“This evening we were made aware of Mr. Tucker Carlson’s appearance on Twitter in a video that lasted over 10 minutes,” Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar said in a letter to Carlson’s lawyers.
“Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Mr. Carlson’s ‘services shall be completely exclusive to Fox,'” it continued, quoting Carlson’s contract.
Gugar also said Carlson was “prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether ‘over the internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital distribution whether now known or hereafter devised.'”
Carlson’s legal team told Axios that any legal action by Fox would violate his First Amendment rights.
Carlson’s new show, “Tucker on Twitter,” garnered about 80 million views by 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The former Fox News host, in a roughly 10-minute video, posted Tuesday and captioned “Ep. 1,” claimed that Ukraine was to blame for the destruction of a massive dam in Russian-occupied territory that caused widespread flooding.
The one-time top-rated talk show host on U.S. cable television said he hoped Twitter would be the “short-wave radio under the blankets” with “no gatekeepers.”
Fox News Media and Carlson, then its top-rated host, “agreed to partways” in late April, less than a week after parent company Fox Corp. settled a defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million.
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