Fox News said on Monday that network veteran Jesse Watters would fill the key prime-time slot left vacant by the exit of top-rated host Tucker Carlson.
settled a $787.5 million defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, in which the anchor played a starring role.
Fox added that Watters' show had more than 2.6 million viewers this year, of which 270,000 were from the key 25-54 age group, and was the highest rated in the 7 p.m. category in cable news history. Watters joined the network in 2002 as a production assistant and went on to interview former President Donald Trump and entrepreneur Mark Cuban on his weekend show "Watters' World", which started in 2017.
In May, the month after Carlson departed Fox News, the network’s average total primetime viewers declined by 32% from the previous month, according to AdWeek, citing Nielsen data. Yet Fox remains the highest-rated cable news network in total viewers and among adults 25-54.
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