Fox News has announced that long-time web property Jesse Watters volition regenerate ousted prima Tucker Carlson.
The departure of Carlson, the most-watched cablegram quality big successful US history, has led to a downturn successful the channel's primetime ratings.
Mr Watters, 44, joined the web arsenic a accumulation adjunct successful 2002 and has anchored the 19:00 EDT (23:00 GMT) timeslot since the commencement of this year.
Fox News said successful April that it was parting ways with Carlson.
The announcement came days aft the web settled a defamation suit from the voting instrumentality institution Dominion implicit sum of the 2020 statesmanlike election.
Carlson has since launched a caller amusement connected Twitter.
Watters' instalment successful Carlson's aged 20:00 timeslot comes amid a shake-up successful the channel's nightly line-up.
Laura Ingraham, who hosts The Ingraham Angle, is moving to the 19:00 hour, portion fashionable late-night big Greg Gutfeld volition instrumentality implicit astatine 22:00, the web announced connected Monday.
Sean Hannity, a primetime Fox anchor for much than 2 decades, volition spot his amusement stay successful the 21:00 slot, the web said.