NEW YORK (AP) — Before ousting Tucker Carlson, Fox News had twice fired wildly popular hosts – and both times the network recovered better than the stars it cut loose. Fox’s dismissals of Glenn Beck in 2011 and Bill O’Reilly in 2017 offer lessons in what the post-Carlson fallout might be. Fox’s two most popular programs last year — Carlson’s being one of them — were the replacements for Beck and O’Reilly. Beck was a sensation at Fox during the first term of former President Barack Obama. It makes Watters an obvious candidate to move from 7 to 8 p.m., as Carlson did in replacing O’Reilly.

Source: Fox News April 25, 2023 15:31 UTC