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Katie to the CBS Early show after Viera leaves?????

jkb said:
It seems that Viera is tired of the early morning routine that accompanies being on the Today show. Do you think this will provide CBS a way to rid itself of Katie on the national while increasing it's morning show ratings???

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/ENT07/708200315/1035/ENT
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??? What does one have to do with the other? If CBS was so inclined, they could probably put Katie on the Early Show within a week (depending on the details of her contract, of course).

Whether Meredith Viera leaves NBC's Today or not does not matter one bit. Different network. I don't see her as being such a big draw anyway.
 
Re: Katie NOT leaving Today

jkb said:
It seems that Viera is tired of the early morning routine that accompanies being on the Today show. Do you think this will provide CBS a way to rid itself of Katie on the national while increasing it's morning show ratings???

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/ENT07/708200315/1035/ENT
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Wow, a story, quoting a story, that qoutes unamed sources, and from that you have Katie going back to the Today show?
You must really really really hate Katie, to be cooking up that kind of a pipe dream (not to mention completely baseless rumor) from a story that is on a footing less stable than quicksand!
 
Don't hate Katie, but it would make sense. Find a younger Matt Laurer and put him beside Katie and let them build the ratings. While at the same time bringing in a real news person for the Evening News.
 
Yawns

First off, Katie is a real news person. OK, she isn't a booming voice-of-god. Ted Baxter was that. Katie will never go back to mornings. After awhile, she may go trotting off to spend 30 years on 60 Minutes, just like Morley/Mike/Ed/Dan/Lesley. When she's in her 70s, maybe she will host a daytime chatfest a la Barbara Walters, but the days of 3AM wakeups and gigglefests with wacky weathermen are over.

Also, the Katie News format is pretty much the same it was under Gunga Dan and Interim Bob. Katie tried something new. It failed. The consumers of restless-leg-syndrome-meds, denture adhesives, and room-air-fresheners all rebelled, sampled the other broadcasts, and ratings tanked (sort of). Actually I think NBC News is down more percentage-wise -- is Brian Williams headed for Today? Hardly.

Now the 22 minutes are pretty standard, save the wasteful 5 minutes given each week to "viewer voting" with Steve Hartmann. She even cut down the just-plain-awful appearances of Dr John LaKook to one every couple weeks rather than night after night after night.

Besides, the CBS Early Show will eventually fade away or just become a cut-in news service. Nearly every TV market in the US would rather have those two hours to add more local hours of local ken-and-barbie reading newswire, voicing over previously broadcast network stories, cooking with a local restauranteur, or hyping some big local event that the station is sponsoring.
 
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