Couric and CBS

[emilyg]

After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year.


Katie Couric and CBS are prepared for her early exit from the network.
Ms. Couric isn't even halfway through her five-year contract with CBS, which began in June 2006 and pays an annual salary of around $15 million. But CBS executives are under pressure to cut costs and improve ratings for the broadcast, which trails rival newscasts on ABC and NBC by wide margins.

Her departure would cap a difficult episode for CBS, which brought Ms. Couric to the network with considerable fanfare in a bid to catapult "Evening News" back into first place. Excluding several weeks of her tenure, Ms. Couric never bested the ratings of interim anchor Bob Schieffer, who


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[rurallib]

1. I heard Chris Matthews is available this June

Must be fate.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Everyone would knew this would happen....

Couric is dismal at what she does. She has no sense for things. When is the American media going to start hiring women who can do a really good job, rather than "pixie-looking women" that are pleasing to the eyes of males that want to watch some attractive female on the news, but who doesn't know what she's doing? You turn on the BBC and Le Journal and see that these have REAL-LOOKING females who do a great job and have personality. Meanwhile, we're stuck with anorexics with implants who all look alike and don't know what they're doing. Sad media we have.

[greenbriar]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3134590&mesg_id=3134590

[Clear Blue Sky]

4. She'll reappear on The View.

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. How about reporting real news

Now that would be a novel idea. Might even kick your news broadcasts back into top position.