Campbell Brown steps down as anchor of eponymous CNN cable news show due to low ratings

NY Daily News ^ | May 19, 2010 | Soraya Roberts

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Anchors aren't known for admitting their shortcomings but Campbell Brown is accepting defeat.

The eponymous host of CNN's "Campbell Brown" has stepped down from the "toughest timeslot in cable news" due to low ratings.

"Simply put, the ratings for my program are not where I would like them to be," Brown said in a statement released Tuesday. "It is largely for this reason that I am stepping down as anchor of CNN’s 'Campbell Brown.’ "

Brown added that she had been ruminating over the move "for some time" and that she felt the urge to reveal the truth behind her departure.

"I have never had much tolerance for others’ spin, so I can’t imagine trying to stomach my own," she said. "The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else."

Brown's news program aired at 8 p.m. on CNN opposite Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," HLN's "Nancy Grace" and MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” While Brown praised the "incredible talents" of her 8 p.m. cable news competitors, she also revealed she didn't feel she was in the same league as these pundits.

[softwarecreator]

That's why she thinks its the toughest time slot. She has to go up against O’Reilley.

She'd get lousy ratings even if she went against reruns of "My Mother the Car"

[softwarecreator]

Good, now if Olbermann would just jump out a window.........

The helium in his head would cause him to float into the upper atmosphere.

[Dominic01]

well ale be damned!

[rrrod]

sell her and her entire family to the arabs...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks hennie pennie.