Disappointed with its ratings for its news program “American Morning,” CNN is replacing the anchor team of Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien and installing the newly hired Kieran Chetry and the former CBS News correspondent John Roberts, the network announced yesterday.In other CNN news, Larry King is still live. The New York Times reports that King wants to stay on the air 10 more years even if he gets Alzheimer's:
“What would it take to go?” he said, paraphrasing a visitor’s halting question as succinctly as he might on his own talk show. “If, God forbid, I had an onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s. That would be it. And what I would wish is that if I get that, no joke intended, that it happens on the air. Just to see how they handle it.”READ THE REST CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post hereThen, doing a caricature of his own much-imitated gravelly baritone, he imagined his next incarnation. “Live, from the nursing home in Livingston, here’s ‘Larry King,’ the only show hosted by a guy with Alzheimer’s,” he began, before posing his opening question: “Is it day or night?”
When his tenure does eventually end, Mr. King said his first choice to succeed him would be Ryan Seacrest, the “American Idol” host and disc jockey, presuming he is interested.
