Good Night and Good Grief!
Posted on 09/14/2006 7:13:10 AM PDT by MindBender26
Couric Furious At CBS Suits. She Claims "They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."
Katie Couric is not a happy camper this morning. The Suits at CBS have sent a strong signal throughout the news department that they have already lost faith in her. Here are the details as reported to me this AM from an old friend at West 57th.
(Here beginnith the First Lesson.)
“Promos” (short for promotional announcements) are advertisements a station or network runs to promote their own programs. A 30 second televised message advertising Veg-O-Matic is called a “spot” (short for spot advertisement.) A 30 second message advertising the CBS Evening News is called a “promo.”
Promos are the lifeblood of an individual high-profile anchor’s ratings. The commercial time committed to promos is directly linked to increased ratings.
If a station or network has faith in a rising star reporter or anchor, they will run a “heavy rotation” of promos for that person. Likewise, if the network suits have little faith in the anchor, that personality will receive few promos.
Why not give everyone plenty of promos? It’s simple; there are only so many minutes available to run promos and spots during a 24 hour period. Every time a network airs a promo, they abandon the revenue that would have been produced by a commercial run during that same time period.
(Here endith the First Lesson)
Well… a new promo schedule has just been circulated at CBS, and Perky’s promo time is WAY down. Both the frequency and desirability of time of airing have been cut drastically. This is a clear sign that the Suits have read the tea leaves and are already abandoning Perky.
Some reduction was expected after her first week but a CBS insider described the cuts as “drastic” and “approaching abandonment.” In her words, “we would give more promo time to a “safe Halloween trick-or-treating” story than Katie is going to get.
Another horribly negative comment is now accepted as fact at CBS: “Sure, some people are going to watch us/her now, but can you imagine anyone having a choice between us and Charlie Gibson on ABC going with us if/when there is another terrorist attack?”
Already some other anchors’ agents are smelling blood in the water. The big guessing game at Black Rock is now, “Which power agent is having lunch with which CBS Suit today.”
P.S. Rather is working overtime on his new satellite- fed dinky cable show. Editors who have seen first drafts of story treatments say it is WAY over the top, sort of a "Howard Beale on LSD reading Rolling Stone straight to camera, with a Texas accent" concept.
More as available.
Must have been faked ... if she did the prep, she wouldn't be smiling. Grimacing, maybe, but not smiling.
"KIck em while they're up, kick up when they're down, we need dirty laundry..."
American males are afraid of strong women.
Buyer's remorse?
What did CBS think they were getting?
the Katy promos are running here during Brit's show.
I thinking they are fisning in a coal mine.
Courics B S !!!
Katie, join Jane Fonda and the other old hags on the radio......let's see how long that lasts.....if The View is still in play, you could join Rosie and Barb!!
sheesh....
I thought she'd last close to a year at least. This makes it sound much worse than that.
LOL. That's great.
I'd love to see one of those with Helen Thomas as the alien.
They better keep their grubby leftist hands off of Brit. Brit's FNC show is about the only news show I watch any more.
"P.S. Rather is working overtime on his new satellite- fed dinky cable show. Editors who have seen first drafts of story treatments say it is WAY over the top, sort of a "Howard Beale on LSD reading Rolling Stone straight to camera, with a Texas accent" concept.'
LOL!
Awwwwwwww. . . . give her a chance. She hasn't even done a story of the baby seals yet.
Scoping for Dollars.
It's really going to be fun watching her try to do election night coverage, we may get to see a full-scale nervous breakdown live on TV.
CBS having someone fair would be a shock. Ms. Couric is a prima donna. She is so full of herself, it's obvious even to liberals. Not too many level headed persons want to watch that BS. Just my opinion.
LOL - actually I miss Michael Rivero and Uncle Bill - a lot.
She said something like "I'll be here tomorrow. I hope you will, too."
She really had a pleading tone. I almost felt sorry for her, but suddenly I couldn't stop laughing.
OK, she's figured out her sign-off then. She's going to beg for viewers. Well, I won't be one of them. Total waste of my time that would be.
One more point to make - I guess one of the lessons Madam Couric missed out on during her time in the TV/entertainment business is to take heed of the old advice in show biz - "Be nice to everybody on your way up to the top, because you'll meet 'em again on the way down." Since, by all accounts, she's typically bitchy behind the scenes, I can't see too many of her CBS co-workers being too nice to her during this period of demise.
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