Fox News Ratings Drop 56 Percent After Tucker Carlson’s Exit

Data shows Fox's Wednesday 8 p.m. time slot drew considerably fewer viewers than the prior Wednesday

Tucker Carlson speaks at Time Warner Center in New York on Nov. 29, 2017. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure this week, ratings for Fox News’s new 8 p.m. weekday show appear to be on the decline as viewership again tumbled on Wednesday night.

Data published by ratings service Nielsen show that Fox drew some 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade and “Fox News Tonight” in the timeslot that Carlson once occupied. That places the network at No. 2 behind MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.