By Helen Coster

(Reuters) – Fox Information’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Programs over its protection of false vote-rigging claims within the 2020 U.S. election made headlines on Tuesday, besides on the cable channel itself, whose point out of it was considerably muted.

Hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who had been anticipated to testify within the Dominion trial, didn’t reference the settlement, the most important struck by an American media firm, throughout their primetime broadcasts on Tuesday evening.

Dominion had alleged that statements made on Carlson’s present after the 2020 election have been defamatory and that messages between Carlson and his staff have been proof he and his staff knew claims that Denver-based Dominion’s ballot-counting machines have been used to govern the election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden have been false.

Fox Information is owned by Fox Corp and is the most-watched U.S. cable information community.

Fox anchor Neil Cavuto broke into his headline information present “Your World” about 4:30 p.m. ET to report the settlement and skim an announcement by Fox by which it stated it was happy to have reached an settlement to avert a trial and acknowledged the decide’s ruling that the claims about Dominion have been false.

Howard Kurtz, the host of Fox Information’ MediaBuzz present, appeared on Cavuto’s present and through “Particular Report with Bret Baier.” On “Particular Report” Kurtz learn the Fox assertion, however didn’t embrace the greenback determine of the settlement.

In response to a Reuters request for remark about Fox’s protection of the settlement, a spokesperson shared the corporate’s assertion concerning the Dominion settlement that aired on Cavuto and Baier’s exhibits.