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Katie Couric to ABC daytime, with a role at ABC News?

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Nate Wesley

So it sounds like "General Hospital" goes. If that's true, there's
a bit of irony there; ABC was the last network to put a soap in
its daytime schedule. Its first was "GH" (1963), and now it seems
ready to be the first network to dump all its soaps--the last one
being "GH".
 
bpatrick said:
So it sounds like "General Hospital" goes. If that's true, there's
a bit of irony there; ABC was the last network to put a soap in
its daytime schedule. Its first was "GH" (1963), and now it seems
ready to be the first network to dump all its soaps--the last one
being "GH".
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I would think that GH stays, and Couric might be taking one of the slots being vacated by the departures of All My Children and One Life to Live. They never did specifically mention (at least to my knowledge) what type of talk show is being coupled with the cooking-type show that's scheduled to debut. By the way, General Hospital is ABC's longest-running show, entertainment or otherwise (and the fourth-longest running program currently running--behind NBC's Meet the Press, Today Show, and Tonight Show).
 
ABC said that the shows replacing "AMC" and "OLTL" were "The Chew"
(the cooking show) and "The Revolution" (a makeover show); the former
is scheduled to debut in September; the latter, in January.

And you could argue that "General Hospital" is the fifth-longest-running
series; "Face The Nation" has been on since 1954, although there was
a period in 1962 when CBS substituted a program called "Washington
Conversation," so I suppose "GH" is the fourth-longest continuously-running
show.
 
Which will get worse ratings: NBC affiliates' 11 PM news following "The Jay Leno Show," or ABC affiliates' new post-Oprah 4 PM newscast following "The Katie Couric Show"?
 
DToTheJ said:
Which will get worse ratings: NBC affiliates' 11 PM news following "The Jay Leno Show," or ABC affiliates' new post-Oprah 4 PM newscast following "The Katie Couric Show"?
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Will Katie Couric appear as a 20/20 correspondent doing specials that resembe the Barbara Walters specials. But KGO still has 7live prior to the 4pm news does this mean that 7live goes away for Couric?
 
I originally didn't see this as a GH replacement.

But for a high profile person like Katie Couric (and at a $20 Million) ABC would more likely slot her to a 3pm slot than a 1pm or 2pm slot Eastern Time. Maybe GH could be preserved by moving up an hour. However, that would likely affect the GH audience, and ultimately kill it off anyways as well.

3pm is the new 4pm, and ABC at 4pm will likely stick with the local newscasts.

I think WPVI will likely do well with its 4pm newscast. I'm not sure with WABC, but I'd think so too.

The other options are 9am and 10am, however, Kelly will likely get a new co-host, and the ABC station group would probably like to keep syndicated Rachael Ray atleast on WABC and WPVI. In LA and SFO, Rachael Ray is on the CBS affiliates. It'd be interesting if RR would ever switch to all CBS O&Os, or if the ABC group could extend her to all of its O&Os in a market with both an ABC and CBS O&O. In Chicago, she is on WGN.
 
mgsports said:
Then she will need a Co-host then. Dr. oz is also coming to ABC to replace Oprah soon.
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Wait a minute! Dr. Oz has a syndicated show right now. Are you saying that show won't be on anymore? Also, a third hour of GMA would pre-empt Live With Regis And Kelly on WQAD in the Quad Cities...
 
I don't understand how someone can fail like Couric did on the CBS Evening News and be rewarded with an even larger contract. What talent did Couric demonstrate other than losing viewers?
 
ding12 said:
...Kelly [Ripa] will likely get a new co-host, and the ABC station group would probably like to keep syndicated Rachael Ray at least on WABC and WPVI. In LA and SFO, Rachael Ray is on the CBS affiliates. It'd be interesting if RR would ever switch to all CBS O&Os, or if the ABC group could extend her to all of its O&Os in a market with both an ABC and CBS O&O. In Chicago, she is on WGN.
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"Live With (Insert Regis' Replacement Here) & Kelly" also airs on WGN-TV, as does Rachael Ray.
 
ding12 said:
I originally didn't see this as a GH replacement.

But for a high profile person like Katie Couric (and at a $20 Million) ABC would more likely slot her to a 3pm slot than a 1pm or 2pm slot Eastern Time. Maybe GH could be preserved by moving up an hour. However, that would likely affect the GH audience, and ultimately kill it off anyways as well.

3pm is the new 4pm, and ABC at 4pm will likely stick with the local newscasts.

I think WPVI will likely do well with its 4pm newscast. I'm not sure with WABC, but I'd think so too.

The other options are 9am and 10am, however, Kelly will likely get a new co-host, and the ABC station group would probably like to keep syndicated Rachael Ray atleast on WABC and WPVI. In LA and SFO, Rachael Ray is on the CBS affiliates. It'd be interesting if RR would ever switch to all CBS O&Os, or if the ABC group could extend her to all of its O&Os in a market with both an ABC and CBS O&O. In Chicago, she is on WGN.
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I'm just increasingly convinced that ABC is trying to go to an all-talk and reality daytime lineup, and that means getting rid of its last remaining soap. Daytime president Brian Frons says that the cancellations of "AMC" and "OLTL" were based on research showing that lifestyle shows are the only ones to have made ratings gains in daytime in recent years; further, the soap audience is dwindling and the ratings no longer justify the production costs. Contrast that with CBS; yes, they dumped "GL" and "ATWT" but the network's audience is older, and "Y&R" and "B&B" seem safe for the indefinite future as both consistently maintain ratings of 2 or better, which is not bad in this day and age (heck, CBS is the only network with game shows!).
 
@mgsports: You mean, the syndicated "Dr. Oz" program will be moving from the NBC affiliate in your neck of the woods, to the ABC affiliate there, correct? A completely different animal than ABC replacing network daytime programming...

@bpatrick: It's eventually going to get to a point where "Y&R" and "B&B" are going to finish Nos. 1 and 2 by default, because they'll probably be the only soaps left at that point!
 
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