Larry King, CNN Officially Split

Larry King and CNN are officially parting ways. The network announced on Wednesday that it has decided to end the "Larry King Specials." King said he will now focus on other projects.

King, who is 78 years old, ended his 25-year role at the network as the host of prime time show "Larry King Live" in December 2010. CNN and King agreed that the famed interviewer would host four specials a year for CNN.

His specials thus far have focused on topics ranging from Alzheimer's to an exclusive interview with Johnny Depp. His most recent special, "A Larry King Special: Dinner With the Kings," aired in December. King's last special made headlines as the broadcaster revealed that he would like to be frozen after his death.

According to the Los Angeles Times, King's staff of four will likely be let go but may have the opportunity to reapply for new jobs at the network.

King's show was replaced with "Piers Morgan Tonight," an interview show hosted by British media personality, Piers Morgan.

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View CNN's new line up below:

• 5-7 AM: Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin

  Banfield (shown here) and Sambolin are set to host a new morning show starting in early 2012).

• Zoraida Sambolin

  Sambolin has been a host for a local Chicago station.

• 7AM-9AM: Soledad O'Brien

  O'Brien is slated to start her new morning show in early 2012.

• 9AM-11AM -- CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips

• 11AM-1PM -- CNN Newsroom with Suzanne Malveaux

• 1 PM- 2 PM: Randi Kaye

• 2PM-4PM -- CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin

• 4PM-6PM -- The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

• 6PM-7PM -- John King USA

• 7PM-8PM -- Erin Burnett

• 8PM-9PM -- Anderson Cooper

• 9PM-10PM -- Piers Morgan Tonight

• 10PM-11PM -- Anderson Cooper (Repeat)

• 6AM-7:30AM -- CNN Saturday Morning (Formerly with T.J. Holmes)

• 7:30AM-8:00AM -- Sanjay Gupta MD

• 8AM-9AM -- CNN Saturday Morning (Formerly with T.J. Holmes)

• 9:30AM-10AM -- Your Bottom Line with Christine Romans

• 10AM-1PM -- CNN Saturday Morning (Formerly with T.J. Holmes)

• 1PM-2PM: Your Money

• 2PM -- CNN Newsroom

• 6AM-7:30AM -- CNN Sunday Morning (Formerly with T.J. Holmes)

• 7:30AM-8:00AM -- Sanjay Gupta MD

• 8AM-9AM -- CNN Sunday Morning (Formerly with T.J. Holmes)

• 9AM-10AM: State of the Union with Cindy Crowley

• 10AM-11AM: Fareed Zakaria GPS

• 11AM-12PM -- Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz

• 12PM-1PM: State of the Union with Cindy Crowley

• 1PM-2PM -- Fareed Zakaria GPS

• 2PM-3PM -- The Next List

• 3PM-4PM -- Your Money

• 4PM: CNN Newsroom

Comments

[rosiebag]

09:41 AM on 02/21/2012

Good for CNN now that Piers is beating Maddow who needs him.

[valeskas]

02:43 PM on 02/20/2012

Go retire your time was up a while back.

[721]

02:01 PM on 02/20/2012

Larry should just take those millions and start spending. For sure when he's gone his wife and kids are going to live like a "King".

[Revolver Ocelot]

11:28 AM on 02/20/2012

his "specials" were so he and the misses can get their own reality show.

[David Hundley]

10:55 AM on 02/20/2012

If the media is going by their ratings, fergit about it. People are cutting the cable off in record numbers, It is a dying medium. Just like the tel-type machine. Old News same ol'e fluff.
People know the truth when they hear it, and that never happens on network TV, that are owned by the corporate giants.

[David Hundley]

10:49 AM on 02/20/2012

I like to call the out-casts, patriots for personal liberty and freedom of expression.
That's what so many of our fore-fathers fought for and died for. Why stop now?

[David Hundley]

10:47 AM on 02/20/2012

All the news stations are stripping people of their right to freedom of expression. Their viewers are fleeting into the truth and narrow by-ways of news. The media is not like it used to be, there is no swaying public opinion, by twisting the truth. People still talk to each other.

[Sanity Always Prevails]

11:44 PM on 02/19/2012

Clear discrimination on CNN's part. The network WILL be hearing from the Non-Living Association of America!

[DSAldridge]

08:57 PM on 02/19/2012

Why do these media darlings stay so long? Are they just addicted to the spotlight? If I had made the money King did, I would have retired long ago and be relaxing on a beach somewhere. Guess those Type-A narcissists can't do that, huh?

[TruthResearcher]

01:01 PM on 02/19/2012

I don't miss Larry - but Piers Morgan...OMG.

[Simon Byrd]

11:55 AM on 02/19/2012

"Unemployment office, hullo!! Turn down your TV, sir."

[escoffier51]

11:10 AM on 02/19/2012

i was wondering when the embalming fluid was going to wear off

[Cynthia Shore]

03:50 AM on 02/19/2012

He's still alive?

[annasophie1228]

09:36 PM on 02/18/2012

i was stuck in o'hare when "dinner with the kings" aired and, despite being in the same terminal for hours with nothing else to do, it was still torturous to watch. no matter how much they attempted to make it seem like a "salon", at the end of the day, it was nothing more than bigillionaires itting around a mansion being fed by wolfgang puck pontificating on random topics that were bordering on the absurd and unobtainable.

it's a good thing that they finally let him go out to pasture. letting him hang around like brett favre wa not a good idea.

[annasophie1228]

09:40 PM on 02/18/2012

something is wrong with my s key...sorry

[recovering Catholic]

05:34 PM on 02/18/2012

Banfield is simply the most insipid personality on TV today. I don't know who she is or where she came from, but she's terrible. Is she still calling people at 5:30 AM and telling them that the FBI is on the way to their house?

[irv]

04:02 AM on 02/21/2012

banfield has been to so many networks & she can't seem to find the right spot maybe it's your personality ashley?. i watched sambolin at nbc chicago in the a.m. & liked her a great deal. being on with ashley is not her format. she is dominated by ashley who seems to be hogging the program. bad mistake sambolin!