Tucker Carlson launches new $72 per year subscription service seven months after being fired from Fox News following $787 million payout to Dominion
- The former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight has announced a new 'streaming platform' for his 'exclusive content'
- Carlson was fired from Fox News in April after the company was forced to pay out $787 million in the Dominion defamation case
- His show attracted more than 3.5 million viewers a night before it was canceled
Tucker Carlson has launched a $72-a-year subscription service that allows fans to watch his content after he was unceremoniously fired from Fox News in April.
The former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight announced his “brand new thing” and encouraged fans to sign up and “join team Tucker.”
It comes seven months after he was fired from Fox News, days after the network was forced to pay out $787 million in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.
Since then, Carlson has been uploading his interviews with divisive figures like Andrew Tate and Viktor Orban to X.
But now he's starting his own streaming service, saying, “Time flies when you're unemployed, but actually we've been working in secret for months and producing a ton of stuff.”
Carlson shared the news on his X account in a short video clip urging fans to sign up
Fans can sign up on his site to access the “exclusive content” with a “limited time offer” to “become a founder.”
Carlson was fired from Fox in the wake of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit.
Dominion had sued Fox for $1.6 billion for defamation, claiming that hosts like Carlson knew then-President Trump's election fraud was untrue but pushed them for ratings.
They settled at the eleventh hour for $787 million, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly publicized trial in which Carlson and other presenters would likely have been called as witnesses.
Carlson was not told at the time why he was being forced out, but Fox CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly said the decision was made “from the top.”
Several insiders have claimed that it was News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch who made the decision.
Since his firing, Carlson has been hosting his shows on X, with recent episodes receiving hundreds of millions of views.
His fans are promised 'hours' of exclusive content on the platform
It will be launched in the coming days
In recent months he has interviewed increasingly polarizing figures – including Hungary's far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and accused sex trafficker and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate.
This week he interviewed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones – who told him that President Joe Biden is drugged on amphetamines and wanders around the White House naked and lost in the middle of the night.
Carlson now records his content on his own site, TuckerCarlson.com.
The site promises that they are “just days away from launching Tucker Carlson's new streaming platform” and urges people to “beat the crowd.”
It's claimed that there will be “hours of exclusive members-only content hosted by Tucker Carlson.”
His Fox show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, drew 3.5 million viewers every night, but in recent years it has been called the “raciest show on cable.”
Then a series of controversies, including the Dominion's claims and Carlson's own comments about the January 6 riots, brought him increasingly into hot water.
Carlson joined Fox as a contributor in 2009, after previously voicing his conservative opinions on CNN shows.
He got his own show on the network in 2016 and quickly became its most-watched host, cementing his own fan base and reputation for taking some of the most extreme, far-right positions on cable news.