Tucker Carlson's Old Fox News Timeslot Ratings Crater With Brian Kilmeade Losing Audience Nightly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade signed on Monday night to fill in for the defunct "Tucker Carlson Tonight," some combination of curiosity, lead-in and brand strength kept the network's total viewers numbers in a dead heat with Carlson's last show the Friday before.

But boy, what a difference a couple of days makes: While the 8 p.m. hour got 2.59 million total viewers on average on Monday, viewership dropped to 1.7 million viewers on Tuesday, and slid further to 1.33 million total viewers on Wednesday, falling just behind MSNBC in that time-slot, according to Nielsen live plus same-day figures.

Trend-wise, it's ugly: That's a 34% Monday-to-Tuesday drop, with another 22% slide from Tuesday's numbers on Wednesday night. Comparing Monday to Wednesday, average total viewership evaporated by half.

It's not hugely surprising, and certainly not a disaster for Fox News, which on its worst of nights is still the most-watched network in cable news. Wednesday's 1.33 million may be a poor showing compared with Fox's historical 8 p.m. audience, but it still more than doubled CNN's numbers that night (643,000 total viewers).

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Not that I personally care but

[grumpyduck]

1. I'm guessing viewers expected the same

type of material and were disappointed (having a sad) when they didn't get it.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Four nights Brian.

You've had your chance.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Brian Kilmeade: the fan that blows the air that makes paint dry

[Midnight Writer]

4. Gee, I'm so surprised Kilmeade's natural charisma didn't win the day for them.

Oh, well. They have a deep bench of equally charismatic mouthpieces to choose from.

[Blue Owl]

5. Looks like the fecal transplant didn't go so well....