{"id":2221675,"date":"2024-04-15T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-axes-charles-barkley-gayle-king-show\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:26:37","slug":"cnn-axes-charles-barkley-gayle-king-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-axes-charles-barkley-gayle-king-show\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN cancels Charles Barkley and Gayle King program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-axes-charles-barkley-gayle-king-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN\u2062 canceled the &#8220;King Charles&#8221; show hosted by Charles Barkley and Gayle King after early disappointments in ratings. Despite efforts \u2062to appeal to a diverse\u2063 audience, \u200bthe\u2064 show failed\u200c to gain traction, leading to its cancellation. Barkley&#8217;s busy\u200b schedule and competing TV commitments may have contributed to its struggles, overshadowed by more popular cable news programs. CNN ended\u2062 the &#8220;King Charles&#8221; show with hosts Charles Barkley and Gayle\u200b King due to poor initial ratings. Despite\u2063 attempts to attract a diverse viewership, the show didn&#8217;t succeed, \u2064possibly due \u2064to Barkley&#8217;s tight schedule and other TV commitments. It couldn&#8217;t compete with more \u200dpopular cable news shows, resulting in its cancellation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN axed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/charles-barkley-rips-san-francisco-during-live-nba-all-star-broadcast-you-cant-even-walk-around-down-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Barkley<\/a> and Gayle King primetime talk show after only six months on the air after it failed to generate ratings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cKing Charles\u201d show \u2014 co-hosted by sports commentator Barkley and \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d host King \u2014 aired on Wednesday nights and generated worse ratings than reruns of shows like \u201cSouth Park\u201d and \u201cFriends,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/15\/media\/cnn-axes-charles-barkley-and-gayle-kings-weekly-show-king-charles\/?utm_campaign=nypost&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The show launched in November and became the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lowest-rated primetime week night show CNN has debuted in at least a decade, according to Nielsen ratings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Viewership fell 20% from the debut episode of \u201cKing Charles\u201d in November, which was watched by 500,000 viewers, with 139,000 of those in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-scandal-plagued-chris-cuomo-hits-record-low-ratings\/\" title=\"Nolte: Scandal-Plagued Chris Cuomo Hits Record-Low Ratings\">coveted age demographic<\/a> of ages 25-54, according to Nielsen. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end of January, those numbers didn\u2019t even crack 100,000 mark among that same demographic, Nielsen showed. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Over the show\u2019s 14 episodes, it had an average of 459,000 total viewers, with an average of 106,000 in the advertising demographic of ages 25-54.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It came in third behind Fox News\u2019 \u201cGutfeld\u201d and MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell.\u201d The Greg Gutfeld-lead show averages 2.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-beats-cnn-msnbc-combined-for-10th-straight-month\/\" title=\"Fox News Beats CNN &#038; MSNBC Combined For 10th Straight Month\">2 million total viewers<\/a> with more than 300,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demo, the highest of all three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-left-wing-media-promoted-a-baseless-covid-conspiracy-theory\/\" title=\"How The Left-Wing Media Promoted A Baseless COVID Conspiracy Theory\">cable news outlets<\/a>, according to Nielsen. While over on MSNBC, O\u2019Donnell scores an average of 1.5 million total viewers and 142,000 in the highly desired age demographic.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">CNN axes Charles Barkley and Gayle King\u2019s weekly show \u2018King Charles\u2019 after 6 months <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yD1j7EW7mf\">https:\/\/t.co\/yD1j7EW7mf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7ua9oUGEa\">pic.twitter.com\/U7ua9oUGEa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1779864351488245946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An industry insider attributed part of the problem to the NBA Hall of Famer\u2019s rigorous schedule, as he was still a co-host on TNT\u2019s \u201cInside the NBA\u201d and was only available on Wednesdays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, a CNN spokesperson touted the show, stating that it was \u201ca great addition to CNN\u2019s lineup,\u201d noting the shows diversity pull with 44% non-white \u2014 the most diverse viewership among the network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-draws-almost-three-times-as-many-viewers-as-cnn\/\" title=\"Fox News Draws Almost Three-Times As Many Viewers As CNN\">prime time shows<\/a>, according to Nielsen figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The spokesperson also said that the viewership was among \u201cthe youngest, most affluent, and most diverse\u201d audience in all of cable in the 10 p.m. time slot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cKing Charles\u201d was created by fired former CNN boss <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ceo-chris-licht-out-at-cnn-after-tumultuous-year-controversial-trump-town-hall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chris Licht<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, whose tenure at the network ended after <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic published a 15,000-word profile titled \u201cInside the Meltdown at CNN,\u201d a piece that reportedly enraged executives at Warner Bros. Discovery, as previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ceo-chris-licht-out-at-cnn-after-tumultuous-year-controversial-trump-town-hall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last June, Licht announced he was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/07\/cnn-ceo-chris-licht-out-after-trump-town-hall-atlantic-article.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">leaving<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the media company \u2014 just 16 months after being picked for the position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His tenure at CNN was rough from the start. Weeks after the former CEO took over the reins, the cable news giant\u2019s attempt at launching a streaming service <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">failed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  after just a month in operation, attracting fewer than 10,000 daily users. The CNN executive also faced criticism from his employees and poor ratings performances in the news channel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-calls-on-big-tech-to-censor-joe-rogan\/\" title=\"Biden Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Calls on Big Tech to Censor Joe Rogan\">primetime slots<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zach Jewell contributed to this piece.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ceo-chris-licht-out-at-cnn-after-tumultuous-year-controversial-trump-town-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN Boss Out After Damning Atlantic Profile, Trump Town Hall\u00a0Disaster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN recently terminated the primetime talk show hosted by Charles Barkley and Gayle King due to poor ratings. The show, called &#8220;King Charles,&#8221; failed to outperform reruns of programs like &#8220;South Park,&#8221; despite being on air for only six months on Wednesday nights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2221676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Gayle-King-Charles-Barkley.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2221675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/Gayle-King-Charles-Barkley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}