Tucker Carlson Tonight

The four videos that Tucker Carlson has uploaded to Twitter since he was fired from Fox News have drawn intense interest from people in the overlapping worlds of media, tech and politics. The million-dollar question: Can the firebrand conservative commentator cultivate a devoted following on a brand-new platform?

Twitter does not disclose information about the number of people who watch videos on the platform, making it difficult to discern the size of the viewing audience for Carlson’s incendiary straight-to-the-camera monologues about topics like the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump and the war in Ukraine.

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But data shared exclusively with NBC News this week offers a window into how Carlson’s videos are performing on Twitter since he and his production team started posting them on June 6, just 43 days after Fox News announced that it had agreed to “part ways” with the host of the most popular primetime show on the network.

The first episode of "Tucker on Twitter," a roughly 10-minute monologue in which Carlson asserted without evidence that Ukrainian forces attacked a dam in Russian-controlled territory, netted roughly 26 million video views, according to statistics shared by Tubular Labs, a third-party media analytics firm that has access to the platform’s developer tools and contracts with other major internet platforms, including Facebook and YouTube.


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The second episode, a more than 12-minute monologue in which Carlson appeared to suggest that the threat of American white supremacy has been overstated, received 13.2 million video views. The video views for the third episode, released hours after Trump was arraigned in a Miami courtroom, improved over the second installment, netting 18.7 million, according to the statistics.

The numbers shared by Tubular Labs are not publicly available. The “views” metric that appears under most videos on Twitter refers to the approximate number of users who saw the tweet while scrolling through their timelines — not the number of people who pressed play and started watching.


In fact, Twitter owner Elon Musk’s team appears to have recently removed the real-time tally of video views that used to be a staple of the platform.

Justin Wells, Carlson’s executive producer, did not immediately reply to an email on Thursday seeking more data on the “Tucker on Twitter” videos, including metrics such as video starts, retention rates (the average amount of time a user spends watching a video, calculated as a percentage point), completion rates and total minutes viewed.

Twitter’s press office did not immediately respond to emails seeking information about the metrics and requesting comment on the Tubular Labs data. NBC News received two emails with the Musk-era Twitter press team’s default reply: the “poop” emoji.

A spokesperson for Carlson could not immediately be reached for comment.

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The insights come at a pivotal time for Carlson, who established himself as one of the leading voices in the Trump-era conservative movement while at Fox News and must now start fresh on Twitter, a much more crowded platform that may not be as familiar to the older viewers who make up a core part of Fox’s audience, according to Reece Peck, an associate professor in the department of media culture at the City University of New York who studies news.


Carlson is also facing stern legal warnings from Fox News. The company sent him a cease-and-desist letter this week demanding that he stop posting videos to Twitter because he is still under contract at the network. Carlson’s lawyers have argued that the network cannot infringe on his First Amendment rights.

Meanwhile, Musk and Twitter’s newly installed CEO, Linda Yaccarino, are attempting to pitch the platform as a welcome home to other well-known television news broadcasters, including Don Lemon (who was fired from CNN on the same day Fox News dismissed Carlson) and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. (Yaccarino used to oversee advertising sales at NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News.)

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“It’d be great to have @maddow, @donlemon & others on the left put their shows on this platform,” Musk wrote on June 8 above a retweet of the second installment of Carlson’s show. “You will receive our full support. The digital town square is for all.”

The metrics obtained by NBC News help clarify misconceptions that have spread on social media.


In the days since “Tucker on Twitter” debuted, pro-Carlson accounts on Twitter have made claims about the size of his audience based on the number of “views” listed underneath his tweets. The day after the first episode dropped, for example, Carlson’s biographer, Chadwick Moore, tweeted in part: “Tucker’s video got 90 million, and counting.”

The video views data shared with NBC News helps paint a more well-rounded portrait of Carlson’s performance on Twitter, but the numbers might overstate his viewership, too. Twitter’s official guidelines for content creators states that a “video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.”

Carlson’s admirers have implied that his viewership on Twitter dwarfs the average number of viewers who reliably tuned into “Tucker Carlson Tonight” in the 8 p.m. hour of Fox News, which attracted a nightly average of 3.391 million viewers in April, the final month it was on air, according to Nielsen, the television industry’s leading measurement firm.

But those claims are misleading, and the comparisons are apples and oranges, as the former president of Nielsen explained in a widely cited 2015 blog post.


“In TV, the standard measurement unit for viewership is the average-minute audience — how many viewers there are in an average minute of content,” Steve Hasker wrote in the post. “In the digital space, on the other hand, video measurement is commonly expressed as the gross number of times the video is viewed,” even if only for a second or two.

“These two metrics are quite different, and comparing one to the other unfairly tilts the comparison against TV,” he added

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Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha haha Originally Posted by Presj22

if Nielson says so


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it's Jesse!

the perfect successor to THE GOAT!!!

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Five takeaways from Fox News’s prime-time shuffle

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4...-time-shuffle/


Fox News made major changes Monday to its weeknight lineup, shifting some of its top pundits into new time slots and signaling the beginning of a new era in prime time at the network.


The changes, which go into effect next month, offer clues about the conservative media giant’s strategy ahead of next year’s GOP primary and presidential election.


The reshuffling also comes amid a time of upheaval across the cable news business more generally and as Fox specifically deals with the fallout of a slew of legal headaches and controversies it has faced over its coverage of the 2020 election.
Here are five takeaways.

Jesse Watters sees his star rise further at Fox

Jesse Watters, who got his start in Fox’s 8 p.m. hour as a correspondent for Bill O’Reilly’s program, is taking over Tucker Carlson’s prime-time hour. That gives him the keys to what has, in recent years, ranked as the network’s most-watched evening hour.


Carlson was ousted by the network last month and has since launched a version of his popular Fox program on Twitter. Watters was granted his own show at 7 p.m. last January and has reaped ratings success for Fox, consistently beating out other cable channels in that time slot.


Like Carlson, Watters has been no stranger to controversy during his tenure at Fox.


Dr. Anthony Fauci, former presidential medical adviser, called for Watters to be fired a month before his solo show was launched after the host suggested activists ambush Fauci and go for a rhetorical “kill shot” to his credibility in the form of questions about a Chinese lab’s links to the coronavirus’s origins.


“The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask,” said Fauci, who has been public about the death threats he’s received. “And for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot, to ambush me?”


Fox defended its host at the time, saying his comments had been taken out of context.


“Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context,” the statement said.


It was a key moment in Watters’s ascendance at Fox, as the network’s defense of his comments showed it was investing stock in one of the younger, more popular members of its roster.



Monday’s lineup shuffle shows Watters, who had been widely viewed as the odds-on favorite to take over for Carlson, has solidified himself as a fixture that the network is now pinning its hopes for a key post on.



Gutfeld takes his schtick to prime time

Greg Gutfeld has been another one of Fox’s rising talents for months, and now he’s getting a chance to bring his flair for comedy to prime time.


The network launched an eponymous Late Night comedy program for Gutfeld at 11 p.m. in 2021, and the conservative pundit has responded by beating out Late Night shows on the major broadcast networks for several weeks running.



Fox’s experiment with Gutfeld paying off proves that there is an appetite for conservative comedy among its audience and that the network sees this as a growth area on which it can capitalize.


Moving into prime time is likewise a significant milestone for Gutfeld, another co-host of “The Five,” who has worked himself from weekend host and comedian to a leading pundit now at the center of Fox’s daily programming during its most-watched hours.



But the lights are brighter in prime time, and Fox is wagering Gutfeld’s style will land well in host Laura Ingraham’s former time slot as it looks to hold on to its outsized audience share in the hour before the late local news on the broadcast networks airs.


Hannity, Ingraham remain as Fox mainstays

Sean Hannity and Ingraham are two of Fox’s longest serving hosts, and while Hannity is staying in his 9 p.m. time slot, Ingraham’s show is moving up three hours from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m.


Ingraham’s Washington-based program focusing on politics and current events will replace Watters, who was given his first weekday solo show after anchor Martha MacCallum’s newscast was moved to mid-afternoons.


Fox choosing to feature Ingraham’s conservative commentary at 7 p.m. shows it is committed to opinion-based programming in that hour and is now using one of its household names to kick off, instead of wrap-up, its nightly lineup of punditry.


Replacing Watters at 7 p.m. could benefit Ingraham, who will now follow the network’s top-watched newscast at 6 p.m. and will have the advantage of reacting to the top news of the day three hours sooner each weeknight.


Keeping Hannity and Ingraham in the prime-time mix also suggests that Fox would rather bet on horses it knows can deliver ratings, rather than look outside its ranks to fill key vacancies and stay atop the ultra-competitive cable news business.


Pro-Trump talk is welcome in prime time on Fox

Keeping Hannity and Ingraham in prime-time shows Fox is not straying from pro-Trump commentary, as some critics on the right have suggested in recent months.

Text messages from Hannity and Ingraham made public as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot showed the two hosts pleading with former President Trump’s aides to call the mob off, with Ingraham at one point writing the spectacle was “hurting all of us.”


The episode was a clear window into the mutually beneficial relationship between Trump, an avid cable news watcher, and the conservative media figures who have long backed him.


Watters and Gutfeld, meanwhile, have similarly used commentary supportive of Trump to boost their credibility with Fox’s conservative audience, much of which remains loyal to the former president.



As the 2024 GOP primary heats up, the assembling of the four pundits suggests it is unlikely viewers can expect to see a pivot away from Trump on Fox in prime time anytime soon.


Gutfeld, Watters do represent a kind of shift

Fox has always leaned on prime-time pundits who appeal to conservative audiences.


But in tapping Gutfeld and Watters for prime-time shows, Fox News is leaning into the news-entertainment business given the voices of the two up-and-coming conservative media stars.


Neither Gutfeld nor Watters are cut from the same kind of mantel as Carlson or Hannity.


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While Gutfeld has used explicit joke telling to grow his audience, Watters has more often relied on quirky and unorthodox segments to spark shock, awe and sometimes controversy during his nightly show.


While Gutfeld has used explicit joke telling to grow his audience, Watters has more often relied on quirky and unorthodox segments to spark shock, awe and sometimes controversy during his nightly show.



The pair’s ascendence also comes as Fox makes a push into entertainment programming on streaming, publishing stand-up specials with controversial comedians like Roseanne Barr and Rob Schneider on its “Fox Nation” platform.



As the news consumption habits of Americans change, and public polling shows more people are growing increasingly tired of partisan politics, Fox attempting to carve a lane out in the political entertainment space can be seen as an acknowledgement the world it operates in is changing rapidly.



Tags Anthony Fauci Donald Trump Fox News Greg Gutfeld Greg Gutfeld Jesse Watters Laura Ingraham Sean Hannity Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson

it's Jesse!

the perfect successor to THE GOAT!!!

BAAHHAJHAHHAAAAAAAA


Five takeaways from Fox News’s prime-time shuffle

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4...-time-shuffle/


Fox News made major changes Monday to its weeknight lineup, shifting some of its top pundits into new time slots and signaling the beginning of a new era in prime time at the network.


The changes, which go into effect next month, offer clues about the conservative media giant’s strategy ahead of next year’s GOP primary and presidential election.


The reshuffling also comes amid a time of upheaval across the cable news business more generally and as Fox specifically deals with the fallout of a slew of legal headaches and controversies it has faced over its coverage of the 2020 election.
Here are five takeaways.

Jesse Watters sees his star rise further at Fox

Jesse Watters, who got his start in Fox’s 8 p.m. hour as a correspondent for Bill O’Reilly’s program, is taking over Tucker Carlson’s prime-time hour. That gives him the keys to what has, in recent years, ranked as the network’s most-watched evening hour.


Carlson was ousted by the network last month and has since launched a version of his popular Fox program on Twitter. Watters was granted his own show at 7 p.m. last January and has reaped ratings success for Fox, consistently beating out other cable channels in that time slot.


Like Carlson, Watters has been no stranger to controversy during his tenure at Fox.


Dr. Anthony Fauci, former presidential medical adviser, called for Watters to be fired a month before his solo show was launched after the host suggested activists ambush Fauci and go for a rhetorical “kill shot” to his credibility in the form of questions about a Chinese lab’s links to the coronavirus’s origins.


“The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask,” said Fauci, who has been public about the death threats he’s received. “And for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a kill shot, to ambush me?”


Fox defended its host at the time, saying his comments had been taken out of context.


“Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context,” the statement said.


It was a key moment in Watters’s ascendance at Fox, as the network’s defense of his comments showed it was investing stock in one of the younger, more popular members of its roster.



Monday’s lineup shuffle shows Watters, who had been widely viewed as the odds-on favorite to take over for Carlson, has solidified himself as a fixture that the network is now pinning its hopes for a key post on.



Gutfeld takes his schtick to prime time

Greg Gutfeld has been another one of Fox’s rising talents for months, and now he’s getting a chance to bring his flair for comedy to prime time.


The network launched an eponymous Late Night comedy program for Gutfeld at 11 p.m. in 2021, and the conservative pundit has responded by beating out Late Night shows on the major broadcast networks for several weeks running.



Fox’s experiment with Gutfeld paying off proves that there is an appetite for conservative comedy among its audience and that the network sees this as a growth area on which it can capitalize.


Moving into prime time is likewise a significant milestone for Gutfeld, another co-host of “The Five,” who has worked himself from weekend host and comedian to a leading pundit now at the center of Fox’s daily programming during its most-watched hours.



But the lights are brighter in prime time, and Fox is wagering Gutfeld’s style will land well in host Laura Ingraham’s former time slot as it looks to hold on to its outsized audience share in the hour before the late local news on the broadcast networks airs.


Hannity, Ingraham remain as Fox mainstays

Sean Hannity and Ingraham are two of Fox’s longest serving hosts, and while Hannity is staying in his 9 p.m. time slot, Ingraham’s show is moving up three hours from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m.


Ingraham’s Washington-based program focusing on politics and current events will replace Watters, who was given his first weekday solo show after anchor Martha MacCallum’s newscast was moved to mid-afternoons.


Fox choosing to feature Ingraham’s conservative commentary at 7 p.m. shows it is committed to opinion-based programming in that hour and is now using one of its household names to kick off, instead of wrap-up, its nightly lineup of punditry.


Replacing Watters at 7 p.m. could benefit Ingraham, who will now follow the network’s top-watched newscast at 6 p.m. and will have the advantage of reacting to the top news of the day three hours sooner each weeknight.


Keeping Hannity and Ingraham in the prime-time mix also suggests that Fox would rather bet on horses it knows can deliver ratings, rather than look outside its ranks to fill key vacancies and stay atop the ultra-competitive cable news business.


Pro-Trump talk is welcome in prime time on Fox

Keeping Hannity and Ingraham in prime-time shows Fox is not straying from pro-Trump commentary, as some critics on the right have suggested in recent months.

Text messages from Hannity and Ingraham made public as part of the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot showed the two hosts pleading with former President Trump’s aides to call the mob off, with Ingraham at one point writing the spectacle was “hurting all of us.”


The episode was a clear window into the mutually beneficial relationship between Trump, an avid cable news watcher, and the conservative media figures who have long backed him.


Watters and Gutfeld, meanwhile, have similarly used commentary supportive of Trump to boost their credibility with Fox’s conservative audience, much of which remains loyal to the former president.



As the 2024 GOP primary heats up, the assembling of the four pundits suggests it is unlikely viewers can expect to see a pivot away from Trump on Fox in prime time anytime soon.


Gutfeld, Watters do represent a kind of shift

Fox has always leaned on prime-time pundits who appeal to conservative audiences.


But in tapping Gutfeld and Watters for prime-time shows, Fox News is leaning into the news-entertainment business given the voices of the two up-and-coming conservative media stars.


Neither Gutfeld nor Watters are cut from the same kind of mantel as Carlson or Hannity.


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While Gutfeld has used explicit joke telling to grow his audience, Watters has more often relied on quirky and unorthodox segments to spark shock, awe and sometimes controversy during his nightly show.


While Gutfeld has used explicit joke telling to grow his audience, Watters has more often relied on quirky and unorthodox segments to spark shock, awe and sometimes controversy during his nightly show.



The pair’s ascendence also comes as Fox makes a push into entertainment programming on streaming, publishing stand-up specials with controversial comedians like Roseanne Barr and Rob Schneider on its “Fox Nation” platform.



As the news consumption habits of Americans change, and public polling shows more people are growing increasingly tired of partisan politics, Fox attempting to carve a lane out in the political entertainment space can be seen as an acknowledgement the world it operates in is changing rapidly.



Tags Anthony Fauci Donald Trump Fox News Greg Gutfeld Greg Gutfeld Jesse Watters Laura Ingraham Sean Hannity Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

i like the first tag you’ve got listed in that article lol and Jesse, is that Uncle Jesse? Surprised you think that anybody but Tucker is a good successor to Tucker

Waco sure has a thing for middle aged white dudes……..I’d say he trends to be one gay motherfucker, but that wouldn’t be a very woke thing to say…….


elg…….

Waco sure has a thing for middle aged white dudes……..I’d say he trends to be one gay motherfucker, but that wouldn’t be a very woke thing to say…….


elg……. Originally Posted by elghund

if you say so


twk

if you say so


twk Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

He did say so. By the way, those last two posts you made, you forgot to put down your “twk” signature. Were those sanctioned posts?

He did say so. By the way, those last two posts you made, you forgot to put down your “twk” signature. Were those sanctioned posts? Originally Posted by Presj22

Yes

i'm TWK and i approve this post


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Hunter Biden's Former BFF Makes Stunning Admissions to Tucker Carlson

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/julior...rcher-n2626546


Julio Rosas | August 02, 2023 3:30 PM


Tucker Carlson released part one of an interview with Hunter Biden's former business partner Devon Archer after he provided testimony to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee about the Biden family's business dealings.


https://twitter.com/i/status/1686799149109256192


At the top of the interview, Carlson pressed Archer on what specific skills Hunter Biden brought to the table for the business he was conducting.
"At the end of the day, he had a career in Washington...[He] had a very big network in D.C. and brought that knowhow and understanding of D.C. and, ultimately, the Biden brand," Archer replied, going on to agree with Carlson that Hunter's biggest asset was the "Biden brand."


"Do you think that he would have been in those businesses, not having a business background, without his father being in a government position?" Carlson asked.


"It's hard to speculate, in those regards, I mean, I think when we initially met and he talked about his advisory business...It seemed like a new and interesting network for us to expand our business...Obviously the brand of Biden, you know, adds a lot of power when your dad is the vice president," Archer explained.


When it came to the over 20 phone calls Hunter had with Joe Biden during business meetings, Archer said in hindsight that was an odd move, especially since it was on speaker phone, but maintained he did not know whether it was coordinated to happen during the meetings. Sometimes it would be the elder Biden calling his son, but Archer acknowledged putting your dad, who is the vice president, on speaker phone during meetings was an "abuse of soft power."

"Toxic Tucker takes down Ice Cube"
BAAHAHAHAAA


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...094537310.html


Ice Cube Should Have Checked Himself Before He Wrecked Himself With Tucker Carlson

we should note the source of the "outrage" ...





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let's roll that "TOXIC" footage shall we?

want to know the truth about the Jan 6th response or lack of?

ask the former Capitol Police Chief. Carlson did ..




optics.

BAAHHAAAAAAAAAA

want to know the truth about the Jan 6th response or lack of?
Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

I'll just bring up 2 of many thoughts:

1. Sund was fired for his handling of the situation (being "asked to step down" actually means you're fired).

2. Steven Sund is selling his book to Carlson fans.

Fired because he didn't tow the party line ????

Surprise surprise surprise