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The talk show host has decided, or was gently prodded to decide by his
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What's happened with and to him is what's
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King's exit also reflects the retooling at the cable news
One Tree Hill DVD, which has seen its ratings decline 30% or even 40% year-over-year depending on the metric, chunk of the day or demo one chooses. All of the network's primetime hosts, including
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One Tree Hill Box Set in her mike. King's performance this year averages 745,000 viewers, down 36% from 2009, and only 199,000 adults aged 25-54, off 38% from 2009.
Not that it was always so. Despite the twilight,
One Tree Hill DVD Season has broken a lot of records, seeming most proud of the Guinness Book record for longest-running talk show in the same slot on the same network: 25 years. CNN used to pivot around King, giving him enormous leeway in terms of the kind of show he would do and even building identical sets in
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As impressive as King's streak is, it just doesn't resonate with
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Thing is, those coming up are not at all
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Once the lone round-the-clock global news
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It was in a time of war that CNN
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Age, well, it does catch up with one -- Iraq,
CSI Las Vegas DVD and King included.
When clips of King in earlier decades are
CSI Las Vegas DVD Box Set, the hunch of the shoulders and the tilt of the body are more eager, the acid on the tongue a little sharper.
With the newsmakers of the day -- from
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Things weren't always overtly sexy or
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But it's been awhile since a guest chose "
looney tunes dvd" to do what Ross Perot did in 1992: declare his candidacy for the presidency.
There are just too
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