Word on the ‘Street’: over

“Wall Street Week,” a financial information program that became one of the longest-running national franchises in television, is retiring, Maryland Public Television said Thursday.

The final show of the 35-year-old PBS series will be produced June 24.

The first version of the show, hosted by Louis Rukeyser, ran from 1970 to 2002. At its height, the Rukeyser show was carried by 300 stations, earned more than $6 million a year and was seen by 1.5 million viewers, one of the largest audiences of any weekly public TV series.

Rukeyser quit in March 2002 rather than go along with executives’ plan to demote him and use younger hosts to update the format. Less than a month after his unexpected exit, Rukeyser debuted with “Louis Rukeyser’s Wall Street” on financial network CNBC.

On the PBS successor, “Wall Street Week With Fortune,” hosting duties were performed by Geoffrey Colvin, editorial director of Fortune magazine, and former Fox News Channel correspondent Karen Gibbs. The show struggled, keeping about 1 million viewers but attracting less interest from underwriters, the producers said.