I don't think the ladies of "The View" are going anywhere anytime soon. Barbara Walters might be in that TV studio in the sky, but they've won numerous Daytime Emmy Awards and continue to generate very good ratings for ABC.

I think the bigger issue is how stations plan to fill voids in their respective schedules in the wake of the demise of "Access Hollywood", "Karamo" & "The Steve Wilkos Show".

The plan is for "Access" to continue airing until September. Meanwhile, "Karamo" & "Wilkos" have wrapped production and will air shows until the end of the summer.

I think at the end of the day, the business of television has changed. Syndication may have made Roger & Michael King very rich in the '80s when their company King World started distributing shows such as "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy!" & "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to local stations across America, but not so much now.

"Baywatch" was a ratings flop in its only season on NBC in 1989-90, but they found their niche in syndication and became quite the show some 35 years ago.

Syndication is no longer the cash cow that it once was. I think it's very likely we get more local news to fill the voids following the cancellations of these talk shows as well as "Access Hollywood" this fall.