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NEW YORK – MSNBC (search) announced Wednesday it has hired the bow-tied conservative commentator Tucker Carlson (search) to be host of his own prime-time show, starting sometime this spring.
Carlson’s hiring will fill a slot left vacant when Deborah Norville (search) decided to stop doing her 9 p.m. EST program. The move was widely expected since CNN decided a month ago not to offer Carlson another contract and to discontinue the political debate show “Crossfire.” (search)
“Tucker Carlson Unfiltered.”
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MSNBC President Rick Kaplan
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Kaplan and Carlson worked together at CNN during the late 1990s.
MSNBC offered no details about Carlson’s new show, or even a title.