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it won’t be soon enuff, rosie o

From: VTGUNS@
Date: Monday, November 20, 2000 6:11 PM
Subject: Rosie O’Donnell May Quit Her TV Show

>Her ratings were on the skids and she jumped ship to try to survive.
>A Bush victory might drive her to infomercials in the wee AM hours.
>Evan
>
>Rosie O’Donnell May Quit Her TV Show
>
>By DAVID BAUDER
>.c The Associated Press
>
>
>NEW YORK (AP) – Rosie O’Donnell may be gaining a magazine, but losing her
>talk show.
>
>The daytime talk show host, during a “Today” show appearance to promote her
>new association with McCall’s magazine, hedged at first but then indicated
>she would end “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” when her contract expires in
>spring 2002.
>
>A sensation upon its debut in 1996, O’Donnell’s show has sagged in the
>ratings this year, and the one-time Queen of Nice has been in a few political
>dustups. She is committed to her show through the next season.
>
>She told NBC’s Katie Couric on Friday that she was “leaning toward” not
>continuing.
>
>“Why don’t you just say, `I’m not going to do it’?” Couric said. “Then
>you’d really make news this morning.”
>
>O’Donnell replied: “All right, I’m not going to do it.”
>
>Couric gave O’Donnell a chance to escape, saying she didn’t want to pressure
>her into making a decision too early. O’Donnell didn’t back down, and said
>that an announcement is expected in January.
>
>“Warner Brothers has been wonderful to me,” she said. “They, of course,
>would love for me to continue. It’s beneficial to me, as it is to them. But
>at some point you have to make those decisions in your life.”
>
>Scott Rowe, spokesman for show syndicators Warner Brothers Television, said
>that the company never discusses contract negotiations, “but we’re hopeful
>that Rosie will return.”
>
>Laura Mandel, a spokeswoman for the show, said, “Our stance is that
>nothing’s been decided.”
>
>O’Donnell was a clear third in the talk show ratings pecking order behind
>Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Springer as recently as this spring. But this fall,
>her ratings have dropped by 19 percent, and she has slipped behind Regis
>Philbin and Maury Povich into a tie for fifth with Montel Williams.
>
>“The show is aging and it’s losing steam,” said Marc Berman, an analyst for
>Media Week Online.
>
>It’s always possible O’Donnell could be threatening to leave in order to
>negotiate a better deal, said Bill Carroll, an expert on TV syndication for
>the Katz Television Group.
>
>But while many TV station owners once considered O’Donnell an heir apparent
>to Winfrey, now most expect Winfrey to outlast her, he said. Winfrey recently
>signed a new contract that will keep her on the air through at least 2004.
>
>O’Donnell has become more politically active in Democratic causes and last
>year engaged in a tense on-air debate on gun control with Tom Selleck. A day
>before the election this month, she gave Barbra Streisand a platform to
>promote Gore’s candidacy. Streisand said O’Donnell’s syndicators didn’t like
>the idea.
>
>Some stations have been concerned about O’Donnell’s political activism,
>Carroll said. “No one wants her to not express her feelings, but at the same
>time, that’s not necessarily the best format for it,” he said.
>
>O’Donnell told Couric that she began doing the show because it was a
>convenient schedule for her young children. Now, she said she is concerned
>that it’s hindering her ability to be a good parent, since strangers often
>approach them in public.
>
>“The main impetus for doing the show was my children,” she said. “And if I
>did stop doing the show, that would be the impetus, as well, because I enjoy
>it very much. It’s been more fulfilling than I ever thought.”
>