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Fox News Chairman-CEO Roger Ailes said Wednesday that “disappointingly low ratings” ended Gretchen Carlson’s tenure at Fox News Channel, not retribution for spurned sexual advances as she alleged in a lawsuit.

But Nielsen live-plus-same-day data shows steady if unspectacular growth for the show, and better numbers than any of its rivals on other news networks.

In the second quarter of this year, for example, Ms. Carlson’s 2 p.m. program averaged 1.15 million viewers and 183,000 members of the all-important news demographic of 25-to-54-year-olds, which works out to a 0.15 rating. Her deliveries in the demo improved on her year-earlier performance, rising 16% from the second quarter of 2015 to average 157,000 adults 25 to 54.

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