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Katie Couric Negotiating ABC News Exit (Exclusive)
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11-22-13 | Marisa Guthrie

Posted on 11/22/2013 6:08:54 PM PST by dynachrome

Less than three years after joining ABC in a lucrative and wide-ranging deal that included a daytime talk show and a role at ABC News, Katie Couric is negotiating an exit package, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The move comes as Couric is close to finalizing an extensive deal with Internet giant Yahoo, according to multiple sources.

Couric's daytime talk show is in its second and almost certainly final season on ABC. She will complete the season and sources at Disney-ABC insist that a decision about the future of Katie will not be made until sometime in December after executives get a look at the November sweeps ratings.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; booted; couric; katiecouric; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; perky; yahoo
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I shed a tear.
1 posted on 11/22/2013 6:08:54 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Bye...............next


2 posted on 11/22/2013 6:09:26 PM PST by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: dynachrome

Boot meet Butt.


3 posted on 11/22/2013 6:09:48 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Huskrrrr

How much will they pay her to go away?


4 posted on 11/22/2013 6:10:58 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: dynachrome

Yahoo? My, how far the mighty have fallen ...


5 posted on 11/22/2013 6:12:22 PM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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To: dynachrome
Poor Katie...she's just not perky any more.
6 posted on 11/22/2013 6:12:55 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: GeronL

“How much will they pay her to go away?”

More than she’s worth. In other words, anything they pay her.


7 posted on 11/22/2013 6:13:00 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: hinckley buzzard

Mate, they stopped being perky years ago.


8 posted on 11/22/2013 6:14:21 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: dynachrome

Let’s hope she ends up in the same place as Sold-out O’brien


9 posted on 11/22/2013 6:14:24 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: dynachrome

Wait, I thought Couric was dead. Maybe it’s just her career that’s dead!


10 posted on 11/22/2013 6:14:35 PM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: dynachrome

I can see her now, standing at an intersection, destitute, holding her “WILL TALK FOR FOOD” sign.


11 posted on 11/22/2013 6:15:22 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: dynachrome

I call this on Deadline Hollyweird forum when being rumor about Katie may be leaving in May

Rumor has is ABC stations want drop her like hot potato they are contracted this like nice way tell Katie don’t let door hit on your big butt


12 posted on 11/22/2013 6:15:42 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: dynachrome

i have some used motor oil from my truck i’ll give her to go away


13 posted on 11/22/2013 6:16:12 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: Viennacon

Don’t say that

I don’t think Al Jazeera America offer her gig she is that not good

Solieded O’Brien is good with docuemtantires


14 posted on 11/22/2013 6:16:31 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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Yahoo? My, how far the mighty have fallen ...

Yet, ABC paid her a fortune to sign up...and will pay her millions to go away...and Yahoo will give her more millions for yet another failure-in-the-making.

In other words, while she's falling, Katie is raking in the dough...

15 posted on 11/22/2013 6:18:43 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: dynachrome

The woman has a poor track record. Never stays in a job for long. In my day, going from job to job didn’t look good on the resume.


16 posted on 11/22/2013 6:19:06 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: dynachrome

Who says this talentless fluff isn’t a media-hopping whore?

She was a lightweight “perky” woman when she started out and still is, but a little less “perky” and more like a “turkey”.

Jumping from one lucrative contract after another reminds me of a prostitute moving from one corner to another, looking for higher paying “johns”.

So many people out of work or underemployed and this clown gets millions from stupid mainstream media networks, and now Yahoo.

Now you know what is wrong with our country.


17 posted on 11/22/2013 6:20:19 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SevenofNine

I was sort of hoping she’d get kidnapped while reporting in Basra


18 posted on 11/22/2013 6:20:41 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: dynachrome

Yes, it certainly seems likely they are easing her out.

Here’s an article from last month on her diving ratings, predicting that she would soon be gone:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/katie-courics-talk-show-teetering-645257


19 posted on 11/22/2013 6:21:43 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dynachrome

I fail to understand why anyone would ever hire this proved failure. She Is a cancer and ratings nightmare everywhere she goes. It is a vast waste of money to hire this woman.

Note to TV and entertainment executives: It is not 1986 and what was once perky and cute is droopy and old!


20 posted on 11/22/2013 6:22:49 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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