Larry King Stepping Down

Larry King Gets Ratings Boost For Finale

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday December 17, 2010 @ 2:12pm PSTTags: Barbara Steisand, Cable TV, Larry King, Larry King Departure, Larry King Final Show, Larry King Finale, Larry King Ratings, Larry King Stepping Down, TV

Larry King drew 2.24 million viewers for his send-off last night, posting a rare time slot victory for his departing primetime talk show. King barely edged the 9 PM’s dominant player, Fox News Channel’s Hannity (2.16 million) in total viewers, but Hannity prevailed in the adults 25-54 demographic (543,000 vs. 530,000 for King). MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow (874,000, 252,000 in 25-54) was third. King’s finale audiCNN Ratings, TV, Cable TVence more than tripled the 700,000 viewers he had been averaging this year. His ratings built throughout the final week with 458,000 total viewers on Monday, 587,000 on Tuesday and 935,000 for his penultimate episode featuring Barbra Streisand.

The End: Final ‘Larry King Live’ Airs Tonight

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 16, 2010 @ 12:29am PSTTags: Bill Maher, Larry King, Larry King Final Show, Larry King Live, Larry King Stepping Down, Larry King Video, Ryan Seacrest, TV

He may have gotten out of touch, he may have been famously unprepared for his interviews, and he may have been responsible for his show hemorrhaging viewers to average underwhelming 700,000 a night, but Larry King is still an institution. After more than 25 years and about 50,000 guests, the … Read More »

Larry King Heading Into Bagel Biz; Will He Have To Answer To Nate N’ Al?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 4:32pm PDTTags: Beverly Hills, Larry King, Larry King Stepping Down

SURPRISE! CNN Talking To Joy Behar About Replacing Larry King

larry-king When Larry King steps down from his CNN gig later this year, he’ll need something to fill his downtime. Bagels will play a role. Just before he announced his exit, King closed a deal to become a financial partner in The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company, a Florida-based enterprise that claims to have developed a water treatment technology that replicates the H2O from the New York borough that is the key to churning out bagels that taste like they were made in Brooklyn. (I’m not kidding). Read More »

SURPRISE! CNN Talking To Joy Behar About Replacing Larry King

By NIKKI FINKE AND NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 11:55am PDTTags: Anderson Cooper CNN, CNN, CNN Ratings, HLN, Joy Behar, Joy Behar The View, Katie Couric, Larry King, Larry King Live, Larry King Live Piers Morgan, Larry King Stepping Down, Replacing Larry King, Ryan Seacrest

TV Behar HLN Show A day after Larry King officially announced he will leave his CNN primetime talk show after 25 years, we hear the cable news network is in talks with Joy Behar to replace him. Behar has … Read More »

So Who’ll Succeed Larry King On CNN?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 12:09am PDTTags: American Idol Ryan Seacrest, Katie Couric, Larry King, Larry King Live, Larry King Live Piers Morgan, Larry King Ratings, Larry King Stepping Down, TV, Video

What a sad day for Larry King. First, the Q2 cable ratings were released in the early afternoon, with CNN posting another double-digit year-to-year drop led by Larry King Live, which drew a mere 677,000 viewers and posted CNN’s biggest year-to-year demo loss of -37%. A couple of hours later, … Read More »