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CNN Abruptly Cancels Anchor John King’s Program …But Why?

CNN Abruptly Cancels Anchor John Kings Program

Word has just been released that CNN is canceling its 6 p.m. news program “John King, USA.” Politico reports that the show’s host will now become the network’s national campaign correspondent.

Politico explains:

According to an internal memo circulated Wednesday obtained by POLITICO, Wolf Blitzer’s “Situation Room” will be expanded to a three-hour program, and begin airing from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. starting next month. King is expected to contribute to this program, as well as others, including “AC360.”

The network, which has been devastated with a dip in viewership in recent months, also announced other personnel decisions as part of its move to expand its coverage in Washington. Joe Johns has been assigned the CNN crime and justice correspondent, while senior producer Suzanne Kelly will take on the role of intelligence correspondent.

But King seems to be taking the change in his stride, at least that’s how it seemed on Twitter, where he tweeted the following in response:

CNN Abruptly Cancels Anchor John Kings Program

Comments (144)

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  • newcleardays
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:57pm

    I’ve never heard of John King before reading this article.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

      I’ve never heard of him either, but by the look of his jib I’d say he was let go so john Kerry can get his chin back.

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:10pm

      AND you never will again!!!

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    • BetterInformed
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:20pm

      He’s the debate moderator that Newt chewed-up.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Who ?

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    • WAKEUPUSA2012
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:43pm

      John King is married to the horse mouth Dana Bash who is scared of Ron Paul.

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    • Zeb
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:53pm

      Who’s john king?
      Amazingly simple remedies:
      1. Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold the vegetables while you chop.

      2. Avoid arguments with the females about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink

      3. For high blood pressure sufferers ~ simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes,

      thus reducing the pressure on your veins. Remember to use a timer..

      4. A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

      5. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you’ll be afraid to cough.

      6. You only need two tools in life – wd-40 and duct tape.

      If it doesn’t move and should, use the wd-40. If it shouldn’t move and does, use the duct tape.

      7. If you can’t fix it with a hammer, you’ve got an electrical problem.

      8. If all you have to watch is cnn, it is time to find the off switch.

      Daily thought:

      some people are like slinkies –

      not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:26pm

      http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/06/12/cable-news-ratings-for-monday-june-11-2012/137645/ becuase his numbers are HALF of AL SHARPTON… thats game over

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:02pm

      Do they think if we didn’t watch John King, that we’ll watch the likes of Wolf Blitzer?
      Common Sense is all I want, not died in the wool Libs.

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:14pm

      @ ZEB

      Thanks! I’m still laughing…..

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:22pm

      To the CNN idiots : If you actually did the news you might have viewers

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    • Blazebanned
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:54pm

      Who, and what news station? Seriously Blaze, we care because?

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:03pm

      He looks like Anderson Coopers stunt double!

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    • smokeysmoke
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:38pm

      CNN is the perfect example of the employer who has a failing buisness plan, but along the way takes out problems on its workers like it is their fault the channel is failing… its your socialist messaging that if fallinng flat…

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    • Quack Addict
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:32pm

      If they could only cancel Early Start and Solodad O‘Brien’s show that would be great.

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    • ginger3350
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:55pm

      He is so annoying with his throat clearing and “uh-humm” after every word that the Republican candidates would utter in the debates that he unfortunately moderated. You tube it and see how annoying he was! He made the debates, intentional or not, terrible to watch while he was moderating.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:10am

      @Zeb

      Okay, it’s not a remedy, but more “simple life advice” – If you light a fire for a man, he’ll stay warm for a day. If you light a man on fire, he’ll stay warm for the rest of his life.

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    • Elisa Lenz
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:09pm

      Hilarious!

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:09pm

      At least he wasn’t as biased as Bill O.

      Not everybody that went on John Kings show were pinheads simply for having a different oppinion.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:39pm

      He and Anderson Cooper could pass for brothers.

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:56pm

    Perhaps they should try a prime time lineup with paternity testing and polygraphs, that always seems to appeal to their crowd.

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  • friedwatermellon
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:55pm

    CNN If you want your ratings to increase get rid of King and Blitzer all together and some of your Affirmative Action commenters

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    • gofer
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:19pm

      They just don’t seem to get it. People are sick of their leftist cheering. If they tried to be a little more balanced and just report the news and stop AVOIDING reporting on anything negative about obama. You can’t tick off half the country and expect your ratings to increase. People on the right just want to hear news, not constant flow of leftist slanted reporting.

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    • DetritusScreener
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:25pm

      I think they need more Affirmative Action commentators. Then they could give Comedy Central a run for their money.

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  • sbenard
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:52pm

    From the first full-time propaganda network. They have made themselves irrelevant!!

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  • MarkWheeler
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:49pm

    John King you are a HACK for BO. I watch you sometimes to see you cut off the conservative point of view. Over and over you cut them off. Your wife doesn’t have a clue and neither does your senior political correspondent. You are all in the bag for the Democratic Party! This is a primary reason America will throw all the Hacks out of office beginning with our Clown in Chief wanabe Obama! ” Me, I. MY Administration, I ordered, I did It Me, Me, Me. I,I,I”

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    • Simonne
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:30pm

      I read a couple of months ago that John & his wife split. Although I don’t watch CNN much, I did watch CNN on primary nights & liked his coverage more than Fox.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:48pm

    When does CNN starting selling cheap jewelry?

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    • nappy
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:11pm

      When their female anchors return it to the network after they are fired.

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  • Deibido
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:43pm

    CNN could line-up every corpse of a talent past and present ever on the airwaves of CNN and they would still be experiencing rating drops. Three hours of the “Wolfe-man” is all we need. He fits somewhere below live feeds of birthing camels and ghost-stories. CNN needs a simple thing. It is called a mirror… I’m sorry, John who?

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  • rsanchez1
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:42pm

    Yeah, they’re suffering from loss of viewership, and what do they do? Give Wolf Blitzer three hours of television! They’re asking to lose viewers.

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    • Mike N
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:54pm

      CNN isn‘t smart enough to know that they’re mainlining instead of mainstreaming. That network will be dead soon enough, just not soon enough for me.

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:41pm

    Actually, what they are not saying, is that he was losing advertisers by the hundreds, and the show was just not profitable for the network.

    That’s capitalism folks.

    Right JZS?

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  • noleftturn
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:40pm

    … rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!

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  • tweetybird
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:39pm

    John King sucks. Who cares.

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  • Epic Fail
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:38pm

    He was not liberal enough. You have to be a left wing lunatic to be on CNN. Just look at Ed.

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  • BoliverBBucklenutz
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:36pm

    I remember in the early 90′s there was a station with the same “CNN” name that was balanced and told both sides of the story … what ever happened to those guys?

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:57pm

      Your memory is flawed….they’ve always been this way….they’ve never been fair and balanced. You’re just noticing it now because FOX News is available.

      disenlightened  
    • NoVampires
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 4:17pm

      I responded to a post and reported it accidently. Sorry. I meant to respond to Boliver by saying that I’m inclined to agree with him. As things became more partisan, CNN chose the dark side and here they are, on the brink of extintion. Fox simply openned up options for viewers not interested in teh democrat/liberal/nowmarxist spin of things.

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  • phrogdriver
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:35pm

    John who?

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  • GeorgieJo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:34pm

    THREE HOURS of WOLFY?
    Oh my goodness—-the ratings just DECREASED MORE.
    OMG 2012

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:15pm

      I thought WOLFY was killed in Desert Storm!!

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  • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:32pm

    Sometimes you just should throw your hands up and say……I’m done! hmmmm, but I’m sure Obama would bail out CNN…….I’m positive he would…………

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  • mikeofthesand
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:31pm

    CNN – Communist News Network. All propaganda all the time.

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  • KeithOlberdink
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:28pm

    Yea, that will solve the problems CNN. What is the definition of insanity again?

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  • neiman1
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:28pm

    Now they can expand Piers Morgan to 3 hours and totally destroy their network. How about expanding Zakari. He drives people away in droves

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  • toledofan
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Who cares.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:26pm

    What station? CNN, what’s that? What does CNN stand for, Conservatives no Nothing???

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  • thibx
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:25pm

    the network was somewhat good when it first started. can’t stand to watch it now.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:25pm

    Looks like liberal news is as unsuccessful as liberal talk radio.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:24pm

    WHO is John King? Can you show a picture? I have no context, as I am not one of their 15 viewers.

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  • cristo52
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:23pm

    Wow, 3 hours of Wolf Blitzer, just imagine how CNN ratings will soar!

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