Anderson Cooper's talk show gets the axe
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show will be wrapping after two seasons.
Warner Bros. said Monday that the marketplace made it increasingly difficult for "Anderson Live" to "break through" to viewers despite format changes.
The show switched to live broadcasts in its second year but struggled to match the ratings performance of daytime frontrunners including "Ellen" and "Live! With Kelly and Michael."
Newcomers, including Katie Couric, also made the talk show arena more competitive.
In a statement, Cooper said he was grateful to Warner Bros.' Telepictures syndication arm for the opportunity and proud of his staff's work.
Warner Bros. says Cooper will continue with "Anderson Live" through summer 2013. He also remains the host of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
Warner Bros. said Monday that the marketplace made it increasingly difficult for "Anderson Live" to "break through" to viewers despite format changes.
The show switched to live broadcasts in its second year but struggled to match the ratings performance of daytime frontrunners including "Ellen" and "Live! With Kelly and Michael."
Newcomers, including Katie Couric, also made the talk show arena more competitive.
In a statement, Cooper said he was grateful to Warner Bros.' Telepictures syndication arm for the opportunity and proud of his staff's work.
Warner Bros. says Cooper will continue with "Anderson Live" through summer 2013. He also remains the host of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
His show was terrible. Â Why would anyone give him a show?
I surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Since he leans left I am surprised our tax dollars are not being used to subsidize another few years...
I'm sure he'll find a job. Being he is so left leaning and gay somebody would yell discrimination if he doesn't get another job.
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I know right, straight guys who lean to the right are woefully underemployed!
K2, using the word axe in place of ax shows that your writers are young and more intune with grooming products than using proper words. NO ONE uses the work axe for ax - especially in the NW. Please have better journalism standards.
 @wvboy Are you serious? maybe you should read your own comments before criticizing KATU?
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"work axe for ax"
"we use ax's in the woods"
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Granted, I think KATU employees use their kids to write/proof these somedays but that's a story for a different day.
I am not a professional journalist, or an organization passing itself off as one. That is the point of my comments.
@wvboy And YOU, by the same token, could type "in tune" as two words.
I've done that, too, corrected somebody's mistake and made one of my own in the process.
 @wvboy Merriam-Webster doesn't seem to care which one you use, and I was educated from age 10 in the Northwest and didn't blink an eye.  What we do learn here is to dislike pedantry. Â
Pedantry as with anything is a relative thing - to each thier own (level). I almost exclusively get picky with this type of journalists. I believe that more and more supposed "professional" news outlets are outsourcing to non-professionals. Where I come from - in the NW part of the state - we are most likely not as educated as you are. We like our words simple - like our people. Not many sesquipedalians out this way. And we use ax's in the woods.
 @Festivus I especially enjoy the word hoedad.
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 @Festivus  @wvboy did I just read that right?....lol
 @wvboy You use ax's what in the woods?
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This is the northwest. Â We're like the Inuit - we have 12 different words for ax(e).
@wvboy...it's KATU...not K2. Show a little respect, would ya.