Campbell Brown to leave CNN. Wonder who will get the 8PM slot?

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Campbell Brown to leave CNN
After an early report from Mediaite, Brian Stelter at the NYT is confirming on the Media Decoder blog that CNN's 8 p.m. anchor Campbell Brown, whose show bears her name, will be leaving the cable network. No word as of when, exactly, she'll take off. Her departure comes on the heels of reports of plummeting ratings at CNN, and prescriptions for how to fix the ailing network. More from the NYT after the jump.

Ms. Brown was anchoring in arguably the toughest time slot in cable news, 8 o’clock Eastern, the same time that Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann go head-to-head. Compared to those opinion-oriented shows, her news show was largely an afterthought, at least in the nightly ratings match-up.

The Nielsen Company’s ratings show that “Campbell Brown” has attracted an average of 591,000 viewers so far this year, while “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” has averaged 1.03 million and Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor” has averaged 3.34 million.

Nancy Grace, who hosts a tabloid-style crime and justice talk show on CNN’s sister channel, HLN, at that hour, also regularly out-rated Ms. Brown, with an average of 724,000 viewers so far this year.