CBS exec: "How long was that contract?"
Posted on 09/12/2006 8:29:45 AM PDT by abb
ANTICIPOINTMENT: CBS 'EVENING NEWS' WITH COURIC KNOCKED TO 3RD IN MONDAY ROMP; NBC 'NIGHTLY' TAKES BACK TOP SPOT WITH 5.8 RATING/11 SHARE, IN OVERNIGHT METERED MARTS, AFTER COURIC DEBUT WEEK DRAMA... ABC 'WORLD' FINISHED SECOND MONDAY WITH 5.7/11 SHARE TO CBS COURIC 5.4/10... DEVELOPING..
Well that was money well spent by CBS. /s
CBS?
Katie couric?
Who?
Are her numbers better or worse than Schieffer's?
Bring back Bob Schieffer.
I don't think the American people take her seriously and a hard news anchor. That is, if anyone still watches the nightly news anymore.
That would be "See B.S."....
RLTW
Hey, us quilters want to see a "Krafting with Katie" segment!
IIRC, Schieffer pretty much held serve as the top show. So we can infer his ratings were better (although I don't have the numbers at my fingertips).
CBS exec: "How long was that contract?"
Goes to show you that CBS should not have gone with someone with the highest journalistic qualifications and experience. :-)
Well, everybody went to look at Miz Couric on her first night and, of course, Rush. After that, well, everybody has seen her and Rush isn't on again.
All this over a teleprompter reader. Amazing!
I wonder who'll be the first to cry sexism??
We should start a couple of pools.
How long will she keep the sole anchor slot?
How many millions will CBS pay to buy out her contract?
When she becomes a roving reporter, will they assign her to Outer Mongolia or Inner Mongolia?
Looks like this morning's NYT puff piece on Moonves might turn out to be his obit...
A Tortoise Savors the Lead (CBS/Moonves/Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699892/posts?page=22#22
When Kaite's contract is up and she asks for a raise I think CBS should borrow a line from Branch Rickey who said it best to Ralph Kiner:
"We finished last with you and we can finish last without you."
Bob was a thousand times better than Katie... I don't know what the hell the people at CBS were thinking...
Take a person whos made a career being a perky puff piece... and put her in the anchor chair... then continue bias reporting that got you in trouble in the first place and turn the show into even more fluff....
CBS just refuses to admit its problems. Bob was doing well in the chair, and if the powers that be had a clue they would have worked at even handed reporting and stopped making sure every time they did a story no matter what it was... going out and finding the 1 person who objected to to it no matter how insane they were and giving that view point "equal time" as though some sole nuts opinion weighs as much as the lifetime pros in the area of interest being reported on.
A report on ANWAR and the economic effects it would have to drill there on the Innuit doesn't need to have 1/3 of the time dedicated to stupid envirowackos claims of a pipeline ruining the land.....
etc etc etc...
I stand by my offer CBS.. give me complete control of your news division for 6 months.. I'll work for $1 and if you ratings aren't equal or higher than they are now, I'll walk... if they are though, I want $20 Mill on the spot. YOu have to give me complete autonomy.. hiring, firing, editorial etc etc etc... No undermining, no backstabbing.... etc.
They'll keep her in the anchor slot for at least a year. If her ratings don't improve, they just won't renew. Is her contract a one or multi year contract?
You can put lipstick on a Pig....
It's sexism, I tell you!
Network news is dead
I remember Couric back in 2000, and I was watching NBC coverage late into the night. And when it was announced they were giving FL officially to Bush she threw a tantrum in front of Brokaw, and she said something like "that is premature." I am sure some of you remember that.
And this can only get worse at this point...
Is Katie Colon the "editor" of her news broadcast? Is she responsible for the stories that are covered or is she just the "news reader"? What she considers news is fluff. She is ruining CBS news. She does not have the "bones" to give the broadcast gravitas.
That's a bit like asking a scorpion not to sting isn't it?
Guys might watch: "The CBS Evening News, with Katie Couric, Topless."*
Put in a call to EIB. Maybe Rush can bump her ratings again.
What Katie needs is a co-anchor, I suggest they bring Bryant Gumble over from the NFL Network and give him $15 million a year too.
Hey, I just wanna help!
Katie Couric Topless?
WHY??!??!??!???
Jeez, she's 50 for crying out loud.... no one needs to be seeing what 50 years of gravity and no bra equals.
The anchor traditionally has the title of Managing Editor also. Whoever has that title has final say on what is aired.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/06/eveningnews/bios/main1781520.shtml
Give her a raise and a long-term contract!!!!! ha ha!!!
Agreed.
I liked Schieffer.
I rarely watch his nightly newscast, but that's because they overdosed on liberal propaganda. Had they just dialed back their partisanship and kept him in the anchor chair, I'd have watched fairly regularly.
Katie's a lightweight that CBS thinks has enough star power to lift its network. No, people like the chemistry between Katie & Matt and were accustomed to watching Today. Plus she used to be more perky then bitter. Well, she doesn't have the Today show. She doesn't have Matt. She's no longer perky, and her legs don't really belong on Nightly news.
So what's left is an aging Leftist that offers nothing distinct from the other two networks.
Oh you know damned well as the Katie titanic goes sinking the blame will not be with her, the CBS news staff or anyone else at CBS... it will all be because of those indiot hick sexist yokels in the red states.
Liberals never take responsibility for their own shortcomings... its always someone elses fault.
"Swing low, swe-e-e-t chariot..." I'll pass; thanks.
Here's the plan... Slip a couple of outrageous racial ephitets into the teleprompter feed. Perkie Katie will read them onto the air live, and then they can fire her for cause!
Not funny. Is that what you do - go around making fun of things having to do with people's spouses dying?
She will bring in the ratings when Hillary runs and especially if she wins.
Moonves is going to eat $#@$ on this one. HAH!
LOL! Yeah, you're helping...in the same way one might throw an anvil to a drwoning man!
............he, he, he....!!! yes, laffin' my
butt-end off at that....!!! I am reminded of the
British press after Mr. Bush won his last Presidential
race over Mr. "Hero of the Vietnam War" John Kerry....
same results.... "you absolutely stupid, idiot, backwards Americans....how could you have chosen this rube over Mr.
Kerry, etc."....... just wait until the American viewing
public starts asking "Katie Who...???" we'll be a bunch
of idiot dunces who didn't "deserve" a news anchor such
as "Katie the Colon" ............
What the networks and Couric don't undertand is that people don't like their left wing rants and liberal bias.
They will remain #3 and the total viewership will continue to drop.
She's 50, are you sure? She's pretty well preserved then.
Yea, she's like 49... Botox does wonders don't it?
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