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Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said Carlson's departure will only 'fuel' more Fox viewers to switch to his network.

"For a while, Fox News has been moving to become establishment media, and Tucker Carlson's removal is a big milestone in that effort," Newsmax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy told."Millions of viewers who liked the old Fox News have made the switch to Newsmax, and this will only fuel that trend."

In a startling announcement on Monday, Fox News Media said that the network and Carlson had agreed to"part ways" and that his last show had aired this past Friday. Carlson, who had been with Fox since 2009, was among the most-watched show hosts at Fox—at one point, he had the highest-rated cable program in the U.S.—and a huge moneymaker for the network.host was well known for pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election and was a liability for Fox at times.

Last Tuesday, just as the trial was about to begin, Fox reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion that meant Carlson wouldn't have to testify, as was expected, along with other top Fox News hosts. Dominion had alleged in its lawsuit that Carlson aired election-fraud claims about the voting machine company on his show but expressed doubts about those claims in private messages.

Newsmax Media CEO Christopher Ruddy, left, said Monday that Tucker Carlson's departure from Fox News is good news for conservative media outlets like his cable news channel.Carlson was widely viewed as one of the leading voices on the political right, and his departure from Fox News will likely shake up the media landscape. On Monday, Ruddy suggested Carlson's exit is part of a growing trend in which American audiences are switching away from Fox News to more right-wing outlets.

However, those ratings are still nowhere close to those of Fox, which remains the nation's most-watched cable news network. Newsmax's average household audience represents less than 0.1 percent of all TV households, which is 92 percent lower than the figure for Fox News,

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