‘You’ve Been Canceled': Fox News Host Fired Seconds Before Show Started As Network Is In Shambles

Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Explain America. I'm your host Carmine Sabia

and we have another Fox News host who was fired unceremoniously speaking out

not only about their firing, but about the firing of Tucker Carlson and what's happening to Fox

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message out to more people. So Melissa Francis, you guys may remember her, she spoke to Megyn

Kelly and she was talking about the whole Fox News debacle. And in a previous interview

she actually got into how she was fired, which I'm going to explain to you after the jump

I want you to watch this video with her first, talking about the whole Fox News debacle with

Tucker Carlson. And then we're gonna get into, you know, how she was treated at Fox News

So again, you know, Fox News, this is not uncommon for them. They just fired Dan Bongino

they fired Tucker Carlson. We're hearing rumors that more names are on the chopping block. Some

of your favorites, some of our favorites, some of my favorites. And you know, things are just

getting ridiculous there. We don't know what's going on. It's like a whole new regime is taking

over and it feels like we might be losing Fox News. Let's take a look at this video clip

Now, Melissa, they're hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging viewers in the APM. I've never seen anything like

this. The audience is furious. I'll give you the numbers. Overall, Tuesday, last night, the overall

number, meaning all the audience, they went down from seven to eight. That never happens. Jesse

Waters had 1.8 million. Kilmeade, it's not about Kilmeade, it's about the fact that Tucker's not

there. Kilmeade pulled 1.7. So they went down. Tucker's previous Tuesday, 3.2 million. So they

went from 3.2 million on a Tuesday to 1.7 million without Tucker. In the key demo, which is the one

they really pay attention to, the previous Tuesday, Tucker got 481,000. On Tuesday, the APM got 149,000

They lost 340,000 in the key demo. CNN and MSNBC beat Fox's APM hour in the demo

as Oliver Darcy pointed out last night on CNN. These are the worst ratings that the channel has

had in that demo since pre-9-11, Melissa, since pre-9-11, 23 years ago. No, that's amazing. And

what they're going to try and do and the point that they would make is that, yes, that's just

the immediate aftermath and we are going to build those people back. Who knows? But I was laughing

when I read, I think it was in the Wall Street Journal in that article that clearly Irina Brugante

basically wrote herself, that they said that after Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly left, ratings were

fine, that they didn't suffer at all. That's not true. I was there. No, it was the same thing where

there was not quite as big of a dip, but there was a giant hole. They did manage to over time

build it back and Tucker was the only one who got it back to that level. And this is the thanks

he gets, but now they're acting like, oh, that was nothing. There was no damage done. We were fine

We stayed on. No, actually what they're really worried about is that exact damage. And that is

the motivation. That is why they want to ruin Tucker. That is why they want to trash anyone

who leaves. And that is why I believe they would leak that clip if it was them. And it sure feels

like it was that clip about Tucker insulting his audience that right now it's operation separate

Tucker from his audience. Don't let him take that audience to another platform, to anywhere else

Mission number one, make sure you separate him from that audience because obviously they're gone

from Fox for now. And the only way to get them back is get them away from Tucker and draw them

back with something else. That's what they're doing. Because they're worried not only that

Tucker will go independent and pull audience. I mean, if I were Tucker, I'd go independent. Maybe

I'd release my show every night at 8 p.m. Maybe I'd do it live on Rumble or whatever at 8 p.m

every night. I think he actually has a shot of beating the existing Fox News 8 p.m. slot. But

what if he went to Newsmax? I haven't really seriously talked about them because let's face

it, they don't have anywhere near the market power as Fox and they're not even in as many homes. I

think they're 20 million homes short of what Fox is even in. But what if Tucker actually went to 8

p.m. on Newsmax? Our friend Eric Bolling is there now, who we both love. But I'm just saying, what

if he did move to 8 and let's say Eric moved to 9? Just this past week during the 8 p.m. hour

Eric Bolling averaged 562,000 viewers. Last Tuesday, he averaged 122,000. So the Fox News

audience is going click and moving over to Newsmax right now. Imagine if it were Tucker in that spot

Absolutely. I mean, obviously that's what they're worried about. But I think that the larger point

and what I would say to Tucker is a conversation that you and I have had many times, which is that

this is how our business works. This is always going to be probably how our business works

When you leave, they try to destroy you. When you're riding high, they try to undermine you

so they don't have to pay you as much. I mean, I think it's the reason I started my own production

company. I have a docuseries that I've already sold. We are getting ready to put into production

You will be seeing it on one of the biggest streamers out there. You will be seeing it. I'll

just say, let me just tell you, you will be seeing it everywhere. I'm not saying this because Melissa is my friend. I have seen, I know what it's about. We're not at liberty to reveal. I've seen it sizzle

Everybody everywhere is going to be talking about it. Cut the clip. We'll play it again

Everybody everywhere. Sorry, keep going. Yeah. Well, thank you. I appreciate that. But

I think what you and I talked about when you left and then subsequently when I left is that

I don't see our business changing. I don't see it's this complete ruthlessness. I mean

it's what makes the show Succession so interesting. It's this complete ruthlessness

that exists in especially our industry, probably others. I don't know. I'm not sure if it's really

this ugly, but there's so much at stake in entertainment. And they also have the luxury

of there's so many people that want to fill our jobs. You're never going to talk people out of

wanting to be anchors. There's no danger that people will stop volunteering for that job

knowing that they're going to have their throat slit on the other side. They don't care. They want to be on television. So I think you and I have talked about the fact that you can just never go

to work for anyone else again. And I actually think that's what Tucker is realizing

Now, when Melissa Francis was fired, she was getting ready. Her show was being done in her

home because of the pandemic. And her teleprompter comes on, her producers are ready to go, the

lights are on, the show is being handled remotely. And a message comes on the teleprompter that her

show has been canceled. Just like that. No phone call, no letter, no meeting on the teleprompter

your show has been canceled. How rude, how despicable is that? And again, you've seen how

Fox News has been treating their staff lately. They're the people that are making them the money

And it just seems like this is not the right way to handle business as far as I'm concerned. That's

not how you handle people. It's unfortunate that Fox News chose this route, but their ratings right

now are cratering. And it shows they are losing a lot of money because they thought they could just

go ahead and, oh, we'll just get rid of Tucker Carlson and replace him with somebody else. It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. It's not your network that's drawing the

viewers. It's the talent that's drawing the viewers. And they need to learn that and they

need to respect it. They've already jumped the shark with Tucker, and I fear it could be the

end of Fox News. And that's why independent media like ours is so important. Because our boss is

you. We answer to you. Folks, again, I'm Carmine Sabia. This is Explain America. Please make sure

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