It looks like Fox News wants a war with Tucker Carlson.
Fox News showed it’s willing to play dirty.
And you won’t believe how Fox News plans to keep Tucker Carlson off the air.
Fox News and Carlson are locked in an increasingly bitter standoff over Carlson’s contract.
The network wants to pay out the remainder of Carlson’s deal — believed to be $25 million which runs through the end of 2024 — to keep Carlson off the air by enforcing the non-compete clause.
Carlson thought he was moving towards a settlement that would allow Carlson out of his deal to broadcast his show as a livestream on Twitter.
But Fox News dug in once management saw how ratings collapsed in the wake of yanking Carlson off the air.
Now Fox News is going to whatever lengths necessary to stop Carlson from broadcasting a show even if Carlson wins the legal battle to get out of his contract.
Carlson long ago stopped broadcasting his show from the Fox News studio in Washington, D.C.
That’s because Carlson left Washington after an Antifa mob descended upon his home and terrorized his wife while he was not there.
Carlson then began broadcasting his show from studios at his homes in Florida and Maine.
Now Carlson’s construction manager, Patrick Feeney, told the Daily Mail that Fox News crews showed up at Carlson’s house and stripped the set bare of all equipment and infrastructure.
“Fox came in last week and got all their s— out of there,” Feeney reported. “They took the set and everything, all the equipment, the chairs, the desk, the fake walls, everything.”
Feeney explained that Fox News dismantling Carlson’s set meant that even if Carlson got out of his Fox News deal tomorrow, he could not go back on the air for a while because of the length of time necessary to build a new set.
“There’s no hardware in place at all. There’s not even an infrastructure for a TV studio for a long time…We just came to clean it up and get it looking like something again. There’s no imminent venture. We’re just getting ready in case something does happen. There’s nothing we’re doing other than cleaning the place up, shoring up the walls, making it look good again,” Feeney added.
Fox News originally thought it would be no big deal if Carlson took his show to Twitter.
But Fox News management recognized the changing media landscape where Americans have more options to consume news.
Fox also saw that the audience leaving Fox News over the Carlson firing was not a temporary blip.
Executives are clearly worried that if Carlson restarts his show as a streaming property on Twitter it will lead to an even larger exodus of viewers.
And Fox News will clearly go to any lengths to prevent that from happening.
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