I dunno. They're in the middle of negotiating their carry fees and they're looking for like a 40% boost from $2.18 to over $3 per subscriber. This couldn't come at a worse time for Fox, as cable subscriptions are definitely down and while The Olds are there through sheer inertia, Comcast et. al. probably aren't in the mood to pass those costs onto a bunch of millennials and GenXers who have kept their cable through sheer inertia. Which puts them in a position of going "hey fuckers, want Fox News? That's gonna be $3 a month" or "Hey fuckers, want Fox News? It's gonna be $10 a month bundled with a bunch of other bullshit you don't want."

DirecTV dropped OAN - granted that's a Murdoch property dropping a Murdoch competitor but still, there comes a time where shit just gets too toxic. Twitter is all-in on the idea that Tucker Carlson committed some sort of super-heinous sexual harassment which would explain the abruptness.

Bill O'Reilly basically ceased to have any power. So did Glenn Beck. So did Dan Rather. So did Keith Olbermann. Take away the podium and you're just a screaming guy in the corner. Who are they going to give it to? Hannity? Didn't he already have that slot? Jesse Watters? C'mon. Bret Baier? Bret's almost a journalist, if you squint at him just right. Fox News raison d'etre has been "pandering" not "owning the libs." I could see them splitting the difference and going with Laura Ingraham, who is awful.

But she's not nearly as awful as Tucker Carlson.