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Rosie O’Donnell Ends Her Tour of Duty on ‘The View’

Published on April 25, 2007 | Email this article

Rosie O’Donnell’s days on The View are numbered. The co-host will leave the show in mid-June, due to the inability of O’Donnell and ABC to reach a contract agreement, according to ABC.com (via Fishbowl NY).

“They wanted me three years, I wanted one year, and it just didn’t work,” O’Donnell said on today’s show. Rose will still appear on the show, but she will not be an every day host. President of daytime programming at Disney-ABC Television Group Brian Frons said that, “Going in we knew we would have an amazing year with her, and that anything beyond that would be gravy.”

Ratings for The View during February sweeps were up 15 percent in what the article calls “key women demographics” over the same time in 2006.

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