“We thank him for his service to the network,” Fox said in the statement about the top-rated host, which noted that Carlson’s last show was on Friday.
The network did not provide a reason for Carlson’s departure.
In addition, the senior executive producer of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Justin Wells, was let go Monday, multiple sources told ABC News.
The decision to terminate Carlson and his producer was made this past Friday night by Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, a source familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Wells declined to comment to ABC News. A spokesperson for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The news comes nearly one week after a $787.5 million settlement agreement between the network and Dominion Voting Systems, which had accused Fox of knowingly pushing false conspiracy theories that the voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election in Joe Biden’s favor, in what Dominion claims was an effort to combat concerns over declining ratings and viewer retention.
can confirm does not seem to be enough to alter the election results. We should be honest and tell you that…”
In mid-November Carlson also texted one of his producers that “there wasn’t enough fraud to change the outcome” of the election, according to the filings, and later said that Sidney Powell, one of then-President Donald Trump’s attorneys and a vocal promulgator of election denialism, “is lying.”
Months later, on the day of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capital, Carlson called Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer” in a text message to the same producer
