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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Adam Gabbatt

It’s out $787.5m and top host Tucker Carlson. What’s next for Fox News?

Poster of Tucker Carlson looms over someone walking past Fox News building
The substitute for Tucker Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, has already managed to lose nearly half of Carlson’s 3 million viewers. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

In less than a week, Fox News has agreed to pay out $787.5m in a huge legal settlement and fired its most popular host, in an unprecedented crisis for the US’s most-watched cable news channel just as a critical presidential election cycle begins.

With the 2024 election essentially already under way, rightwing Fox News must now wrestle – quickly – with how to hold on to the audience that Tucker Carlson, the incendiary rightwing extremist who was fired on Monday, captured and cultivated during his murky seven-year tenure as a primetime host.

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