Tucker Carlson Launches Conservative Streaming Service From FL

TAMPA, FL — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is launching a new conservative streaming video subscription service out of Tampa, according to a news release.

Carlson has teamed up with Neil Patel and Justin Wells to launch the Tucker Carlson Network online at TuckerCarlson.com. Patel serves as the company’s CEO, running business operations, while Wells is president, overseeing all programming and content.

The right-wing media personality is hosting multiple new shows through the network, including long-form interviews, commentaries, news reporting and in-depth investigations.

"News coverage in the West has become a tool of repression. Reporters no longer reveal essential information to the public; they work to hide it. We plan to tell the truth about things that matter – clearly and without fear,” Carlson said in the news release.

His new network offers both free ad-supported and paid premium video content. Subscribers can pay either $9 monthly or $72 annually to access exclusive content. His non-subscriber video content will continue to be available on X, formerly Twitter, and audio versions of that content will be available as a podcast called “The Tucker Carlson Podcast.”

He announced the streaming service on "The Megyn Kelly Show," a podcast and radio show hosted by another former Fox News host, Kelly, who is now an independent commentator.

Carlson was abruptly fired from Fox News in April after a racist text message he sent came to light during a defamation lawsuit over false election claims filed by Dominion Voting Systems against the news outlet. Fox ultimately settled with DVS, agreeing to pay $787.5 million.

During the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, during which President Donald Trump supporters stormed the building, Carlson texted a Fox News producer that he was rooting for members of the mob to kill a member of Antifa, according to CNN.

“A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington,” Carlson wrote in the text. “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living (expletive) out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it.”

Fox News said it “agreed to part ways” with Carlson not long after the text messages came to light, according to Vox.

Carlson said of his new show, “I’m going to do it without interference, period. I’m going to tell the unadorned truth — I hope gently and in the least offensive way as I possibly can. But I’m going to tell the truth until the day I die.”

"Tucker has maintained an important connection with the audience on X. We look forward to continuing that relationship but also providing people with even more video content through Tucker Carlson Network,” Wells said.

Carlson owns a home in Florida, a 2,812-square-foot estate on Boca Grande in Lee County, which he bought in August 2022 for $5.5 million, the News-Press reported.

This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.