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KATIE COURIC ABC/DISNEY SYNDICATED TALK DEAL MAY BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY

gregg75

gregg75

Could be. I thought they were axing general hospital to give an hour back to local tv stations.
 
Since Regis Philbin (whose show is also syndicated by the Mouse) is retiring at the end of this year, meaning the end of Live with Regis and Kelly, could the Katie Couric program be his intended replacement?
 
It doesn't necessarily mean she'd be on the ABC affiliate in
every city; Regis & Kelly, and "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,"
are not, and Disney syndicates those. So stations like WSB and
KSAT, which are ABC affiliates but not o&os and have started 4 PM
newscasts, wouldn't necessarily be interested in Katie's show unless
either (a) she replaces Regis & Kelly at 9 AM, or (b) ABC cancels "General
Hospital" and gives 3 PM back to the affiliates.

As far as the o&os are concerned, if Regis is replaced by another male host
and the show continues, they may push to get 3 PM for Katie. I'm not going
to make a premature prediction.
 
bpatrick said:
It doesn't necessarily mean she'd be on the ABC affiliate in
every city;
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I thought the Katie deal was with ABC as in network, not Disney-ABC Domestic Television (which distributes Live with R&K, and Millionaire, and used to distribute Wayne Brady/Tony Danza). But upon reading this article, it seems it will be syndicated.

Bob1370 said:
Since Regis Philbin (whose show is also syndicated by the Mouse) is retiring at the end of this year, meaning the end of Live with Regis and Kelly, could the Katie Couric program be his intended replacement?
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I don't think they will axe Live. Kelly could be paired with any number of celebrities, such as Christian Slater (who co-hosted while Regis was out). Look at NBC that is keeping The Office without Carell.

My guess:
All Eastern (relevant esp. to WABC, WPVI):

2pm: GH moves to 2pm eastern making the OLTL replacement a temp, or GH gets cancelled as well,
3pm for Katie
4pm free to local stations (in some markets: newscasts).

If WABC's 4pm newscast doesn't stick, WABC could just move Millionaire to 4pm, and air 2 episodes, or Rachael Ray to 4, or Katie at 4 (but delayed, dependent if her show is live or not, and the time it is for).

I think WPVI should have no problem with its 4pm newscast. I can't imagine ABC starting these 4pm newscasts for it stations, WABC and WPVI, to cancel them for Katie in a year, if Katie is live at 4.
 
Your guess is also relevant to WTVD since it also started
a 4 PM newscast the day after Oprah's last show and is
an ABC o&o. I'll be interested in seeing how the station's
4 PM news does against "The Young And The Restless" on
WRAL, given that "Y&R" consistently beat Oprah in Raleigh/
Durham.
 
I suppose former "Oprah" stations would do better with news, much less Katie Couric anchoring the news.
 
This whole thing has me perplexed. What in the heck is Katie Couric's appeal? She comes off as smug and obnoxious and, by all accounts, failed at CBS News.
 
Regarding the speculation on time and what would go to make room for Katie:

I've read speculation that GH would be cancelled, and I've also read articles that ABC wouldn't cancel its last soap.

In the article that said GH would not be cancelled, the speculation was that ABC would give one hour of programming back to its affiliates in the hopes that many of them would pick up Katie.

If that's the case, look for one of the new talk shows replacing the soaps at 1 pm and 2pm to be only temporary. ABC would give one of those hours back to affiliates and hope they'd pick up Katie.

This could still mean some time shifting of schedules. Stations have some freedom to shift ABC's daytime schedule, don't they, as long as they air all of the programs? You could see GH shifted in some markets.
 
So, I'm guessing this will lead up to be the third major network Couric works for. That just leaves FOX out of the four major networks, unless I miss something she did over there. I just find this interesting.
 
gregg75 said:
She gets the 3PM slot in September 2012 which ABC is giving back to the affiliates.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/abc-announces-deal-with-katie-couric/
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So from what I see now "General Hospital" may be gone in September 2012 since the General Hospital time slot is 3:00 Eastern/2:00 Central unless they find a place in the morning to put it which I doubt they would.

And by the way since Katie is now on ABC I would imagine that the radar to replace Barbara Walters on The View once she retires or worse with Katie will grow even further if Katie's talk show fails to deliver. She's more fit to step in and do interviews with celebrities than she does giving hard news.
 
BlueWanderer said:
So, I'm guessing this will lead up to be the third major network Couric works for. That just leaves FOX out of the four major networks, unless I miss something she did over there. I just find this interesting.
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She has yet to fill Connie Chung's shoes in that department as she has been on every network or cable network imaginable (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, etc.)
 
BlueWanderer said:
So, I'm guessing this will lead up to be the third major network Couric works for. That just leaves FOX out of the four major networks, unless I miss something she did over there. I just find this interesting.
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She began her career in news as a desk assistant for ABC in 1979.
 
ABC: We're giving 3PM back to the affiliates, but we strongly suggest they carry this show.

...........and I bet at least 95% will. What, no Married With Children at 3PM, bummer (kidding)?
 
gregg75 said:
ABC: We're giving 3PM back to the affiliates, but we strongly suggest they carry this show.

...........and I bet at least 95% will. What, no Married With Children at 3PM, bummer (kidding)?
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Yes, but in some markets, I'm sure ABC's domestic arm might pitch it to other affiliates.

For example, ABC would rather Hearst's WBAL (NBC) to pick up Katie at 3, than WMAR 2 (ABC) in Baltimore, although WBAL already is a hogger with Dr. Oz and Ellen. Perhaps going the ABC Domestic route also makes it easier for syndication for international purposes as well.
 
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