NBC PREPARED TO PAY CURRY $10 MILLION TO EXIT

[gregg75]

Parting is such sweet sorrow.......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/ann-curry-today-nbc-news-exit_n_1623842.html

 

[Mark Giardina]

My advice: Take the money and run!

If Ann Curry wants to remain in news there are plenty of other networks she could apply for both on OTA and cable television.

Some national news anchors have even settled for jobs in big city markets. Maybe this is something Ann Curry should also consider.

 

[radiophiler]

Why can't they give her an hour to do the type of news show she would be more comfortable with on MSNBC? I think it might be a good fit. A dayside show, maybe directly before or after Andrea Mitchell's?

OK, maybe the host of Today was a bad fit for her. But surely NBC can find something else that fits her better.

Would CNN be interested? Deep six the Anderson repeat at 10 pm and let her be a solo news anchor/interviewer?

Or, maybe she doesn't even want an anchor spot. A senior foreign correspondent for CNN?

 

[ding12]

Why can't they give her an hour to do the type of news show she would be more comfortable with on MSNBC? I think it might be a good fit. A dayside show, maybe directly before or after Andrea Mitchell's?

OK, maybe the host of Today was a bad fit for her. But surely NBC can find something else that fits her better.

I think from NBC's perspective, it's like ripping out a band-aid in terms of breaking the contract.

Then again, ABC and Elizabeth Vargas somehow worked it an arrangement, even though she was sort of demoted losing the World News Tonight anchor desk.

My advice: Take the money and run!

If Ann Curry wants to remain in news there are plenty of other networks she could apply for both on OTA and cable television.

Some national news anchors have even settled for jobs in big city markets. Maybe this is something Ann Curry should also consider.

I'm guessing not an NBC O&O station.

 

[1069_KIFR]

Get a Conan Deal!!!

 

[1069_KIFR]

Hey Meredith Vierra! Who's a Millionaire!?

 

[1069_KIFR]

Just Like David Letterman said (during the Leno/O'Brien debactle), "If they don't want you, take your dog and pony show across the street and make them regret their decision" Or something to that effect.

 

[Mark Giardina]

Just Like David Letterman said (during the Leno/O'Brien debactle), "If they don't want you, take your dog and pony show across the street and make them regret their decision" Or something to that effect.

We're talking apples and oranges here. Letterman is a talk show host and CBS wanted him to go up against Leno because of the controversy surrounding the Tonight Show debacle. Also CBS wanted their own late night talk show and who better to host it than the guy who got screwed by NBC?

Curry is a newscaster / interviewer for a morning program who doesn't have one-tenth the popularity or following that Letterman has.

It is very unlikely that Good Morning America would want Curry.

Perhaps her best chance is to try CBS This Morning. But that would mean getting rid of one of the current female hosts. However CBS is notorious for changing their morning show format, so who knows what may happen in the future.

Meanwhile the idea put forth by another poster to replace Curry with Robin Meade is ridiculous . Today Show executive are looking for someone who can interview people on a regular basis. All Meade does is read from a teleprompter. Good looks can only go so far.

Just take the ten million and run!

 

[brian4]

Conan gets $33 million, Curry gets $10. NBC must have DEEP pockets

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I say steal Anderson Cooper from CNN as a replacement!

 

[1069_KIFR]

Just Like David Letterman said (during the Leno/O'Brien debactle), "If they don't want you, take your dog and pony show across the street and make them regret their decision" Or something to that effect.

We're talking apples and oranges here. Letterman is a talk show host and CBS wanted him to go up against Leno because of the controversy surrounding the Tonight Show debacle. Also CBS wanted their own late night talk show and who better to host it than the guy who got screwed by NBC?

Curry is a newscaster / interviewer for a morning program who doesn't have one-tenth the popularity or following that Letterman has.

It is very unlikely that Good Morning America would want Curry.

Perhaps her best chance is to try CBS This Morning. But that would mean getting rid of one of the current female hosts. However CBS is notorious for changing their morning show format, so who knows what may happen in the future.

Meanwhile the idea put forth by another poster to replace Curry with Robin Meade is ridiculous . Today Show executive are looking for someone who can interview people on a regular basis. All Meade does is read from a teleprompter. Good looks can only go so far.

Just take the ten million and run!

Calm down. I was talking about a quote Letterman was saying during the Leno/O'Brien fiasco. The quote relates to anyone being pushed out of their job. If you're not wanted, take your services elsewhere and be a thorn in their a$$. That's all.

 

[Mark Giardina]

Calm down. I was talking about a quote Letterman was saying during the Leno/O'Brien fiasco. The quote relates to anyone being pushed out of their job. If you're not wanted, take your services elsewhere and be a thorn in their a$$. That's all.

Believe me I am calm and I get your point; do you get mine?

Letterman already had the CBS job locked up when he made that statement, which by the way I happen to agree with. But the point I was trying to make is that one (in this case Ann Curry) needs to have another gig lined up first, which Curry does not.

With no disrespect to Ann Curry, once she leaves The Today Show she, like many others, will become a footnote in TV history unless she manages to find another job that can show case her talents.

 

[Markxxx]

What she fails to understand is people DON'T LIKE HER.

She may be the most competent person in journalism today. But she's also a TV anchor and liability trumps everything else. Because they can hire a journalist to work behind the likable anchor.

It's like Fred Allen. He was a very funny man in radio. I loved him on OTR, but there was something unlikable about him on TV. His humor was not funny because he came across badly on TV.

He wasn't likable on TV basically, even though his humor was the same.

 

[Bob1370]

"What she fails to understand is people DON'T LIKE HER."

That's hard to believe, given that they liked her for over a decade and a half at the Today anchor desk. My guess is that the Today show has a lot of factors causing it to fall into a tie with ABC, not the least of which may be that Matt Lauer isn't the sharp young host he used to be when he started his long tenure on the show and may be wearing out his welcome just like Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Jim Hartz, John Chancellor and Dave Garroway did before him after similarly long runs. (I don't count Frank McGee in that lineup because he passed away before he could rack up a sufficiently long tenure to exceed the "sell by" date.) Even the best hosts don't last forever. The best of them move on to the evening anchor desk where longevity is greater. Since NBC and ABC are set at the dinner hour, maybe Ann Curry should think of other venues--either one of the big cable nets, or quite frankly, CBS, since Scott Pelley, good reporter that he is, hasn't budged the needle from the low audience he inherited from Katie Couric...and Ms. Curry might be a good fit at the CBS anchor desk. Just sayin'...

 

[Mark Giardina]

maybe Ann Curry should think of other venues--either one of the big cable nets, or quite frankly, CBS, since Scott Pelley, good reporter that he is, hasn't budged the needle from the low audience he inherited from Katie Couric...and Ms. Curry might be a good fit at the CBS anchor desk. Just sayin'...

I think Scott Pelley is doing a good job as anchor. Remember it is tough to raise a sinking ship and CBS Evening News has been underwater for a number of years starting with Dan Rather and ending with Katie Couric.

As for Ann Curry anchoring the CBS Evening News, that duck won't fly. Her best bet is trying for a job on CBS's Early Morning Show (or what ever it is called these days) or trying her luck on cable.

 

[ding12]

I can't see CBS wanting Ann Curry for Early Show right now. They just rebooted that program and I think CBS is fine with Erica Hill and Gayle King. Daytime TV is saturated and the push is to have more entertainer/celebrity hosts rather than news journalists.

At one time, The View had Meredith Viera and Lisa Ling, and Star Jones' credentials were her being a lawyer.

Now, The View has 4 co-hosts from the entertainment background, and The Talk is mostly the same at a notch lower in intelligence.

I'd say her best bet if she wants to stay onscreen is CNN or a top news market like San Franscisco or Washington DC, probably not an O&O, and of course in a city she wants to live in.

 

[Mario500]

As for Ann Curry anchoring the CBS Evening News, that duck won't fly. Her best bet is trying for a job on CBS's Early Morning Show (or what ever it is called these days) or trying her luck on cable.

I can't see CBS wanting Ann Curry for Early Show right now. They just rebooted that program and I think CBS is fine with Erica Hill and Gayle King. Daytime TV is saturated and the push is to have more entertainer/celebrity hosts rather than news journalists.
or Washington DC, probably not an O&O, and of course in a city she wants to live in.

The correct current name of the program is "CBS This Morning".

 

[firepoint525]

If Ann Curry could parlay interviewing the McCaughey septuplets into a full-time gig, she'd be set for life! :

 

[pab]

The correct current name of the program is "CBS This Morning".

...this week. Next week, who knows?

The best bet CBS might make for their morning show would be to title it "Captain Kangaroo," but I doubt Ann Curry would want that job either. Probably afraid of ping pong balls.