Geraldo Rivera announces he quit Fox News after being kicked off show
Jenny Goldsberry
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Geraldo Rivera took to Twitter on Thursday to announce he quit Fox News after being fired from The Five.
“After 23 years tomorrow Fox and Friends could be my last appearance on the network,” Rivera captioned a video he posted on the platform. “Thanks for the memories.”
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Rivera was cruising in the water off Jones Beach, heading toward the World Trade Center, when he filmed the video. He claimed he was attempting to beat the holiday rush hour traffic in New York.
When the anchor previously announced his departure from The Five, where he was the left-leaning host after Juan Williams’s departure in 2021, he claimed he was still a “correspondent at large” for the channel. Jessica Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr. have continued to fill the slot.
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In the first quarter of 2023, The Five marked its sixth quarter in a row as the most-watched cable news program. During the quarter, it averaged nearly 3.26 million total viewers per episode. It has since maintained the title of the top cable news program across all categories for the eighth straight week as of last week, with 2,644,000 viewers. Some 268,000 viewers were within the desired 25-54 age demographic.
This comes roughly two months after the network fired prime-time host Tucker Carlson.