Fox News has canceled “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” the program hosted by the longtime Trump ally who was recently named in a $2.7B lawsuit against Fox News, according to the LA Times.
Dobbs’ program airs twice nightly on the Fox Business Network. Friday will be its last broadcast. A Fox News representative confirmed the cancellation saying the program will be called “Fox Business Tonight,” and will have floating hosts until they decide on a permanent replacement.
Dobbs will stay under contract with the network but will reportedly not be back on the air. “As we said in October, Fox News Media regularly considers programming changes and plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate post-election, including on Fox Business,” a Fox representative said.
“This is part of those planned changes. A new 5 p.m. program will be announced in the near future.”
From The LA Times:
Dobbs, who was signed to Fox News by its former chief executive Roger Ailes in 2011, has long been the company’s most outspoken supporter of Trump’s economic and immigration policies.
In the weeks after the election, he expressed anger on his program that the Republican party did not do more to act on the former president’s claims that the election was rigged in favor of Biden.
Dobbs also gave free rein to Trump lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell to push conspiracy theories about the election that were either rejected or never presented in court. Giuliani and Powell also are defendants in the Smartmatic defamation suit.
On his Nov. 30 show, Dobbs told Powell he believed Trump needed to take “drastic action, dramatic action to make certain that the integrity of this election is understood or lack of it, the crimes that have been committed against him and the American people.
And if the Justice Department doesn’t want to do it, if the FBI cannot do it, then we have to find other resources within the federal government.”
CANCEL CULTURE hits Fox News!
@SteveBattaglio scoops — Dobbs, 75, remains under contract at Fox News, but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company’s networks again. https://t.co/rqh3iuZNSn
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) February 5, 2021
Fox News cancels longtime host Lou Dobbs' show – Los Angeles Times https://t.co/udGklqORzI
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) February 5, 2021
