Jesse Watters replaces Tucker Carlson's 8 pm primetime broadcast slot | World News

Fox News introduced on Monday that Jesse Watters will take over Tucker Carlson’s 8 pm weekday slot with the identify ‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ broadcast. This comes after Tucker’s departure in April. The shift will now transfer Laura Ingraham’s The Ingraham Angle from its 10 pm to 7 pm slot. 

‘Jesse Watters Primetime’ began final January. As per the web site, Jesse, a 44-year-old Philadelphia native, speaks with newsmakers and politicians with a “recent take.” 

Tucker left Fox News in April, with the community saying in an announcement, “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to half methods. We thank him for his service to the community as a bunch and previous to that as a contributor.”

Who's Jesse Watters?

Jesse joined Fox News in 2002 as a manufacturing assistant. He was named a solo host of the 8 PM/ET Saturday night time present ‘Watters’ World’ in January 2017. He carried out fashionable interviews with former President Donald Trump, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Barstool Sports activities’ Dave Portnoy, amongst others. 

Jesse was later named a co-host of ‘The 5’ in April of 2017. “Co-hosted by Watters alongside Greg Gutfeld, Dana Perino, Choose Jeanine Pirro and a rotation of Harold Ford, Geraldo Rivera and Jessica Tarlov within the liberal seat, The 5’s powerhouse roundtable ensemble has emerged as early night appointment tv for thousands and thousands because the primary present at 5 PM/ET for the final decade. Watters is broadly identified for his "Mother Texts" section which showcases colourful messages that his liberal mom has fired off to him whereas he’s on the air,” Fox News’ web site says.

“Within the 4th Quarter of 2021, The 5 was the primary program in cable information with 3.3 million complete viewers and second total within the 25-54 demo with 481,000 — the primary time ever in cable information historical past that a non-primetime program achieved this milestone for a full quarter. The 5 had already set a document in October of 2021 successful the total month for the primary time ever with 3.1 million complete viewers and putting second in the important thing demo for the month averaging 435,000 in 25-54. The hit present additionally topped all daytime and primetime programming on CNN and MSNBC for all the 12 months of 2021, delivering the second largest viewers in cable information with 3 million complete viewers and 423,000 within the 25-54 demo, making it the one non-primetime present to rank within the prime 5 and notching its second highest rating in program historical past,” it provides.

Jesse, a graduate of Trinity Faculty with a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Historical past, has authored the New York Instances primary bestseller ‘How I Saved the World.’ The e book was additionally primary on Amazon within the week it was launched.