Larry King Show

After nine weeks, production of the show moved to Mutual's main studios in Crystal City, Virginia, near Washington, D.C.[5][6][7] The program was initially carried by 28 stations[8] and rapidly developed a large and devoted audience[9] who became known as "King-aholics".

"[6] King recalled that due to the number of calls coming in during the early days of the show "there was more than one occasion when [area code] 703 blew".

[12] During the 1980s, C-SPAN would annually videotape, and then repeatedly show an entire broadcast of King's Mutual radio program on cable TV.

[20] At 3 a.m., during the segment known as Open Phone America, King would allow callers to discuss any topic of their choice,[9] until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions.

[21] Most stations in the western time zones would carry Open Phone America live beginning at 12:05 a.m., followed by the guest interview on tape delay.

[28] King would occasionally entertain his audience by telling amusing anecdotes from his youth and early career in radio, such as a story about when he and his friends faked the death of a schoolmate.

[36] The show also occasionally featured a "fictional alien, Gork of the planet Fringus",[37] "a Brooklyn-accented intergalactic Donald Duck"[21] "who supposedly existed [31 days] in the future, giving highlights of the coming [month][38] on Earth".

As a result, many of King's overnight affiliates declined to carry the daytime show[44] and it was unable to generate the same audience size.

[citation needed] After sixteen years on Mutual, King decided to resign from the program, with his final broadcast heard on May 27, 1994.

Westwood One, owner of the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1985 to 1999, continued to air a radio simulcast of King's CNN show until December 31, 2009.