Tucker Carlson to Launch Own Streaming Network

Matt Webb Mitovich
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After six months of sharing his shtick via Twitter (now known as X), Fox News vet Tucker Carlson is ready to launch his own eponymous streaming platform.

“It’s time to build an alternative to legacy media, and you can help us do it,” the sign-up page for TCN, Tucker Carlson Network, tells prospective members. “It’s time they stopped hiding the truth from you. We’ll expose them together.”

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For $9 a month (or $6/month if paid annually), TCN subscribers are promised, unlimited access to “five brand-new shows, speeches, films and more from Tucker Carlson, “premium investigative reports and short documentaries,” “exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at Tucker’s biggest interviews,” and “access to Tucker’s personal inbox to ask him anything that’s on your mind as part of weekly Ask Tucker episodes.”

The programming lineup for TCN will include The Tucker Carlson Encounter, Tucker Carlson Uncensored, The Tucker Carlson Interview, TC Shorts, Ask Tucker, After the Tucker Carlson Interview, Tucker Carlson Sworn Enemy Tour (which sounds just lovely), and Tucker Carlson Films.

A launch date has not yet been announced; watch an explainer below:

“The return of Tucker is not only better but also bigger,” the sign-up page says, via “a platform centered around the core American ideals of freely discussing, debating, and searching for the truth.”

News of Carlson’s ouster from Fox News broke on April 24, with the cabler saying in a statement, “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”

Carlson’s exit came in the wake of Fox News Channel reaching a settlement in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, just as their much-publicized trial was about to get underway. Dominion claimed it was owed damages resulting from Fox News’ airing of false claims about its role in the 2020 election. Evidence presented at trial included emails and texts gathered from Fox executives and anchors — Carlson and Sean Hannity included — that hinted that people working at the company knowingly put forth false information about the election and Dominion’s involvement in it.

Justin Nelson, an attorney representing Dominion, said the case was settled for $787.5 million.

Weeks after his ouster from the airwaves, Carlson said in a three-and-a-half minute Twitter/X video that the cable show he had hosted for six-and-a-half years on would continue on via the social media platform. Fox News — which to this day reportedly continues to pay Carlson — sent Carlson a cease and desist letter. Carlson’s lawyers in turn asserted his First Amendment right to free speech.

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