Wednesday, June 30, 2010

CNN's Larry King Says He's Ending the Show After 25 Years

I wonder if Larry had a DUI in '71

 Larry King, who has interviewed statesmen and stars from a prime-time perch at CNN for 25 years but has seen his ratings sag recently, said Tuesday that he will step down this fall from his nightly show.
"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders," King said in a message sent to fans via Twitter.
King said he will do occasional specials for CNN. He reached his 25-year anniversary this month and takes pride in a Guinness Book of World Records citation for hosting the longest-running show on the same network in the same time slot.

The long-time radio host was a pioneer in cable television, his desk considered a valued spot to sit for anyone interested in talking to the nation. King's interview style was plain-spoken and critics would suggest occasionally ill-prepared, but he was good at making his guests feel comfortable and ready to talk.
As cable news audiences gravitated toward politically pointed shows and newsmakers found many more outlets for interviews, King slipped behind Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in the ratings. The 76-year-old broadcast veteran made people wonder if he was disconnected during interviews with the likes of Lady Gaga.
King said he felt no pressure from CNN to leave. He said he began thinking about stepping down as his 25th anniversary week ended, after he interviewed LeBron James, Bill Gates, Lady Gaga and President Barack Obama.
He's conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews during a 53-year broadcasting career.
CNN is in the midst of remaking its prime-time lineup, and last week announced that former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and conservative columnist Kathleen Parker would co-host an 8 p.m. EDT show on politics and current events.
CNN executives often have said that when "Larry King Live" ends, it won't necessarily be replaced by a similar show. Recent published reports have suggested that "America's Got Talent" judge Piers Morgan could be a candidate for a show in that time slot. CBS' Katie Couric has been considered a potential successor, although that talk has cooled lately.
King said if it was up to him, Ryan Seacrest would be the best choice to fill his shoes.

 The full text of Larry King's statement:
Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live.
Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall and CNN has graciously accepted, giving me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids' little league games.
I'll still be a part of the CNN family, hosting several Larry King specials on major national and international subjects.
I'm incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I'm looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.

86 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:40:00 PM

    Old Larry had a long and successful career,but I too think it's time for him to hang up his suspenders and enjoy life.
    It was time to cut off the fans and let old Larry fart all by himself.Hahaha
    PIC...I sent you an e-mail about our code on Starhooks...we got it sweetie and looks like over a 1,000...check it out. See ya...PIC

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  2. Anonymous9:44:00 PM

    Hi PIC...what ya doing, hope it's not as hot there as it is here.
    Dad is bugging me to make the his recipe...I'm going to hide from that old man.
    How's Nana...still mean ?
    How's Brian, I know he's in a good mood and will get his little pinch.

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  3. Hi PIC.Nice to see we have 1,000 visitors already

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  4. Anonymous9:52:00 PM

    HI cutie

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  5. Brian is okay. Nana was super mean today.It's relatively cool up here right now. I can't figure out how you guys can breathe in that hothouse down there.

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  6. I can't get into the stat counter. I can't figure out how.
    Your user name and password won't work for me, only for you.

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  7. Anonymous9:54:00 PM

    I think that's from last Friday,..I couldn't get the counter so Gil put it there for me...I should have asked him first, but the one here was easy, guess I forgot.

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  8. I will have to install my own stats counter if I want to backtrack our visitors.

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  9. Anonymous9:56:00 PM

    I just click the counter and when the page come up just put it in there. it should work.
    Can you get into this one??

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  10. Anonymous9:58:00 PM

    I never backtrack, I just look at the numbers. Shit I wouldn't know what I'm looking at.

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  11. Anonymous9:59:00 PM

    I don't care where they come from...just that they come [giggles]

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  12. I have tried your user name and password but that will only work from your email address. I have to have a separate password and user name. But to get that, I have to start my own stats counter.Yours does not allow for a partner at a different email address.

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  13. Anonymous10:02:00 PM

    Now you see why my A/C never gets cut off. I guess we are use to it .

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  14. looks like we'll have 70,000 in a couple of days.

    Old Larry had a funny mugshot. From the side he has no chin
    and that hair style (OMG).

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  15. Anonymous10:05:00 PM

    I didn't know that...we can see the numbers and thats what matters.I guess it's for security.Well you can see the numbers thats what matters.

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  16. I guess being married to Larry was pretty hard. No wonder she committed suicide or tried to. If her dad hadn't come in the room she'd be dead.

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  17. Anonymous10:06:00 PM

    Alex hit land in Texas about 9:pm tonite.

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  18. Anonymous10:07:00 PM

    Have you heard from the guys at the lake and how they're enjoying themselves??

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  19. Did you get all the paint off Gilly?What are those girls up to today?

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  20. Anonymous10:12:00 PM

    Did they check to see if one of Larry's farts had knocked her out?
    It's really sad what some women will do to keep from working.
    Do you think she was ever in Love with Larry or was it just for convenience?I think it was the last.

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  21. The guys are having a ball. They will be home tomorrow for Canada Day and fireworks.

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  22. Anonymous10:17:00 PM

    Yes, I soaked my little man , that boy love the water, He's rough , he likes to wrestle and Jill had something and ge said cookie and she put it in her mouth and boy he jumped her and tried to get in her mouth and Sha had to get him off her, then she threw him down and he yelled like a stuck pig.

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  23. Just look at Larry. Could you live with that man for ten years?
    No, I don't think it was love but even if it was for money, you can come to be very fond of someone when you live with them that long.

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  24. Gilly is going to be a tough customer when he grows up. Everyone will be scared of him.

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  25. Anonymous10:23:00 PM

    July 4 is Sunday and I know everyone will cook barbeque.I know we will start Saturday evening.
    Aunt Mae asked me what I was cooking andd I told her hog maw and chitteling and Nan said no she's not , she don't cook nothing she don't eat.

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  26. Sounds like the way to Gilly's heart is through his stomach.

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  27. Give him a cookie he will follow you anywhere.

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  28. Anonymous10:28:00 PM

    Shit...Jill started it, she would just grab and pull him everywhere, I gave her a beach towel to put him on so she wouldn't scrap the skin off him, that little monkey would just laugh. It really tickle me when I would be talking to you and he poop in his diaper and she drag him down the hall to his daddy and he would be just laughing. Gilly is a happy baby and a begger.

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  29. Anonymous10:31:00 PM

    No he will beg and whan he get it, he will find Jill/Sha/Dad and feed it to them.They eat out of his little nasty hands.

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  30. Gilly and Jill have a wonderful relationship in their own way.
    You'll have trouble letting this one go when it's time for school.

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  31. Anonymous10:37:00 PM

    I think I'm growing up, I'm happy being at home. All I want to do now is take care of my family and have meeting to raise money for my bears.
    Lois was showed me how much money we had for last month and how many members.
    67 members and $493.00 for June, I told her we would have a cake sale and some yard sales in July.

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  32. Can't find a lot to write about tonight. Not much in the news.I'll have to extend my search.

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  33. Anonymous10:41:00 PM

    I don''t know what I'm going to do,she starts 1st grade and I think I will have trouble for a while when she leave.
    We got another letter from the school board about her going into a higher grade, and Gil filed it away in his favorite spot for them(the trash can).

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  34. Anonymous10:44:00 PM

    Larry's wife had semi-amnesia from his farts...

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  35. I just put a youtube video up. Go and see it.

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  36. What is with Michael Douglas's wife. What a bitch. She must still be bitter.

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  37. Anonymous10:48:00 PM

    The damn celebs. isn't doing nothing bad, so this weekend I will practice trying something new like what Mike Wallace do in the Enquirer.
    Al Gore has his ass in hot water and Sly Stallone is talking with Jr.Gotti about a movie about Joh Gotti, one has been done abput John.

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  38. I love what you are doing for the bears. Money enables scientists to study them close up and find solutions.

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  39. HA!!!Those farts seem to have scrambled her brain some. She tried to kill herself. Maybe the farts drove her to it.

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  40. Anonymous10:52:00 PM

    Diandra is ex-wife and yes she's bitter, she was just a kid when he married her and I wonder how Zeta-Jones is taking this, you know she's kinda wild to but Zeta-Jones and Michael is cut from the same mold.

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  41. Of all the problems that would put you off sex with an old man, it would have to be farts and bad breath or maybe dentures.

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  42. Anonymous10:56:00 PM

    I've checked into a lot of places where they ask for money for the dogs/cats, etc and Nature Canada is the only place that you know what they are doing with the money, and it is a good cause, Lois gets videos to show and there are a lot of wet eyes in the room.

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  43. The marriage between Michael and Zeta-Jones is a perfect soul marriage. They will stay together till death I should think.

    The ex will get something just to shut her up. How can he blame the ex for what the son has done. He was the father and should have set a good example for him.

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  44. Michael lost a brother to drugs didn't he?

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  45. Did you see the video of Carlos Ponti?

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  46. MAke that Carlo Aponti

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  47. Anonymous11:02:00 PM

    [giggles]that leaves Gilly and dad out...Gilly did one hum-dinger, I told you abut that one and Dad wears half plates in the back, Jill wanted to give them to her baby for Xmas.hahaha

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  48. I'll find a longer video of Carlos. That one was kind of abbreviated. But it was funny because he was such a little soft spoken guy.

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  49. Anonymous11:04:00 PM

    Yes he lost a brother and no I haven't seen Carlos yet.

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  50. Anonymous11:08:00 PM

    I don't think she should get any money from his new movie.
    They had a nasty divorce and she got one of the largest settlement in Hollywood...she knew Michael was a bad boy and she wanted to change him, when will they ever learn, men have to change on their own.

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  51. There, I put a longer version of little Carlo. Boy I never saw those three judges give a standing ovation to anyone before

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  52. But you have to admit that michael was an asshole to her. He slept with anything that moved. He never went home and he was a drunk too. HE is lucky he idn't catch anything too bad.

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  53. Anonymous11:14:00 PM

    That's what I do before I log off is to see what you been up to.
    I'm learning how to get around a little faster now.

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  54. I am busy every minute.I am editing a post right now.

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  55. Lately, if I try to do too many things at once, I get a little confused. I guess I am having senior moments. I could always multi-task...at least 3/4 things at once.
    I am losing it honey.

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  56. Anonymous11:19:00 PM

    Yes Michael was a dog and needs his nuts cut off, but with all the money she got I would just let him take his ridiculous ass to hell, I think Zeta-Jones will show him a thing or two if he slips back into his old ways.

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  57. Anonymous11:19:00 PM

    Mike from NASA is on Dave.

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  58. Anonymous11:23:00 PM

    I'm learning slowly but surely.I'm going to try the new editor out this weekend.
    The articles are o short I can put a bunch in at once.

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  59. I always loved biscotti. It is one of the things I miss now. I can't have any wheat flour or sugar or dairy. So that pretty much eliminates cookies and cakes.

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  60. Anonymous11:25:00 PM

    Did you see where I asked Lina what kind of man she was looking for and she told me and I told her I had some good looking brothers?

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  61. Zeta-Jones will bite it off if he strays. She is Welsh and they have volatile tempers.

    Just like Whazzizzname who was married to Liz Taylor.

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  62. Anonymous11:28:00 PM

    Well I showed the bicotti recipe to dad and he says he was going to leave you a note, I will check and see if he did.

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  63. I've tuned in to Dave.

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  64. Anonymous11:31:00 PM

    Richard Burton and I loved the movie...Who's afriad of Virginia Wolf

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  65. Anonymous11:34:00 PM

    The guy is gone he was on about 10 minutes he's working on the space station.

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  66. Anonymous11:36:00 PM

    I forgot Dave was on, I listen at the news and he comes on afterwards and I didn't see the remote.

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  67. Lina had her own recipe for a perfect mate.

    What would yours be?

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  68. I would like an older man who loves me a lot. He doesn't have to be handsome but he should be strong looking and sexy looking.I love a sense of humor and I admire intelligence. I want him to respect my mind and be very kind.

    I think I have one already.

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  69. I'm watching Craig now.I like him,he has a dirty mind and he cusses. My kind of man.

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  70. Anonymous11:43:00 PM

    One that will love me as I am and we be equal partners.
    Now they are good at pretending to listen to what you have to say and when you ask them they say HUH .
    I demand respect but I don't want a yes man, I want one that will take charge and I will feel safe.
    But you can look to long for the perfect man and lose out altogether, because their is no such thing as a perfect person.

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  71. Boy you got that right honey. There is no perfect man or woman.You have to love them in spite of their annoying little pecadillos.

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  72. Anonymous11:46:00 PM

    I also have one and he far from being perfect, and he is an older man..
    He's my sugar daddy.[giggles]

    I'm watching Criag, I like him.

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  73. I was a little closer to physical perfection when I was young. Now things are starting to slip and slide.
    Mentally I am closer to perfection now and maybe spiritually but I will never really get there.Too bad we never get our shit together.

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  74. Anonymous11:50:00 PM

    Sweetie ...I think we both love their little annoying little habits.
    I also believe you can wait to long and miss out altogether.

    But like you, I do like older men, most are more settle and know what they want.

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  75. Anonymous11:53:00 PM

    Cutie...one thing for sure we wouldn't trade our lives or men for all the tea in china...they maybe older, but they are truly our soul mates.

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  76. Anonymous11:56:00 PM

    PIC...you didn't tell me what color your car is???
    Don't you just love having a sugar daddy????

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  77. My car is a sort of royal blue but I may change it for a silver one.
    I have it at home now but I think I liked the silver one better.

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  78. Anonymous12:02:00 AM

    Get the silverthey are mre cooler down here for hot weather.
    I bet it's a beau.

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  79. Mine is not exactly a sugar daddy but he can be really sweet at times.

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  80. I am going to do my rounds now sweetie and let old RP out. He is sniffing around my feet and pawing at my leg (Maxy not Brian)

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  81. Anonymous12:04:00 AM

    Now I don't know what I'm saying.
    Get the silver one, they are more cooler here in the hot weather, I like silver.

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  82. Did you see Craig's email come up?I'll try to get it next time. We should both send him an email and see if it gets on the show.

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  83. Anonymous12:06:00 AM

    Yes it's about that time.

    Goodnight sweetie and very pleasent dreams and may they all come true..
    Leave me a note where you will be.
    Goodnite ...HUGS & KISSES....PIC
    Kiss the Rock
    Nite.

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  84. Anonymous12:09:00 AM

    I may just start tweetering him , I will have to join tweeter, he has one.

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  85. Anonymous12:11:00 AM

    PS: Maxy not Brian..hahaha...if it was Brian you wouldn't tell it, you would just say see you later...hahahaha
    Nite ....PIC

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  86. I like to step outside into the summer night air for a few minutes .It is really nice outside at this time of night. I may get another telescope or borrow P's.

    So,Take it easy my friend.Sleep well and may all your troubles be tiny ones and your joys be enormous.See you when the sun goes down and the bats come out...luv PIC

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