Fox News Media cancels Lou Dobbs's show

Source: The Hill | February 5, 2021 | Tal Axelrod

Fox News Media announced Friday that it has cancelled Lou Dobbs’s show on Fox Business, ending the highest-rated program on the business network.

Dobbs, a loyal ally of former President Trump who promoted theories about election fraud following his loss last year, hosted the evening show for a decade.

A Fox News Media spokesperson confirmed the cancellation of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to The Hill, saying it was part of programming changes that are “regularly” weighed.

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The announcement comes a day after Dobbs was named, along with other Fox hosts and pro-Trump attorneys, in a $2.7 billion lawsuit from voting technology company Smartmatic. The complaint specifically cited a groundless claim made on Dobbs’s show that Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan strongman who died in 2013, had a hand in tampering with Smartmatic devices to manipulate the vote in last year’s U.S. presidential election.

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Fox News has fallen behind CNN and MSNBC in cable ratings as it battles for an audience with other conservative outlets like Newsmax and One America News Network. Trump and other prominent Republicans began hammering Fox after it was the first cable outlet to call Arizona for now-President Biden in November.

While the projection was ultimately correct, Trump promoted Newsmax and OANN as alternatives to Fox over the perceived slight.

Fox is still holds a strong cable presence, and just marked 19 years as the ratings leader.

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