Not only are dictators resigning left to right in 2011, but also alot of TV anchors and Icons are leaving. in addition to Kieth Olbermann who left MSNBC on January 2011, Larry King who retired in Dec-2010 from LK live, and long time TV Icon Regis Philbin retiring "living with Regis and Kelly" this year, not to mention CNN firing Kathaleen Parker last month, and Rick Sanchez in December of 2010.
Glenn Beck, Katie Couric, Meredith and Matt are also reporting to be leaving their shows.
Fox Ends Glenn Beck Show
]NEW YORK — Glenn Beck later this year will end his Fox News Channel talk show, which has sunk in the ratings and has suffered from an advertiser boycott.
Fox and Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, said Wednesday they will stay in business creating other projects for Fox television and digital, starting with some documentaries Beck is preparing.
Beck was a quick burn on Fox News Channel. Almost immediately after joining the network in January 2009, he doubled the ratings at his afternoon time slot. Fans found his conservative populism entertaining, while Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert described Beck's "crank up the crazy and rip off the knob" moments.
More than 400 Fox advertisers told the company they did not want their commercials on Beck's show. Beck's advertisers were dominated by financial services firms, many touting gold as an investment.
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Meredith Vieira Leaving the Today show
TV Guide is reporting that Meredith Vieira is expected to leave her position as co-host of the 'Today' show when her contract is up later this year. She has been a co-host since 2006, when she replaced Katie Couric, Vieira, TV Guide's Stephen Batagglio reports, is tiring of the grinding, early-morning schedule for the show, and is concerned about her husband, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. He says that NBC is trying hard to get Vieira to stay. It would actually be the second contract renewal for Vieira; her previous contract was up last year, but she signed a one-year deal to extend it until at least September 2011.
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Katie Couric Leaving CBS News
NEW YORK — Katie Couric's successor as "CBS Evening News" anchor faces an extraordinarily difficult job in lifting the network out of the ratings cellar.
Couric will be leaving her post after nearly five years, with her contract expiring on June 4, according to a network executive who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Couric has not officially announced her plans. The 54-year-old anchor is expected to launch a syndicated talk show in 2012.
She took over a broadcast that had spent many years in third place behind NBC and ABC in the ratings, and leaves it in third place. The competitive danger for CBS is that the evening news becomes what the morning news has been for half a century: the third choice of viewers no matter what network chiefs try.
New CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager will choose Couric's successor, and will look both inside and outside the company. Many people at CBS News believe that Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" is the lead contender.
After months of reported tension CNN 'fires Kathleen Parker' as Eliot Spitzer gets his own show[/size
]By Daily Mail Reporter
Disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has come out on top in his battle with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker for control of CNN’s prime time air time, as it was announced today that Parker has departed from CNN’s Parker Spitzer.
Parker's exodus comes hours after a report in the New York Post that Spitzer was bragging to friends about how his co-anchor 'will be gone within a week.'
The show is being revamped as an ensemble programme with Spitzer being joined by Ed Hill, Will Cain and others. Hill and Cain are already regulars on the programme
Morning TV Icon Regis Philbin Announces Retirement in 2011
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This morning, morning television icon Regis Philbin, who has been the male anchor of ABC's Live! for nearly 25 years, announced that come the start of fall he would be retiring from his post. He did not specify a specific farewell date.
While he is most widely known for Live with Regis and Kelly (formerly Live with Regis and Kathy Lee), he has also famously hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Million Dollar Password, and the first season of America's Got Talent. He also holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera
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