(Variety) Tucker Carlson is asking fans to fork over $72 for a charter one-year subscription to his new streaming video service — which his site says is “days away” from launching.
Carlson officially announced the direct-to-consumer service, at tuckercarlson.com, in a post Saturday on X (formerly Twitter). After he was fired in April 2023 from Fox News Channel, where he had been a fixture for more than a decade, Carlson has been producing a right-wing talk show distributed on Elon Musk’s X.
“Hey, it’s Tucker Carlson! We’ve been out of work for seven or eight months now. Hard to know, time flies when you’re unemployed,” Carlson says in a video clip promoting his new streaming site. “But actually, we’ve been working in secret and producing an awful lot of material for months now — interviews, et cetera — and all of it has now found its way to tuckercarlson.com. We’re launching a brand-new thing very soon.”
A message on Carlson’s site promises “founding members” access to “hours of exclusive members-only content hosted by Tucker Carlson”; a “bonus FREE month added to your subscription”; and the ability to purchase “limited-edition merchandise.” In addition, those who sign up for the “limited time” price of $72 per year (which works out to $6 per month) will be able to “Tell all your friends you were among the first to join Tucker’s new network,” the site says.
For U.S. subscribers, the site also is offering the option to purchase the “official 2023 Tucker Carlson Christmas ornament” for $25 — sight unseen, as the design has not been revealed yet. The ornament is “handmade by the talented artists of Wendell August Forge, a one-hundred-year-old American company,” according to the site.
