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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

One quarter watch Fox News less often now that Tucker is gone

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

We talked a little bit about Tucker Carlson with Nigel earlier.

0:03.0

Let's keep going.

0:04.2

One quarter of US adults say they watch Fox News less often now that Tucker Carlson

0:10.7

has departed the network seems like a lot of people because I've always kind of

0:15.2

believed, look, you saw what O'Reilly left that everybody kind of freaked out.

0:19.2

So, oh my gosh, what's going to happen to Fox News after O'Reilly?

0:22.5

And oftentimes we talked about it in this, this building that the entity itself will always

0:29.5

be bigger than whatever performer performs on it.

0:33.1

There was only one person in the history of media where that wasn't true and that was

0:38.4

Rush Limbaugh.

0:39.4

Where Rush Limbaugh was bigger than the industry itself.

0:42.8

And noon to three across this country has yet, I mean, he's been gone two and a half years

0:47.9

and it is yet to recover and it probably never will.

0:50.2

There'll never be another Uber dominant destination listening from California to Maine and

0:56.5

all points in between like Rush Limbaugh.

0:59.1

And so when O'Reilly left, people freaked out, but look, O'Reilly went under a cloud

1:03.4

of scandal.

1:04.4

Yes.

1:05.4

You know, he went, obviously he was an incredibly talented guy, but he was sort of his

1:08.9

own worst enemy person who appeared oftentimes to lack a lot of self control and it did him

1:15.2

in.

1:16.2

And Tucker came in and took over in Fox News did just fine.

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