It’s widely assumed that the scumbag Murdoch family will do all they can to keep Tucker Carlson off the air through the 2024 election. Some say he wasn’t even officially ‘fired’ yet by Fox News, just that they cancelled his show and still have him under contract at $20 million per year.
But if Carlson does unexpectedly become available for hire, Newsmax and OAN are going to go after him hard. So is something called “News Nation”, a left wing propaganda network that’s biggest headline is hiring the disgraced Chris Cuomo.
The challenge for Newsmax will be making it last. In the wake of the 2020 election, Newsmax also saw a ratings bump as it refused to acknowledge Joe Biden’s presidential election win.
But following Biden’s inauguration, Newsmax viewership slipped and Fox News surged once again.
Meanwhile One America Network, another right-wing news channel, has also made overtures to Carlson.
Founder and CEO Robert Herring ‘would like to extend an invitation to Carlson to meet for negotiation to become a part of the OAN team’, according to a report about Carlson’s departure on the OAN website.
As the biggest name in cable news, Carlson is unlikely to head anywhere that can’t pay a huge salary – or offer the massive reach that he’s used to.
In a different vein, fledgling cable news network NewsNation, which bills itself as the politically moderate channel, is keen to recruit both Carlson and fired CNN anchor Don Lemon, according to TMZ.
Both would likely get salaries far below what they recently earned (Lemon apparently made $7 million per year at CNN) if they joined the network.
NewsNation has form for hiring anchors who’ve left major networks under a cloud.
The network signed up Chris Cuomo in October 2022 after he was fired by CNN, and Cuomo’s show regularly features guest appearances from Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News host.
NewsNation would not comment on the Carlson rumor when approached by DailyMail.com earlier this week.