The sudden departure of Tucker Carlson created more of a problem for Fox News than for Carlson. On the one hand, Fox’s ratings for their 8 p.m. time slot are down a cool 50 percent, meaning that Fox lost about 1.6 million viewers after forcing Carlson out of the company.
On the other hand, Carlson himself has been getting offers left and right. However, that aside, the biggest (and perhaps most serious) offer for Carlson came from Patrick Bet-David, the founder of Valuetainment. In a letter of intent that was posted online to their website this past Tuesday, Carlson was given the offer of $100 million over five years, an equity stake in Valuetainment, a position to become the president of the company, a seat on the board of directors, as well as leaving open other possible terms that Carlson might be interested in negotiating….