Bill Cunningham quitting daytime TV

[mvcg66b3r]

The CW will be down to just 10 hours a week after this:

He wasn't canceled, he quit. Or retired.

WLW-AM talk host Bill Cunningham told his radio audience Friday that he's ending his daytime CW TV network "Bill Cunningham Show" after five seasons.

"I just don't want to work this hard," said Cunningham, 68. "I told them (Tribune Broadcasting) last night I'm done. I'm done with television."

Tribune had offered a new contract to tape 400 TV shows over the next three years, through summer of 2019, he said.

When contemplating his future, Cunningham said that "I said I've got to do one or the other (TV or radio). I love radio. This is my life."

Although never a TV ratings hit in his hometown – averaging 0.4 rating point and 1% audience share at 3 p.m. on Channel 12.2 in household ratings– "Bill Cunningham" was very successful nationally. His show was No. 1 or No. 2 in the target demographic (ages 18-49) in his time period in many markets, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and New Orleans.

To do both daily TV and radio, Cunningham would fly to New York on Monday night; tape three TV shows a day Tuesday through Friday; tape or broadcast his afternoon radio show from an adjacent radio studio; and fly home Friday night. Last year he expanded his grueling schedule and taped two years of TV shows, so the entire 2015-16 TV season was finished before the season started last September.

http://wvxu.org/post/cunningham-quits-daytime-tv#stream/0

 

[seatownmedia]

The CW will be down to just 10 hours a week after this:




http://wvxu.org/post/cunningham-quits-daytime-tv#stream/0

Well, good riddance. I never cared for this guy, atleast from his on-air personna. His syndicated radio show was completely anti-Obama, but apparently didn't work. Then he moved to shock TV to try to be another Maury or Springer. Fail, despite how he spins it, IMO.

 

[crackedscreen]

The CW will be down to just 10 hours a week after this

15. They would still have Saturday mornings. Also, there's nothing about what they intend to do with the daytime block.

 

[nathannah]

No matter the politics or what I think of him (and I'm neutral on him either way), I can't say I blame him. According to another article in The Cincinnati Enquirer along with the original source, they taped an entire season in the swath of a short period of time before the season started, which is insane.

It also seems like Tribune purposefully laid a long-term contract on him to get him to end it, since the show was a legacy of the horrid Sam Zell era and it was the only TV production he ever got to stick nationally outside his bombed WGN America strategy (Zell wanted Cunningham for WGN but he refused and the TV talk show was the second idea). Finally it was completely unsupported by either The CW or Tribune; it'll end as the final daily show still carried in standard-def and they never changed the set at all. Once Connecticut pulls back the credits for Springer and Wilkos to tape at Stanford (and that'll be a while), the era of conflict talk will be over with a whimper.

 

[gr8oldies]

WGN's (radio) audience couldn't stand McConnell.......I can just imagine if they'd have gotten Cunningham too.

 

[Mr Tony]

. Also, there's nothing about what they intend to do with the daytime block.

give back to the affiliates that have CW to decide what to do with it
As for the affiliates of CW+ (which is in markets 100+ and is a 24/7 service already with syndicated fare) they'll just fill that hour with syndicated shows that they already carry

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Food Network's Robert Irvine is replacing Bill Cunningham this fall.

Robert Irvine to Launch Talk Show on CW Daytime Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)

Celebrity chef Robert Irvine is setting aside his pots and pans for his latest TV series, a “Dr. Phil”-esque talk show from Tribune Studios to air on CW stations.

“The Robert Irvine Show” will take the place of “The Bill Cunningham Show” in the 3 p.m. Monday-Friday slot on Tribune-owned stations and other CW affiliates starting in September. The series will feature Irvine — known for hosting Food Network’s “Restaurant: Impossible” and for his regular appearances on foodie TV shows — dishing up tough-love advice and conflict resolution options for everyday people facing a range of problems.

John Irwin (“Couples/Family Therapy”) is exec producing “Robert Irvine” with Irvine and Andrew Scher (“The Doctors”). The series will originate in Los Angeles.

Irvine has spent 25 years building his profile as a culinary star, and he’s also known as a fitness buff. But he’s sought to expand his TV menu with a non-food series for the past several years. The talk show had been in development at Tribune for some time.

When Cunningham decided to end his five-year run in syndication with Tribune, picking up the Irvine show was a natural choice, according to Sean Compton, president of strategic programming and acquisitions for Tribune Media. Tribune through its affiliation pact with the CW has the right to program the 3 p.m. hour for the network’s affiliate stations. Tribune may also try to expand the show’s distribution in first-run syndication outside of the CW footprint.

https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/robert-irvine-daytime-talk-show-cw-tribune-1201799041/