Tucker Carlson isn't going away anytime soon and he is making it his mission to beat his former employer at their own game.
The former Fox News primetime host is teaming with White House adviser and his former college roommate Neil Patel to raise funds -- reportedly hundreds of millions of dollars -- and start a new media company that will potentially call Twitter its home.
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The new company will have a focus on longer versions of the free videos Carlson already puts out on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported. But the company will truly make its money from users who subscribe to his channel.
Twitter Blue allows users who meet eligibility requirements to create subscriptions for which their followers can sign up to for a fee.
Tucker's initial post-Fox video on Twitter has garnered well over 100 million "views" and the first episode of his new news show format achieved around 119 million views; his second, 60 million; his fourth, 32 million. Carlson's latest episode, released June 27, has less than 13 million views.
Carlson and Patel have been able to round up financiers, lawyers and media strategists to make his vision a reality, the Journal reported, and the new company would have its own website and mobile app.
The team is also exploring housing the network on other platforms beyond Twitter as well.
Tucker Carlson was ousted from his top-rated primetime news program on Fox News earlier this year.
In a recent podcast interview, Carlson said he didn't know why he was fired in April. Speculation has emerged that Carlson was as part of the fallout from Fox News' $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over defamation allegations.
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