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Is Katie Couric leaving CBS?

Let's hope she does. I've never liked her and always felt she was the wrong choice for the CBS Evening News.
 
KML-224 said:
Let's hope she does. I've never liked her and always felt she was the wrong choice for the CBS Evening News.

So then, how would she be as a talk show host?
 
quadraphonic said:
Yeziknoradio said:
KML-224 said:
Let's hope she does. I've never liked her and always felt she was the wrong choice for the CBS Evening News.

So then, how would she be as a talk show host?
Fawning. Starstruck. Softball.
Maybe she'll have Tom Cruise on first?


Softball? Hmmm. Not according to Sarah Palin, who said that she was "ambushed" by the Couric question "what newspapers and magazines do you regularly read?". Now, to ME that's a softball question, but poor Sarah wrote in her blog that it was--in so many words--"a trick question in typical liberal media form to try to trip me up". So, one person's softball is another person's total brain buster, I guess :)
 
HHH said:
quadraphonic said:
Yeziknoradio said:
KML-224 said:
Let's hope she does. I've never liked her and always felt she was the wrong choice for the CBS Evening News.

So then, how would she be as a talk show host?
Fawning. Starstruck. Softball.
Maybe she'll have Tom Cruise on first?


Softball? Hmmm. Not according to Sarah Palin, who said that she was "ambushed" by the Couric question "what newspapers and magazines do you regularly read?". Now, to ME that's a softball question, but poor Sarah wrote in her blog that it was--in so many words--"a trick question in typical liberal media form to try to trip me up". So, one person's softball is another person's total brain buster, I guess :)
That was long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Or something like that. :)
 
There's been a lot of speculation on Katie's future, none of it substantiated.

- She will do the Early Show (which means Katie's boss has to find something else for his wife to do).

- She will join The View (I'd vote for losing Whoopi and this might be a good move).

Her ego might make her inclined to take a syndication deal but the mortality rate of new syndicated daytime talk shows is not encouraging. Can Katie really carry a show? Will people tune in because it's Katie? No, they'd have to come up with a very compelling format that fits her. No small feat.
 
Katie's Boss has already found something for his wife to do: she has a talk show of her own on afternoons now.
 
How ironic would it be if Katie went back to NBC for a daily talk show? Remember when Faith Daniels had her own talk show? I believe Jane Pauley had one, as well.
 
Want to bet that Katie wishes she never left the Today Show? If CBS executives were smart they would try to hire Lester Holt away from NBC and make him the lead anchor. Speaking of news anchors, I hope Diane Sawyer retires soon. I don't mind watching ABC news, especially on the weekend when the anchors just read the news, unlike Ms. Sawyer who has to add comments after each story. It's not a acting class Diane, so enough with your comments. Just read the damn teleprompter!
 
firepoint525 said:
MattParker said:
- She will do the Early Show (which means Katie's boss has to find something else for his wife to do).
Pab Sungenis said:
Katie's Boss has already found something for his wife to do: she has a talk show of her own on afternoons now.
Julie Chen has been off the Early Show for months now.

Shows how often I watch. If a tree falls in an empty forest, does it make a sound? If Julie Chen is off the morning show, does anybody notice?
 
MattParker said:
firepoint525 said:
MattParker said:
- She will do the Early Show (which means Katie's boss has to find something else for his wife to do).
Pab Sungenis said:
Katie's Boss has already found something for his wife to do: she has a talk show of her own on afternoons now.
Julie Chen has been off the Early Show for months now.
Shows how often I watch. If a tree falls in an empty forest, does it make a sound? If Julie Chen is off the morning show, does anybody notice?
If memory serves, I seem to recall that they continued to run promos of her being on the Early Show, even after she was no longer there. That may have added to the confusion.
 
The rumor mill that I am hearing is CBS wants to keep her. These games are just negotiating ploys IMO. I would expect Katie to sign an extension with CBS soon.
 
Interestingly enough while The CBS Early show is stuck in 3rd place in the mornings, in Hartford quite the opposite is true. In Hartford the show is #1 beating out not only TODAY on NBC 30 and Good Morning America on NEWS 8 but even beating the local news on FOX 61 and MY TV 9 (NEWS 8's sister station). They brought this fact up on Better Connecticut when they were discussing the shake up at The Early Show.
 
KML-224 said:
Let's hope she does. I've never liked her and always felt she was the wrong choice for the CBS Evening News.
Me too. She's nothing but a cutesy substitute and they need a hard news person in there for serious stories and such things as 9-11 and presidential funerals.
 
While I'm most likely to watch Brian Williams I'm
not overly impressed with any of the network
anchors at present. I will say, though, in fairness
to Katie, that I think she shed the "cutesy" image
with her interview with Sarah Palin. Also, many
people praise CBS for having more hard news and
fewer extended feature stories than ABC or NBC.
Of course, the only problem is that none of this
is reflected in CBS's ratings; Katie's still third, and,
if anything, Diane Sawyer has, at times, reduced
Brian Williams' lead to a million homes or less (what
happens when so many ABC affiliates lose Oprah as
lead-in to their local news which leads into the national
news is another story).

But I don't think CBS is going to turn loose of Katie.
Now, of course, if Les Moonves hollered loudly enough,
Julie Chen would probably replace her in a minute... ::)
 
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