with our audience?'
In another, he said: 'Those f****** are destroying our credibility.'
He later wrote: 'A combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down is what's happening.'
Reader Comments
Funny, watch MSM news and your feelings get hurt all the time, yet they don't censor that BS or even try.
Kinda says it all.