The lack of Tucker Carlson has prompted Fox News Channel to lose a whole lot of hundreds of viewers within the all-important 8 p.m. Eastern time slot.

According to information from TV information website TVNewser, an estimated 2,597,000 viewers became substitute program “Fox News Tonight,” which was hosted by Brian Kilmeade as the primary of a number of rotating hosts, on Monday after Mr. Carlson’s sudden departure.

That tally simply beat out the competing packages on CNN and MSNBC in the identical time slot, however a rankings drop of greater than 20% from “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Mr. Carlson’s program, nonetheless, had averaged 3.3 million viewers over the eight weeks previous to Monday, in line with the Hollywood Reporter.

The 700,000 fewer folks watching the present Monday represented an viewers decline of 21.3%.

Fox News Channel’s “The Five” discuss present had the very best rankings of any cable information program Monday, with about 3,220,000 viewers within the 5 p.m. EDT slot.

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