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Rosie leaving 'The View'
« on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 9:58am »

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Rosie O'Donnell leaving `The View' By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
15 minutes ago

Rosie O'Donnell's stormy tenure on "The View" will be a short one. The opinionated host was unable to agree on a contract with ABC, and she'll leave the show in June.

"My needs for the future just didn't dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me," O'Donnell said in a statement Wednesday.

"This has been an amazing experience," she said, "and one I wouldn't have traded for the world."

O'Donnell has helped raise the ratings for the daytime chat show invented by Barbara Walters. But her outspokenness has caused almost constant controversy, including a nasty name-calling feud with Donald Trump that placed Walters squarely in the middle.

"I induced Rosie to come back to television on `The View' even for just one year," Walters said. "She has given the program new vigor, new excitement and wonderful hours of television. I can only be grateful to her for this year."

Walters was frequently left to clean up the damage after O'Donnell. She did it most recently Monday, when O'Donnell was criticized for using bad language and attacking Rupert Murdoch from the dais of the annual New York Women in Communication awards luncheon.

"I would like to point out that Rosie's view is not always mine," Walters said. "I would like to say for the record that I am very fond of Rupert Murdoch."

In the Trump imbroglio, O'Donnell was reportedly mad that Walters did not come more swiftly to her defense, while Trump said Walters told him she didn't want O'Donnell on the show a claim Walters denied.

Statements by public figures are being watched more closely in the post-Don Imus era. The lobbying group Focus on the Family said it was preparing to contact advertisers on "The View" as part of a campaign against O'Donnell. The group is angry at O'Donnell for comments they feel were insulting to Catholics.

Despite controversy or maybe because of it O'Donnell was good business for ABC, owned by the Walt Disney Co. Ratings for "The View" during February sweeps were up 15 percent in key women demographics over the same time in 2006.

Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndication market for Katz Television, said he'd be surprised if ABC didn't try hard to keep O'Donnell, given the attention she brought to the long-running show.

The timing of the announcement doesn't particularly suit O'Donnell if she wants to remain in daytime television. She wouldn't be able to introduce a new program to the syndication market until September 2008, he said. But the company that produced O'Donnell's long-running daytime show has expressed interest in having her back, he said.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #1 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 11:13am »

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See? Prayers DO work. :tup:

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« Reply #2 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 11:30am »

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Somehow, I can't visualize MediaScribe watching the view. The things you learn here boggle the mind!!! Wink

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #3 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 1:58pm »

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Now I can go back to watching The View. Not that they didn't make me mad before but Rosie constantly stepped over the line.

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 4:03pm »

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Every time I watched the show with her on there I had an uncomfortable feeling.. you kept thinking, what controversial crap is she going to stir up this time? And what gets me most I guess is that everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it's the same as hers.. the minute you have a mind of your own.. you're wrong.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #5 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 5:22pm »

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At least she gave David/Mary all those vacations and a new house, car, and loads of other stuff.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #6 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 5:53pm »

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I dont think it was her, I think it was ABC and the View... but they likely wouldn't have received anything if it wasn't for Rosie's watching Amazing Race

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« Reply #7 on: Apr 25^th, 2007, 10:24pm »

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Whatever it takes or took to get her gone is good!
They keep talking about how she raised their viewers,
but I doubt it. If she did in the beginning, they're gone now!
Let's all chalk it on our calendars when she comes back to guest host!
I won't be holding my breath waiting for her!
I felt sorry for Elisabeth to having to sit at the same table with Rosie.
Elisabeth is a good moral person with values.
Rosie is too loud and abrasive and if she didn't have a controversy
going, it appeared she would start one. I only watched TheView during
the Christmas Season, for some great guests were on.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #8 on: Apr 26^th, 2007, 12:32pm »

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I think the only "raise in viewers" were the Jerry Springer type fans who just wanted to see what conflict she could stir up today.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #9 on: Apr 26^th, 2007, 12:57pm »

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on Apr 25^th, 2007, 11:30am, Pocket wrote:

Somehow, I can't visualize MediaScribe watching the view. Wink

Working at an ABC affiliate unfortunately means it's on all around me. I would glance up only when there was a nice shot of beautiful Elizabeth or when I heard something completely insane and wanted to confirm that it was Rosie O'Donuts saying it and not Joseph Stalin.

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« Reply #10 on: Apr 26^th, 2007, 1:43pm »

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At least it's safe to watch morning television now. Not interesting. Just safe.

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« Reply #11 on: Apr 26^th, 2007, 4:56pm »

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Rosie O'Donuts

I'll have to tell that to my mom. She used to like her but every since this, she can't stand her now. Then again who can?

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #12 on: Apr 26^th, 2007, 6:31pm »

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At least he didn't call her Rosie O'Donald.

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Re: Rosie leaving 'The View'
« Reply #13 on: Apr 27^th, 2007, 5:29pm »

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Well, they had Donald Trump say stuff about this...It was quite funny, but grose when he said that she grabbed her crotch and said 'eat me'.

Ewwww.

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« Reply #14 on: May 1^st, 2007, 11:17pm »

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on Apr 27^th, 2007, 5:29pm, TylerC wrote:

Well, they had Donald Trump say stuff about this...It was quite funny, but grose when he said that she grabbed her crotch and said 'eat me'.

Ewwww.

She did that stunt at a Luncheon on Saturday before her leaving was announced. It is my thought that was the straw breaking the camel's back with ABC!

.....just so she goes, last Friday she had 35 shows,
and I'm counting!

At least she didn't run off Elisabeth and I was concerned she might! Shocked

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