Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly seems to be holding a grudge against the cable news network — and on Wednesday she shared some insider information.
Since firing Tucker Carlson, Fox News has seen their ratings collapse across its entire primetime lineup.
Kelly said the conservative boycott has “terrified” Fox News Channel executives.
“They’re terrified. They don’t know what to do,” Kelly told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Tuesday.
“There was a day when they didn’t view digital as a threat and as a competitor,” she said. “That day is gone.”
Kelly said she has been blacklisted by Fox News because of how afraid they’ve become — and Tucker Carlson may be the final straw if FNC let’s him out of his contract to start a digital show.
“Fox won’t let any single personality come on my show … because they understand that we’re a threat,” she said. But, “Fox is not the monopoly it used to be.”
“I don’t have to tell you that, given the ratings surge that you’re enjoying at the moment, and well deserved,” Kelly told Bolling. “So, they can’t let him go because he’s a threat to them.”
“What if Tucker went someplace and actually launched a live broadcast at [his previous timeslot]? They’d get seriously hurt even worse than they have,” she predicted.
“The ratings, my gosh. They’re terrible! We are four weeks post-Tucker’s termination in the anchor desk role at 8:00 p.m., and they are down 64% in the key advertising [demographic] … they’ve lost two-thirds of their younger audience and more than half of their older audience in the 8:00 p.m,” Kelly said. “The boycott is working and it’s continuing.”
The rating downturn is across the board during all the network’s primetime shows, Kelly explained.
“That’s not sustainable. Fox cannot allow that to go on,” she continued. “I don’t know what the solution is other than hiring Tucker back, which they’re definitely not going to do.”
“But the next best move would be to free him up, so at least you release some of the anger from among his core fans,” Kelly said.
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.@megynkelly: Fox News is "terrified, they don't know what to do."
"The boycott is working." @ericbolling
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