Like Gutfeld, who also recently launched a popular weeknight talk show, Watters hosted a highly rated weekend program for several years. Known for his ambush interviews and penchant for courting controversy, the one-time O’Reilly lackey’s star has quickly risen at Fox.
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“straight news” anchor Martha MacCallum to mid-afternoon and replacing her hour with a nightly opinion talk show.Įventually, after a year of filling the time slot with a rotating series of hosts, the network rewarded Watters with the hour this past January. In the aftermath of Fox News’ brief ratings slump following Trump’s election loss, the network shook up its weekday lineup and leaned harder into overt right-wing commentary. (Carlson’s show, however, regularly draws more viewers in the coveted 25-54 advertising demographic.)
In fact, the culture war-driven gabfest has even overtaken Tucker Carlson Tonight as the most-watched show in all of cable news. Having already risen to a solid third place in Fox News viewership by the 2020 election, the late-afternoon panel show The Five-featuring popular Fox News veterans Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters- eventually passed Hannity for second place in August 2021, and hasn’t looked back since. “FOX News Media is beyond proud that his number one show at 9PM is an integral part of our primetime lineup and a pivotal part of our success for 26 years.” “We are the envy of every other network in having to compete with ourselves after beating everything else in cable, but no other host in the industry has the longevity and staying power of Sean Hannity,” wrote a network spokesperson. Hannity Proposed Hunter Biden Pardon to ‘Smooth Over’ Jan. Conservative cable viewers seemed far more interested in Carlson’s brand of taking Trumpism’s far-right nationalism, fervent anti-immigrant rhetoric, and COVID trutherism and running with it over Hannity’s increasingly stale Trump boosterism (and insatiable Hillary Clinton obsession).Īnd the longer Hannity-now the longest-running cable news host in history-has traversed a post-Trump world, the further he’s tumbled down the ratings mountaintop. But toward the end of Trump’s term, Tucker Carlson-who essentially replaced O’Reilly in primetime- supplanted Hannity as the top dog at Fox News.
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