LOL!! Rating disaster for CBS with Katie Couric.

Drudge Report ^ | 17 OCT 06 | dcbryan1

[DCBryan1]

I really, really hope Rush Limbaugh sees and picks this up today.

COURIC: CBS 'EVENING NEWS' RATINGS DISASTER
Monday, Oct. 16, 2006

NEW YORK CITY
WABC 7.1
WNBC 5.3
WCBS 3.7

LOS ANGELES
KABC 5.9
KNBC 3.1
KCBS 1.5

WASHINGTON, DC
NBC 9.3
ABC 7.8
CBS 2.5

[DCBryan1]

LOL...schardenfreud indeed.

[GQuagmire]

D'oh.....

[pipecorp]

the herpetical katie couric.

[Tenacious 1]

Who is Katey Couric?

[razorback-bert]

Boy, LA really doesn't like her.

[Petronski]

Bad news for Qaty al-Khouriq is good news for America.

[kellynla]

Does anyone know what See B.S.' ratings were before Couric arrived?

[Sacajaweau]

But Katie is so kute.

[Fred911]

Who would have thunk it?

[Greek]

Perhaps LA Cs BS....

[gridlock]

That's not a ratings disaster... That's a ratings melt-down!

You get numbers like that just from people who forget to turn the TV off!

I knew it was bad. But who knew it was this bad?

[theDentist]

Who is Katey Couric?

Some woman who's applying for a job to dance on table tops for spare change...

[AppyPappy]

[Socratic]

Upon losing the Emmy Award: "You don't like me. You REALLY don't like me!"

[gridlock]

Does anyone know what See B.S.' ratings were before Couric arrived?

They were typically in third place, but they were in the neighborhood. They aren't even competitive anymore.

[TommyDale]

"Does anyone know what See B.S.' ratings were before Couric arrived?"

I think they could have hired Gray Davis and received better ratings.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Katie can get her ratings up if she let's us get a glance at her colon again.

Btw, I wonder if Michael Savages' ratings will drop now that he and his wife gave to Moonbeam Brown.

I was hysterical listening to Mark Levin rip Weiner a new one last night.

[Tenacious 1]

She needs to be more emotional about her passions and persuasions. This will help ratings.

[gridlock]

Time for CBS to slip some racial epithets into the teleprompter feed, so she will mindless read them onto the air and they can fire her for cause.

[longtermmemmory]

WOW!

Thos Wash DC numbers tell the tale!

Leftist Couric Looses LARGE!

[sarasota]

That is a classic!

[Miss Marple]

No, first we have to have the changing of sets, outfits, and hairdos due to focus groups! I refuse to let her go before we can see her tricked out in some goofy outfit whith a "cuter" hairdo and a newer, jazzier set!

And maybe she could be forced to interview Madonna!! LOL!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

I know they don't want her back at the Today show. The Diva has suddenly become a lot of dead weight for CBS.

[george76]

[evets]

Kutie Katie

[Moonman62]

Thirty years ago.

[IndyTiger]

The CBS execs forgot that Katie's primary audience of soccer moms in their nightgowns doesn't transfer over very well to a nightly newscast. Maybe if she did a cooking segment or celebrity interview....

[Red Badger]

SUITS: Katie, we've got a problem.

KATIE: Well, what do you expect ME to do about it?

SUITS: For starters, How about showing a little "cleavage"?.....

[Brett66]

So I wonder if the Today show has better ratings now?

[maggief]

[evets]

Official schadenfreude logo:

[Red Badger]

Maybe if she did a cooking segment or celebrity interview....

That what she IS doing!........

[1Old Pro]

I saw Katie for the first time last night, in all honesty it was worse than I imagined, just awful. Hard to watch even 5 minutes and in that 5 minutes she took a shot at Bush. What an embarrassment to CBS.

[NavyCanDo]

DOA.

Sure was allot of wasted publicity when it was announced she would be taking over as news anchor. I don't remember that kind of publicity since Johnny Carson was replaced.

[evets]

[RedEyeJack]

How much are they paying her again... Obviously "not enough".

[maggief]

[The_Victor]

I can't figure out why anyone would prefer one big 3 news production over the others. I don't watch any of them because they're all listing equally to the left.

[Sloth]

Wow, those numbers are terrible. I guess Eva Braun isn't even affable any more.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

We are debating the over-under dates when she'll drop the jacket (and bra) and go for the silk-blouse-under-studio-lights effect ....

Worked for Cher.

[RayChuang88]

Who wants to watch the evening network news broadcasts when you can get news far faster on the cable news channels and the public Internet?

[reagan_fanatic]

I think Her Perkyness is starting to droop a little.

[God luvs America]

wait...but Wally Cronkite thought it was a good idea!

[Loud Mime]

Boy, LA really doesn't like her.

Que?

[Miss Marple]

LOL! First will come the new hairdo. I expect lowlights, to tone down the blonde, and shorter, "serious" hair, a la Hillary.

Then the dropping the jacket, and then the new set. Also some new "features".

Then they will send her to special locations.

Heheheh.

[monkapotamus]

[Ditter]

I watched the perky one for my first and only time last week just to see her clothes, hair style and make up. She was worse than awful. She appeared to be in a coma, at least in her morning spot she had some enthusiasm and vitality. What a bore, but then I wouldn't have watched again no matter how good she was.

[deport]

If she keeps floundering then at some point CBS willl have to replace her. I'd just as soon she keep the job. So best wishes to her and may her 3rd place position continued to be secured.

[kellynla]

I don't know whose brilliant idea it was to pay this airhead 20Mil a year to read a teleprompter for twenty minutes a night, five nights a week but whoever it was SHOULD BE FIRED!

[ustanker]

Turn out the lights!