CBS EVENING NEWS FALLS TO ALL-TIME LOW; 5,180,000 VIEWERS FOR COURIC

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[NorCoGOP]

Linked at Drudge:

EVENING NEWS RACE
WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2009

NBC 7,960,000

ABC 7,150,000

CBS 5,180,000*

*Lowest Total Viewer delivery since NIELSEN records kept

[NorCoGOP]

Finally...news about a Liberal we can only smile about.

Keep up the good work Katie...take CBS off the air with you...

[Principled]

Jeez. What a shame.

[Nabber]

Alert: Couric Death Watch....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I remember when CBS was the gold standard in broadcast news.

[GonzoGOP]

Just for grins how does that compare to the cable networks?

[a fool in paradise]

"Courage."

[Mr. K]

Must be time to give her another raise to ‘show their confidence’

Any other industry they FIRE people for massive incompetance like this.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Perhaps on-air crying session could boost its rating.:-)

[Fred911]

kinda hard to watch a news show that is a propaganda machine for BO......

[Sloth]

Well, the pyrite standard, anyway.

[rwa265]

That’s the way it was.

[Ceoman]

isn’t she getting married to her 35 year old boyfriend? Perhaps she is distracted!

[bilhosty]

This is what happens when you hire a shill just because you think we wont beat up on her because of her sex and her personna.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Maybe they should have Billy Mays or the ShamWOW guy do the news?

[TigerLikesRooster]

She has a boy toy, too?

[EGPWS]

What, my favorite female dog?

Say it isn't so! : - D

[IrishPennant]

Or stop leaning to the left. Works for Fox!

You would think they would want to follow a successful model...although I am sure the marching orders of the highest execs still come from elsewhere.

[Tzimisce]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Why don’t you do another story on how great the Obamas are Katie? That’ll bring it back. :)

[Zeppelin]

Let’s see...Katie’s being paid $15 million/yr to pull in just over 5 million viewers...methinks someone is overpaid...

[EGPWS]

Jeez. What a shame.

Yeah, life will never be the same.../s

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It’s a pure pyrite play today.

[Jagman]

I thought the all-time low was her Palin interview (badda boom!)

[DoughtyOne]

When she started including personal human interest stories, as part of the evening news broadcast, I knew it was only a matter of time.

Her first night she explained that she saw her job as needing to educate the American public.

Looks like Katie is getting the education.

[coconut47]

Katie, pay backs a b***ch ain’t it

[WakeUpAndVote]

[Political Junkie Too]

It doesn't matter.

Couric got her award for taking out Sarah Palin.

Just like Krugman got his award for taking out Bush's economics.

Just like Gore got his award...

-PJ

[Prokopton]

Still a lot more viewers than any show on Fox news or any other non-MSM news show. The influence of the MSM continues to be dominant.

[Shaka]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

[P-Marlowe]

Any other industry they FIRE people for massive incompetance like this.

And in some industries they fire people for spelling errors.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Couldn’t happen to a nicer whack left liberal!....

[Sundog]

Katie needs to do a lot more coverage of the Lingerie Football League if she wants her ratings to improve.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

[RckyRaCoCo]

Perhaps another on-air anal exam would help?

Oh, that's right...anyone stupid enough to watch her garbage gets one every night.

(BTW, so no one is watching???...does that mean that poor dog gets shot?...the b*&%$)

[mojitojoe]

Gee that really breaks my heart/s

[dead]

[Loud Mime]

My favorite line of that war was when somebody called that guy “Comical Ali”

[theDentist]

Shouldn’t they be walking Kewpie to the door, blindfold and cigarette at the ready?

[BerniesFriend]

I know what can save perky katie..if only she can discover documents from Sarah Palin’s former commander in the Alaskan National Guard saying that Sarah is a terrible soldier who spends all her time shopping for fancy clothes for her and her kids..of course this would be dated back in 1972..what can possibly go wrong????

[conservativebuckeye]

I think it was Bernie Goldberg who made a really good point about Katie awhile back. He compared her to cereal. It’s good in the morning, but in the evening you want something a little more filling. At the time I thought hiring Couric was a terrible business decision. They could’ve just promoted one of their run of the mill field reporters for a fraction of Couric’s salary and probably gotten slightly higher ratings.

[mapmaker77]

Rush is right again. For the NY/DC elite msm types, it’s not about ratings or viewership because regular folks aren’t the intended audience. The only audience they are interested in is each other.
I can only think of one word to describe it...
INCEST.

[JPG]

Couric brings new meaning to the word: SUCKS.

[Brookhaven]

Let’s see...Katie’s being paid $15 million/yr to pull in just over 5 million viewers...methinks someone is overpaid...

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About 1 cent per viewer per broadcast (or $1 for each 100 viewers.)

That’s a huge number when you think about it. Are their advertisers making $1 per 100 viewers per broadcast? They are very likely losing money just on her pay alone?

[my small voice]

hahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brookhaven]

Yea, but aren’t these companies publicly owned? Where are the stockholders?

If I owned stock in a company that continually made dumb moves that lost money, I’d be up in arms. Where is the Indiana retirement funds? Don’t they own any CBS stock?

[a fool in paradise]

Comical warfare.

[Southack]

So she’s being paid $3 per viewer now?

[NorCoGOP]

C'mon everyone...isn't it obvious what's going to happen?

She is being paid the most ever to produce the worst results in history....

In other words, Katie is soon to be tapped to run the US Health Care program...

Perfect grooming.

[central_va]

Sept ‘08

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 3,034,000 viewers
CNN –1,568,000 viewers
MSNBC-1,521,000 viewers
CNBC –165,000 viewers
HLN – 831,000 viewers

[doug from upland]

Katie’s colonoscopy sing-along on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWz0opVqO0