Famous American political pundit and former cable show host for Fox News Tucker Carlson made an exciting announcement on Monday, 11 December. He is launching a new paid content streaming service, the Tucker Carlson Network. The service went live on his website, Tuckercarlson.com, on Monday, the day of the announcement. A subscription to the service is priced at $9 a month.
Subscribers will have access to exclusive content by Carlson not available on his public social media channels, such as interviews, commentary videos, and the video version of his podcast (the audio-only versions will still be available for his non-paying viewers).
Neil Patel will be head of the new operation as CEO. Patel served as the chief policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney during the two terms of the Bush administration. He also co-founded the right-leaning news outlet The Daily Caller with Carlson in 2010. In 2020, Carlson sold his ownership of the Caller and ended all ties with the publication.
According to the reporting by The Wall Street Journal, Carlson and his team originally considered launching a paid content service through the social media platform X (also known as Twitter).
The former Fox News host seems to have a good relationship with the site’s new owner Elon Musk. Musk has reacted to Carslon’s X posts multiple times, and was interviewed on his late show in April, right before its cancellation. However, still according to WSJ, X could not provide the technical infrastructure for such an endeavor in time.
Carlson was abruptly fired from his Fox News show in April of this year, despite having the highest-rated cable show in the US at the time. In June, he started releasing exclusive video content to X, which included an interview with Former US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Evidently, he announced the launch of his new paid content service on X as well. On a new account dedicated to the Tucker Carlson Network, he posted this video:
In an earlier post, a video went into more detail about a launch. In it, Carlson told his viewers:
‘There’s so much deception. Big media companies won’t help, their job is to manipulate you. The government? Please! When was the last time you believed a word they said? Probably before COVID.
We’ve been thinking a lot about all of this in the past eight months…We’ve decided we need something new, something relentlessly honest that corporate gatekeepers can’t touch. So built a company called the Tucker Carlson Network, we’re rolling it out starting now’.
He went on to inform that his service will feature content similar to what he has been posting to his X account recently, that is interviews, documentaries, and analysis; or, ‘facts and honesty every day’, as Tucker Carlson put it.
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