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eping price cuts designed to bolster revenues and help newspapers and broadcasters cope with declining revenue.
2012: Gary B. Pruitt succeeds Tom Curley to become president and CEO. Pruitt is the 13th leader of AP in its 166-year history.[8]
2012: AP revenues continued to slide and losses mount as the company posted a $193.3 million total loss in 2011.
AP sports polls[edit]

Main article: AP Poll
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The AP is known for its polls on numerous college sports in the United States. The AP polls ranking the top 25 NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision) college football and NCAA Division I men's and women's college basketball teams are the most well known. The AP composes the polls by collecting and compiling the top-25 votes of numerous designated sports journalists. The AP poll of college football was particularly notable for many years because it helped determine the ranking of teams at the end of the regular season for the collegiate Bowl Championship Series until the AP, citing conflict of interest, asked for the poll to be removed from the bowl series. Beginning in the 2005 season, the Harris Interactive College Football Poll took the AP's place in the bowl series formula. Despite the invention of the BCS, the AP has maintained its status and is viewed as an equal to the BCS (USC's AP title in 2003). The AP poll is the longest serving national poll in college football, having begun in 1936.
AP sports awards[edit]

Baseball[edit]
The AP began its Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league of Major League Baseball.[9] From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.[10] The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.[9]
Basketball[edit]
Every year on March 31, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards.
Football[edit]
AP NFL Coach of the Year
AP NFL Most Valuable Player
AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year
AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year
AP NFL Offensive/Defensive Rookies of the Year