CNN’s Larry King Exits After 25 Years
What a tenure! Two presidents, four television news anchors and a 10-year-old son who looked ready to take dad’s place behind the microphone turned out to bid Larry King farewell as he pulled the curtain down on his CNN talk show after 25 years. Whoa! 25 years!
King, 77, was serenaded by Tony Bennett singing “The Best is Yet to Come” via remote from Louisiana. King had announced this summer he would leave, ushered out by a struggling network. Once the dominant voice in cable television news, King has faded in a sea of sharp talkers. British talk-show host and “America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan takes over his time slot.
King has conducted some 50,000 interviews in a broadcasting career where he worked for decades in radio before joining CNN in 1985. He’s recorded more than 6,000 shows for CNN.
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