Megyn Kelly mentioned she thought-about transferring to CNN from Fox Information after then-network boss Jeff Zucker made what she described as a “enormous provide.”
Kelly, who now hosts “The Megyn Kelly Present” podcast, mentioned she finally determined towards taking the provide as a result of she didn’t assume she would be capable of carry her Fox Information fan base over to the left-leaning community.
She made the remark throughout an interview on Friday with conservative commentator Buck Sexton. The interview was transcribed by the information web site Mediaite.
Kelly recalled that when she departed Fox Information in 2017, she significantly mulled leaping ship to rival CNN.
“I thought-about going to CNN,” in accordance with Kelly. “CNN made me an enormous provide. Big.”
Kelly as an alternative opted to signal on with NBC Information, the place she hosted a morning speak present that ended up getting canceled resulting from low rankings and controversy.
Kelly mentioned she selected to not go to CNN as a result of she didn’t assume she would have a sizeable viewers there.
“I mentioned no, Buck, as a result of I knew: Who's my fanbase going to be over there? I knew who my followers have been and I knew that my Fox viewers weren't going to comply with me to CNN and that the CNN viewers have been going to hate my guts,” she mentioned.
Kelly mentioned Chris Wallace, who departed Fox Information for a present on CNN+, the fledgling streaming service that has drawn only a few subscribers, is “affected by that very drawback proper now.”
She mentioned she was shocked that Wallace left Fox Information as a result of he managed to earn a considerable, multimillion-dollar annual wage regardless that “he was in final place [in the ratings] each week, yearly, each month.”
“He was all the time in final, they usually nonetheless paid him,” Kelly mentioned of Wallace and her former bosses at Fox Information.
Kelly additionally lambasted CNN executives for conceiving of the thought of CNN+ within the first place.
“Who's the moron at CNN who really thought, ‘ what we'd like with our rankings in the bathroom? Extra of us. We'd like extra CNN,’” Kelly mentioned.
Sexton echoed the sentiment, including: “I do love the entire jokes about how whereas Elon [Musk] is providing to purchase Twitter for tens of billions, there are many folks on the market proper now who're prepared to purchase CNN+ for tens of dollars.”
Zucker stepped down abruptly as president of CNN earlier this yr after revealing that he didn't disclose a years-long consensual relationship with a subordinate, Allison Gollust, who was his chief advertising officer.
Gollust resigned a short while afterward.
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