The presenter Tucker Carlson, a beacon of the American extreme right, leaves Fox News, a chain in which he was one of his greatest assets.
The announcement, an unexpected surprise released on television this Monday, comes just under a week after the agreement by which Fox News agreed to pay 787.5 million dollars (710 million euros) to the Dominion electoral recount company. to avoid a defamation trial related to the big lie of Donald Trump, who still refuses to admit his defeat in the 2020 presidential election in the United States.
"FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," the network's statement said.
"We thank you for your service to the network as a presenter and before that as a collaborator."
The company adds that the last broadcast of its
Tucker Carlson Tonight
program was last Friday, which suggests that it was not a friendly break.
From now on, the gap left by Carlson, who hosted the
show
with the highest audience on cable television in the country, will be renamed
Fox News Tonight.
He maintains his place on the grid, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 a.m., on the Peninsula).
“It will be an interim show run by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named,” the network adds.
The statement was read this morning live with a solemn cadence by one of the presenters of the chain owned by News Corp.
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