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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he is launching his own video streaming subscription service, which will cost $72 per year.
Carlson announces subscription service
“We have been without work for seven or eight months now. Hard to know, time flies when you’re unemployed,” Carlson said in a video he released Saturday.
“But actually, we’ve been working in secret for months and producing a ton of material – interviews and so on – and all of it has now found its way onto tuckercarlson.com,” he continued. “We’ll be launching something brand new soon.”
The annual subscription promises “founding members” access to “hours of exclusive member content hosted by Tucker Carlson,” a “FREE bonus month added to your subscription” and the ability to purchase “limited edition merchandise,” according to The Messenger.
Forbes reported that Carlson’s subscription service will offer “three shows with new episodes each week, including ‘The Tucker Carlson Encounter,’ which will be accessible without a subscription, ‘Tucker Carlson Uncensored’ and ‘Ask Tucker,’ a segment in which Tucker will respond to questions from subscribers.”
“Other shows include ‘Tucker Carlson Shorts’ with new episodes every two weeks and ‘The Tucker Carlson Interview,’ featuring interviews of Carlson released every month, while other programming includes behind-the-scenes content from Carlson’s interviews and his speaking tour, the ‘Sworn Enemy Tour,’” Forbes continued.
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Carlson’s Fox News fire
This comes after Carlson was shockingly fired by Fox News in April, despite being the network’s most popular host.
Carlson later claimed that his firing was part of Fox News’ $787 million settlement in the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, according to The Guardian.
Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel were reportedly “looking to raise money” for a new media company in July. At the time, it was reported that Carlson and Patel had already “lined up financiers, lawyers and media strategists” for this venture.
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Carlson and Trump
This also comes after Axios reported that former First Lady Melania Trump wants her husband Donald Trump to make Carlson his running mate for next year’s presidential election. Melania reportedly believes Carlson would be a “powerful extension on stage” of her husband as his running mate.
However, Trump’s staffers are reportedly concerned that Carlson would “outshine” the former president and that the talk show host “can’t be controlled.”
Other candidates Trump is reportedly considering include Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Reps. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
A Trump campaign official denied that the former president is looking past the Republican Party primaries.
“The Axios story is pure fiction,” the assistant said. “Unless there is a formal announcement from President Trump or his campaign team, then it is just speculation and it does not come from us. President Trump is solely focused on winning the Republican nomination and then defeating Crooked Joe Biden in the general election.”
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