Local dating show “My Dating Place” has been canceled, confirmed by a call to Fox 10, the station that aired the program.

The show, hosted by Fox 10 reporter Yetta Gibson, followed local singles who met on the accompanying My Dating Place Web site. The Web site will remain active.

The reason given was that the ratings weren’t high enough to justify the expense of the show, a rare non-news locally-produced program. The show started last spring on KUTP-TV (channel 45 over the air, channel 9 on Cox Cable), and moved to sister station KSAZ-TV (channel 10) late last year in an attempt to boost ratings.

Tribune staff writer Kelly Wilson wrote an article about the show last year, check it out here .

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