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fred flintstone
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Ding dong!
Bring back Bob.
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Mark_Giardina
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fred flintstone said:
Actually I am surprised that it has taken just five weeks for the viewing audience to be smart enough to go back to ABC and NBC. At this rate Katie will lose the audience that Bob Schieffer had built up during his brief tenure as CBS news anchor.
What Couric 's venture might hopefully mean is that the days of networks paying so-called "news readers" millions of dollars are over with.
nuzguy said:
I'm quite sure that Katie has already has got her "CBS Goes Towards The Entertainment Tonight/Extra/The Insider Audience" plan
ready to go whenever she wants to go in that direction,in other words a step back to her Today Show days where she interviews celebrities rather than giving news,which she did more often than giving news on Today and her standing in Rockefellow Center in the snow and rain.
Charles Gibson gets more of my news since he is a newsman as is Brian Williams. Katie Couric is not a newswoman,far from it. She is more of the Entertainment Tonight type of newscaster than she is a newswoman. Maybe she can host The Insider along with Kathie Lee Gifford. She is more suited in that role than anything else.
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Nertz!
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brian77 said:
Thank you.
I knew that the Katie Couric show reminded me of something.
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TheLaffer
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Oh my gosh the CBS RADIO blunders have shown up on the tv side! ;D
Fred, you're TOO generous.
NOT ONLY are you sharing the-wit-and-wisdom of your ambiguous resume with RADIO readers here, you're also straightening-us-out-about-TELEVISION?
Either you are:
a.) typing-faster-than-you're-reading; or
b.) editing in FoxNews mode.
Otherwise, you might have noted that:
1. The CBS Evening News is the only of three network shows with more viewers last week than same-week '05; and
2. the CBS show is #1 in the demographic most-in-demand by advertisers, 25-54. You're NOT seeing those Microsoft spots, right?
Yes, ABC beat CBS last week.
And they should be celebrating.
The only other Couric-era week that "World News" beat CBS it was by fewer than 100,000 viewers.
With network TV audience measured in the millions, YOU might not call that competitive...
For those here who haven't weathered Anonymous Fred's musings on the radio boards, here's most-of-what-you-need-to-know-about Fred-on-Katie, HIS words:
"I don't what Katie's religious practices are but her mother was a Jew; that makes her a Jew under the Torah"
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NOT ONLY are you sharing the-wit-and-wisdom of your ambiguous resume with RADIO readers here, you're also straightening-us-out-about-TELEVISION?
Either you are:
a.) typing-faster-than-you're-reading; or
b.) editing in FoxNews mode.
Otherwise, you might have noted that:
1. The CBS Evening News is the only of three network shows with more viewers last week than same-week '05; and
2. the CBS show is #1 in the demographic most-in-demand by advertisers, 25-54. You're NOT seeing those Microsoft spots, right?
Yes, ABC beat CBS last week.
And they should be celebrating.
The only other Couric-era week that "World News" beat CBS it was by fewer than 100,000 viewers.
With network TV audience measured in the millions, YOU might not call that competitive...
For those here who haven't weathered Anonymous Fred's musings on the radio boards, here's most-of-what-you-need-to-know-about Fred-on-Katie, HIS words:
"I don't what Katie's religious practices are but her mother was a Jew; that makes her a Jew under the Torah"
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Defeat goes over defense before detail.
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Mark_Giardina
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Charles Gibson gets more of my news since he is a newsman as is Brian Williams. Katie Couric is not a newswoman,far from it. She is more of the Entertainment Tonight type of newscaster than she is a newswoman. Maybe she can host The Insider along with Kathie Lee Gifford. She is more suited in that role than anything else.
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I agree 100%. Gibson is perhaps the best anchor ABC could have hired. The network realized it made a mistake with Elizabeth Vargas. They should have gone with Gibson in the first place.
As for Couric; CBS knew what it was getting when they hired her. I hope they enjoy being in third place when it comes to network news because that is where they will stay. I can't wait for Election Night coverage with "Perky." No thanks, I will stay with 'real' newspeople like Gibson.
Charles Gibson gets more of my news since he is a newsman as is Brian Williams. Katie Couric is not a newswoman,far from it. She is more of the Entertainment Tonight type of newscaster than she is a newswoman. Maybe she can host The Insider along with Kathie Lee Gifford. She is more suited in that role than anything else.
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I agree 100%. Gibson is perhaps the best anchor ABC could have hired. The network realized it made a mistake with Elizabeth Vargas. They should have gone with Gibson in the first place.
As for Couric; CBS knew what it was getting when they hired her. I hope they enjoy being in third place when it comes to network news because that is where they will stay. I can't wait for Election Night coverage with "Perky." No thanks, I will stay with 'real' newspeople like Gibson.
I'm with you on most of your assessment. Katie seems out of her element. I keep waiting for her to bust out into some sort of food segment or yuppie fad piece. She looks like she's trying to act serious instead of just being serious. Though I can't really blame her for reaching for the peak of Mt. Cronkite, I think CBS would've been better served with Ann Curry, Campbell Brown, or hell, even Tina Fey.
Oh, and I'd take Elizabeth Vargas and Soledad O'Brien for Katie and a player to be named later.
Oh, and I'd take Elizabeth Vargas and Soledad O'Brien for Katie and a player to be named later.
"Holland seems to think Marge and Homer are typical of the radio audience"
Another Anonymous Fred misquote.
What-he-SHOULD-have-said was: "Holland seems to think Marge and Homer are typical of DIARYKEEPERS."
Who do you THINK returns Arbitron diaries?
Only the Ph.Ds and runway models YOU hang out with?
Want to see Arbitron diarykeepers?
Lurk at the checkout counter at Wal-Mart.
Well THAT explains your issues with women and Jews.
At least you've spared us racial epithets...
Another Anonymous Fred misquote.
What-he-SHOULD-have-said was: "Holland seems to think Marge and Homer are typical of DIARYKEEPERS."
Who do you THINK returns Arbitron diaries?
Only the Ph.Ds and runway models YOU hang out with?
Want to see Arbitron diarykeepers?
Lurk at the checkout counter at Wal-Mart.
fred flintstone said:
Well THAT explains your issues with women and Jews.
At least you've spared us racial epithets...
Ok. Any chance that Holland and Fred can take their tedium to an IM? Please?
Any chance that Holland and Fred can take their tedium to an IM?
I'll defer to Katie's wishes...
I'll defer to Katie's wishes...
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passafistwastaken
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I can't believe people still watch network news! With so many different and better alternatives, why do people still watch it?
passafistwastaken said:
Such as? Not everyone can afford cable nor are able to install a dish. As I said before when Comcast told me my cable bill was going up I got rid of them. Especially when they said the cost rise was due to imporovments in internet and voice over phone service. Dish for me? Not an option. Despite FCC rules, there are enough exceptions to prevent them. And in city markets where buildings are close and landlords would simply refuse to renew your lease if you cause them issues. Dishes are not an option.
That leaves the internet, which is a joke. Try findind a decent non political site. The internet is one extreme viewpoint after another.
Radio I get CBS newradio which is an endless loop of 1 minute newsbits.
That leaves Free TV. I'm in Chicago and with an antenna all you get is 7(ABC). Channels 2 (CBS) and 5 (NBC) are virtually unwatchable.
There may be better alternatives, but not all these alternatives are open to everyone.
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fred flintstone
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Rook: Katie = Another David Lee Roth
Legendary programmer John Rook says...
(From RadioDailyNews.com)
Question is: Who is the news division's Opie and Anthony? And will Jim McKay's kid be as quick to acknowledge "the agony of defeat?"
Legendary programmer John Rook says...
(From RadioDailyNews.com)
Question is: Who is the news division's Opie and Anthony? And will Jim McKay's kid be as quick to acknowledge "the agony of defeat?"
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cdk
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Before, I would watch NBC Nightly News everyday but for special events I would watch ABC. Peter Jennigs just had something about him that made you want to watch a big event (i.e. 9/11, election night) with him. Now, I think I'll watch ABC every night and NBC for the big stuff.
As far as Couric is conerned, CBS blew it. Schieffer was slowly giving credibility back to the news there and even luring some conservatives back on board. But now, I think Evening News could be better suited on Lifetime in front of the Nanny...
As far as Couric is conerned, CBS blew it. Schieffer was slowly giving credibility back to the news there and even luring some conservatives back on board. But now, I think Evening News could be better suited on Lifetime in front of the Nanny...
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Nertz!
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Why did CBS even hire her?
I don't know anyone who likes her, and I find myself actually watching Today more now that she is gone.
I don't know anyone who likes her, and I find myself actually watching Today more now that she is gone.
Nertz! said:
CBS hired her because they thought they had the Golden Goose in their hands and they found out they had a Turkey on their hands. A $15 million dollar a year Turkey to be exact.
Meredith Vierera is a lot much better person than Katie is and she has 2 shows to do,The Today Show and syndicated Millionaire. At least she is bubbly and vibrant whereas Katie acts so stiff and transparent.
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