Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson slayed cable ratings with the debut of the first episode of his new Twitter show on Tuesday.
Within the first two hours of the episode’s post, it passed 9 million views.
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Carlson posted his first episode at 6 p.m. EDT. By 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, the video had garnered about 60 million views.
The former Fox host spent much of his show criticizing the corporate media for not doing their jobs and investigating stories, such as the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, who is behind the Black Lives Matter riots, or “what really happened to Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Not only are the media not interested in any of this, they’re actively hostile to anybody who is,” Carlson said. “In journalism, curiosity is the gravest crime.”
Carlson’s first Twitter show went up while Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier aired and ahead of the cable network’s Jesse Watters Primetime.
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In comparison, Baier’s program drew 1.78 million total viewers on Monday and averaged 1.45 million viewers during the month of May, according to a ratings report. Two million viewers tuned into Jesse Watters Primetime on Monday. Ratings show Watters’s program drew 1.7 million viewers on average in May.
Fox News announced it had parted ways with Carlson on April 24. Since Carlson’s leaving, the network has suffered a decline in its key prime-time viewing audience.
