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• You people that laugh and joke about Tucker leaving, none of this is fun.
• We have had many many producers and on air hosts leave us.
• It isn’t easy or fun for any business to replace someone.
• We’ve done it and it takes WEEKS sometimes months to replace an on air talent.
• There honestly isn’t much of a bench.
• From the WH Press Briefing room Jen Psaki asked for Tucker to be fired.
• From the House Speaker Chuck Schumer singled Tucker out and said Rupert needed ‘do the right thing’ with regards to Tucker Carlson.
• Should the FCC come by your radio station – 
• 1. Who is your current board operator do they have a current FCC class operators license? 
• 2. You keep a copy of anyone that puts hands on the board.
• 3. They will ask to see your logs on what commercials you play the duration and the times they are aired.
• We are no fan of the FCC but they do make sure if you are awarded an AM or FM broadcasting antenna, they require you to do a coverage map. 
• Once that coverage map is filed that is what it is, they won’t let anyone else open a radio station in YOUR coverage area.
• The FCC does NOT get involved in on air talent!

HEADLINE: Tucker Carlson Fired By Lachlan Murdoch; Here’s What We Know via ZeroHedge 

• When you work in this business, you kinda’ know or you plan that every single day could be your last on air w/ that company.
• It is a hostile market.
• The HighWire didn’t start its own network, it is really hard to do!
• QUESTION: Why do I say CNN would be a good landing place for him?
• QUESTION: How did CNN get it’s foothold? 
• NBC paid $15 million for having Megan Kelly for 6 weeks.
• QUESTION: Where does all of this leave cable news? Where are those eyeballs going?
• When everyone is a Tucker Carlson, no one is a Tucker Carlson.
• So what was Tucker’s demise? 

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