"Judge Joe Brown" is ending its run after this season after 15 years in syndication as the second highest-rated court show after "Judge Judy" according to CBS Television Distribution.

"'Judge Joe Brown' will not be returning for another season. We would like to thank Joe for 15 great years, as well as executive producer John Terenzio and the entire staff for all their hard work and dedication to the show," said a spokesperson for CBS Television Distribution in a statement.

The news of cancelation follows after CTD and Brown failed to reach an agreement on terms of a new contract. It seems Brown's salary was to be trimmed from the $20 million a year, he was making in line with his dropping ratings.

"It was time to move out on my own since I had some ideas that I had been having to pull teeth with no novocaine to get adopted," said Brown. Brown also said that CTD was "difficult to deal with" and "applied zero public relations and zero advertisement" to his show.

The recent February sweeps revealed "Judge Joe Brown" having a 2.5 household rating, down 17 percent from the prior February, according to Nielsen Media Research. Except for "Judge Judy", all of the court shows are down as much as 20 percent this season. She averaged a 7.5 household rating in February, about 10.5 million viewers a day.

Even though he draws 3.4 million viewers a day, he lost about a million viewers since last February at 4.1 million, according to Hollywood Reporter.

CTD had been in discussions with Fox about finding a replacement for Judge Brown with a new show led by Indiana Judge Geoffrey Gaither, however Fox has refused to make the switch.

At this point "Judge Brown" will go off the air, at least with CTD as a distributor. The show will run original and repeat episodes on the Fox owned stations until September.

Brown and his team have met with Byron Allen of Entertainment Studios in recent months about continuing his show.

"Judge Joe Brown" first aired in 1998, before he was a real life criminal courts judge in Shelby County, Tennessee. He began his career as a lawyer and became the first African American prosecutor in Memphis, Tennessee.

Fans mourn the loss of the show on its Facebook page.

 "I admire his sense of justice and his penchant for 'protecting womanhood and promoting manhood.' I also appreciate his sense of humor and his uncanny wisdom. I hope CBS reconsiders or another media will pick up the show," wrote Mary Zimmerman.