Brett Arends’s ROI: What was Tucker Carlson worth to Fox News? Almost $600 million, according to Wall Street.

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What was Tucker Carlson worth to Fox News? According to Wall Street, $560 million.

Fox Corp.’s stock FOX FOXA swiftly plunged more than 5% on Monday when news broke that Carlson, Fox’s top prime-time host, had left the network. That initially wiped about $900 million off the company’s market value, combining its Class A and B shares. In trading Monday the Class B shares lost 3%%, equivalent to about $560 million of shareholder value.

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