HOUSTON, goodbye! Larry King ending prime-time show

[MileHigh]

In the fall.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/06/larry-king-announces-he-is-ending-his-prime-time-cnn-show.html

 

[YankeeFan]

I noticed that you didn't post this on the journalism board.

Well done.

 

[sportsguydave]

Used to enjoy listening to his all-night Mutual radio show back in the mid-80s. Always loved hearing his gruff "Sir, have a good time" when the Stern asshats would get through. :)

He seemed to lose something in the transition to TV. And yeah, no way this belongs on the journalism board.

 

[DanOregon]

The show was better when it was based in DC.

CNN's best move would be to have Anderson Cooper take over the show and have someone else take over 360.

 

[2underpar]

his radio show was pretty good. I'm ready for him to be gone from TV.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Used to enjoy listening to his all-night Mutual radio show back in the mid-80s. Always loved hearing his gruff "Sir, have a good time" when the Stern asshats would get through. :)

He seemed to lose something in the transition to TV. And yeah, no way this belongs on the journalism board.

The same here. His late night shows on Mutual was a treat to listen to before I went to bed as a kid. Anytime he mentioned Duke Ziebart, I smile.

 

[Point of Order]

The show was better when it was based in DC.

CNN's best move would be to have Anderson Cooper take over the show and have someone else take over 360.

"That show" needs to die. Anderson Cooper would be miserable sitting behind a desk interviewing people and so would such a show. Anderson loves nothing more than wearing his black t-shirt on location down at the Gulf or in Haiti or wherever there is calamity in the world, and he's very good in those settings. He's okay when he's anchoring his show trying to grill people, but not as good as when on location. But please don't put him behind a desk interviewing people for an hour.

 

[redman biffle]

I knew it was time for him to go officially the other night when he interviewed Michael Jackson's brother in front of basically his grave plot. I know people get morbid when they get old but damn don't bring it on TV. Plus it seems like a lot of guests aren't interested in coming on his show anymore cause he kind of creeps them out. When Kathy Griffin and Penn Jillete are your regular guests, you know your show sucks.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I hope that young man enjoys his retirement.[/spnited]

 

[Point of Order]

When Kathy Griffin and Penn Jillete are your regular guests, you know your show sucks.

Very nice!

 

[MileHigh]

Why CNN is irrelevant and has been for ages: It had BREAKING NEWS on King's show tonight ... for him announcing he's giving up a show he should have given up during the Clinton-Dole campaign.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

wonder what it would take to get him back on radio, even if its just for an hour a week or something. I too loved that old Mutual radio show. "We're going to Duke Zeibert's tonight, where crab cakes are on the menu..."

 

[sportsguydave]

wonder what it would take to get him back on radio, even if its just for an hour a week or something. I too loved that old Mutual radio show. "We're going to Duke Zeibert's tonight, where crab cakes are on the menu..."

I know Jim Bohannon took over the radio show... is he still doing it? I still hear his "America in the Morning" hour here and there. I'm sure Gentleman Jim would let the old guy back into the chair once in awhile...

 

[exmediahack]

Count me in on the Mutual Radio Larry King show, with Jim Bohannon filling in.

As a teen in the mid-1980s, the one piece of radio machinery I did own was this high-end digital radio. Got it for Christmas one year.

Damn, I was in the Midwest and, on certain nights, could pick up Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs games from their cities. Got the Suns and Pistons on really clear nights. Cavs games were about 600 miles away but on that WWWE, they were crystal clear every night.

On non-NBA nights, I'd find Larry King and put the radio on 60 minute sleep. As I drifted off, as a 12- or 13-year-old, I learned so much about politics, music, literature, some sports. Actually made me pretty well rounded, looking back.

Also loved Costas Coast-to-Coast on Sunday nights.

 

[DanOregon]

Would King still have a radio show today even if he wanted to do it? I can't think of many stations that would air a show like his. Even Bohannon has positioned himself as a righty.
I'm lucky enough to live on the West Coast and can still listen to KGO out of San Francisco. Don't know how many talk stations that are left that air 24/7 live and local talent and have libertarians, conservatives, lefties and moderates in regular rotation.

 

[Tarheel316]

Does he have enough time left to break the record for the most marriages?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Also loved Costas Coast-to-Coast on Sunday nights.

Recorded live at Runyons. We had the same habits. Larry during the week, Bohannon on Saturdays going to bed and Costas on Sunday night. I've e-mailed Sirius about getting some of the old Larry Ling radio shows on its radio classics channel and only got a chain response.

 

[exmediahack]

Yup, live at Runyon's. for Costas Coast-to-Coast. That's where I'd learn more about Mickey Mantle or, even better, I still remember one show with Denny McLain after he had gotten out of prison.

Hearing that was a treat in 1987 or 1988, much like the NBC Game of the Week in baseball. Just a different time. Once ESPN got baseball in 1990, you could watch just about any team it seemed.

But I was never much of a "fall asleep to baseball type" but I liked zoning out to NBA play-by-play for whatever reason.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I noticed that you didn't post this on the journalism board.

Well done.

It belongs on a thread dedicated to softball pitchers.

 

[TheHacker]

I miss his late-night radio commercial reads:

"Friends, this is Larry King. After I had my 14th heart attack, I started using Garlique!"