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Super Bowl Pregame Slot for Katie Couric
AP via SFGate ^ | 1/18/7

Posted on 01/18/2007 8:03:09 PM PST by SmithL

Pasadena -- Katie Couric's going to the Super Bowl.

The "CBS Evening News" anchor will contribute a feature to CBS' four-hour Super Bowl pregame show on Feb. 4, the network said on Thursday. She will also anchor the evening news from Miami, the site of the big game, on the Friday before the game.

There's precedent at other networks for the news anchors to be involved in sports coverage, including Brian Williams and Couric during NBC's Olympic broadcasts, said Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports.

"It is the biggest event of the day and it makes sense for us to showcase what she does before the biggest audience of the year," McManus said. Couric's evening newscast is in third place in the ratings behind NBC and ABC.

She's tentatively scheduled to do a feature on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his Korean heritage.

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


TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; couric; katie; katiecouric; legacymedia; perky; seebs; superbowl; viacommie; wardrobemalfunction
Then, she's going to Disneyland.
1 posted on 01/18/2007 8:03:13 PM PST by SmithL
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To: abb; scott says

This'll make your day.


2 posted on 01/18/2007 8:03:48 PM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: SmithL

THE SUPERBOWL.........Where everybody wears skirts!

3 posted on 01/18/2007 8:05:47 PM PST by A Citizen Reporter
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To: SmithL

She's going to participate by having her own "wardrobe malfunction." However, knowing Katie's penchant for the rear, she'll probably do something with her pants (or whatever she decides to wear).


4 posted on 01/18/2007 8:08:09 PM PST by indcons (On my FReeper home page: Muslim rave party in Qom, Iran)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

*Barf Alert* ping...


5 posted on 01/18/2007 8:08:47 PM PST by nutmeg (I Support Our Troops and VICTORY in Iraq)
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To: nutmeg

Yet another reason for the average American to avoid the “Super Bowl”


6 posted on 01/18/2007 8:14:40 PM PST by doc1019
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To: SmithL
Desperation move. It must be worse than imagined over at CBS. What are they thinking pushing Perky on the rowdies who look forward to the SuperBowl all year? They're just begging to be humiliated, I think.
7 posted on 01/18/2007 8:25:34 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: SmithL

Katie will be easy to spot at the Superbowl. She'll be playing "Tight End"...

8 posted on 01/18/2007 9:12:29 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: SmithL; TigerLikesRooster; xsmommy; beyond the sea
She's tentatively scheduled to do a feature on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his Korean heritage.

She'll take a story about a class act and turn it into weepy, maudlin, cliched tripe.

I want to hurt her. Badly.

9 posted on 01/18/2007 9:39:05 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: melt

This time, they need to run the roto-rooter in from the other direction. That should shut her up for a little while.


10 posted on 01/18/2007 9:43:42 PM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: A Citizen Reporter

Reminds me of 'The Flying Nun' (Sally Fields) with pom poms.


11 posted on 01/18/2007 9:47:33 PM PST by beyond the sea ( World Ending - Children and The Poor Hit Hardest)
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To: A Citizen Reporter
What school was that............... Youngstown?

;-)

12 posted on 01/18/2007 9:49:05 PM PST by beyond the sea ( World Ending - Children and The Poor Hit Hardest)
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To: SmithL

Just when you think CBS can't go no lower. Trying to jam the winch down our throats.


13 posted on 01/18/2007 10:24:07 PM PST by ustanker (The cave dwellers are happy!)
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To: SmithL
She's tentatively scheduled to do a feature on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and his Korean heritage.

Oh, puh-leeze - how far did they have to stretch to get the correct PC angle for Katie the Commie to opine about.

14 posted on 01/18/2007 11:22:26 PM PST by mcenedo (lying liberal media - our most dangerous and powerful enemy)
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To: martin_fierro

this is so low, and so typical.


15 posted on 01/19/2007 3:44:48 AM PST by xsmommy
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