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Katie Couric To Join Talk Show Fray?

If anyone can do an Oprah-esque show (current events, lifestyle, celebrity/newsmaker interviews interviews) it's Katie. I imagine it would be very successful.
 
The article says: "Whether there’s room at ABC for Couric is unclear"

My suggestion is to replace Barbara Walters. She's made no secret that she's winding down her career. So you make a deal where she does those big superstar interview specials that Barbara has done. Plus she creates her own shows that she co-owns with ABC, in the way Barbara did with The View.
 
With stupid questions like a few she asked on the evening news she won't last. Are there any problems over there in Japan? Well, no, Katie, everything is just friggin' fine over here.
 
Milestone alert: Next month will mark the 35th anniversary of a female anchoring the nightly news for the first time. And that glass ceiling shatterer in 1976 was Barbara Walters on ABC News. She can retire when she chooses to, but I just can't envision the likes of Katie Couric replacing her.
 
DToTheJ said:
Milestone alert: Next month will mark the 35th anniversary of a female anchoring the nightly news for the first time. And that glass ceiling shatterer in 1976 was Barbara Walters on ABC News. She can retire when she chooses to, but I just can't envision the likes of Katie Couric replacing her.
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Really? Let's see what Babs has done in recent years: celebrity interviews and The View. Hmm...hard-hitting -- particularly when tangling with Whoopi on The View (sarcasm intended).
 
DToTheJ said:
She can retire when she chooses to, but I just can't envision the likes of Katie Couric replacing her.
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You're still holding a candle for Howard Stern, saying he's irreplaceable. But the fact is there comes a time when everyone needs to be replaced, regardless of who does it. No one lives forever. Katie came up through the exact same system as Barbara, from local TV to Today to anchoring news. She's a respected interviewer, and is an experienced broadcaster. Personal prejudices aside, she is well qualified to take the role. Has she asked bad questions? Sure. Barbara's most famous one was "If you were a tree, which one would you be?" Not an example of great questioning. But she survived the attacks and criticism, as she did the attacks of Harry Reasoner and all the other men who resented her. I think Katie will do the same, and will be able to thank Barbara for fighting the same battles before her.
 
DToTheJ said:
Milestone alert: Next month will mark the 35th anniversary of a female anchoring the nightly news for the first time.
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...the hell it is. Pauline Frederick did exactly that on ABC's All-Star News in (IIRC) 1951...
 
bostonmediaguy said:
If anyone can do an Oprah-esque show (current events, lifestyle, celebrity/newsmaker interviews interviews) it's Katie. I imagine it would be very successful.
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Everyone said the same about Jane Pauley (remember that train wreck?)
 
Ultimajock said:
DToTheJ said:
Milestone alert: Next month will mark the 35th anniversary of a female anchoring the nightly news for the first time.
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...the hell it is. Pauline Frederick did exactly that on ABC's All-Star News in (IIRC) 1951...
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There is no need to be rude while providing information many folks do not know.
 
That's interesting. I'd imagine WFTV (the ABC station in Mickey Mouse's backyard) was offered the show first, but turned it down for whatever reason. And now WESH, per the article, "doesn’t know where it will schedule" Couric's show.
 
With "General Hospital" now running dead last among the soaps,
I'm still predicting that ABC will give back 3 PM (ET), and that
stations like WABC and (possibly, by that time, if Anderson tanks)
WJLA will use Katie as a lead-in to 4 PM local news. As for WESH,
NBC doesn't program 3 PM anyway, so they could use her very easily
to lead into their 4 PM newscast.
 
DToTheJ said:
That's interesting. I'd imagine WFTV (the ABC station in Mickey Mouse's backyard) was offered the show first, but turned it down for whatever reason. And now WESH, per the article, "doesn’t know where it will schedule" Couric's show.
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If Katie's show is a 3pm Eastern show, it would have to be 3pm or 4pm tape delayed. Looking at WESH's schedule, I see they have Anderson at 2, Ellen at 3, and News at 4. Either Ellen moves to 2pm or 4pm, or Katie is at 4pm.

DToTheJ said:
That's interesting. I'd imagine WFTV (the ABC station in Mickey Mouse's backyard) was offered the show first, but turned it down for whatever reason. And now WESH, per the article, "doesn’t know where it will schedule" Couric's show.
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WESH might have been offered the show before WFTV, considering that Hearst owns WESH, and Hearst is more allied to Disney/ABC (co-owner of ESPN, Lifetime, helps) than Cox is to ABC. Boston, where ABC affiliate owned by Hearst exists, also still trumps Atlanta in the DMA rank, where ABC affiliate owned by Cox exists.
 
bpatrick said:
With "General Hospital" now running dead last among the soaps, I'm still predicting that ABC will give back 3 PM (ET), and that stations like WABC and (possibly, by that time, if Anderson tanks)
WJLA will use Katie as a lead-in to 4 PM local news...
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That's exactly what DCRTV.com had speculated what WJLA would do.
 
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