CNN announced on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 to cancel one of its best-known anchors Connie Chung's prime-time show, "Connie Chung Tonight". Connie Chung was hired last spring. Her show was temporarily replaced by an Aaron Brown-anchored news program after the war's start last week Ms. Chung was asked to stay at CNN in another capacity and decline. Connie Chung is a major figure in broadcasting over the past 30 years. She was hired away from ABC News last year, where she primarily worked in newsmagazines and landed a high-profile interview with Gary Condit. CNN built a new studio for her in midtown Manhattan and the program launched on June 24. Chung's show had roughly half the audience of cable news' nighttime king, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, but she averaged almost 1 million viewers a night and improved CNN's performance in the 8 p.m. ET time slot.