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The fifth week was the toughest for Katie Couric, whose viewership on the "CBS Evening News" has dropped each week since her debut the day after Labor Day. Her broadcast averaged 7.04 million viewers last week, third to NBC's "Nightly News" (8.56 million) and ABC's "World News" (7.97 million), according to Nielsen Media Research. CBS points out that the "CBS Evening News" is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier. NBC's margin of victory last year was 2.2 million. "Where we were last week or even in...

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Well, I gave Katie a chance...an honest chance. I watched her debut and I watched her tonight, since Rush was on. Not a damn thing has changed except the gender of the person in the anchor chair. The leftist drivel is a joke. Tonight, perky Katie apparently believes a 5 or 6 year old video tape of Useless never-bin-Laiden is a triumph of terror over Bush's liberation of 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. The BIG LEAD of the night was something like "On a day when the President says we're safer in the war on terror, Al...

Live thread for the anti-Bush bashing. It's bad tonight. But, Rush should be on.

I think it's really her!

July 29, 2006 -- KATIE Couric had fellow passengers aboard a New York-bound jet on the warpath this week when, as their plane was about to taxi to the runway, she got out of her seat and begged the pilot to allow one of her late-arriving producers to board. ........ The witness told Page Six that attendants on Wednesday's 6:30 p.m. Delta Shuttle flight out of Washington, D.C., had already closed the door and passengers were buckled in, when the soon-to-be CBS News anchor raced up the aisle with a cellphone to her ear and told an attendant she had...

It's time to watch the Today Show. The best news the annoying perky one could get is that her old show is doing better without her. Then, after a week or two, stop watching again. FreeRepMates Unite!

DAILY POLL Was Katie Couric a good choice to take over as anchor of the ''CBS Evening News''? Yes No Maybe Don't care

POLL: Will Katie Couric make a good network evening news anchor? Yes No Not sure

No skating rink collapse, judging scandal or childhood triumph over adversity could compete with the melodrama broiling inside NBC as it launched its coverage of the 2006 Winter Games. The agita — set off by rumors that Couric might defect to anchor the "CBS Evening News" — cut right through the network's opening ceremony extravaganza. Bob Costas was once again the NBC host, but he had a new partner at his side, the anchorman Brian Williams, stiffly dignified even though he wore a navy sweater over his shirt and tie. Neither man mentioned Couric, who played host to the last...

Did anyone else lose their breakfast this morning monitoring The Perky One? Katie interviewed Slick on the pretense of his Africa trip, blah, blah, blah. With that little task out of the way, Kate then ask Impeached Expresident Bill Clinton about Karl Rove and ethics of this administration. Slick went on to whine about how effective Rove is at making democrats look like fools. And yes, it would be nice if he was gone.

Top Executive at NBC's 'Today' Show Fired Posted: Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005 - 05:05:15 pm PDT By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK - NBC on Tuesday ousted the chief executive behind the "Today" show, with the network's biggest money-maker in a ratings slump and feeling the heat from ABC's "Good Morning America." The network said it would name a replacement for Tom Touchet, the show's executive producer, on Wednesday. Touchet has had the job since November 2002. "Today" hasn't spent a week out of first place in the ratings, but NBC's position of unchallenged dominance in the morning has eroded. Its...

MIDI - I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT Perky Katie Couric, that's my name That Bush had won is really a shame I'm afraid when I see SUVs Like a bug those things might squish me

To replace disgraced anchorman Dan Rather, CBS might choose think-alike Katie Couric, NBC's biased little morning chit-chat hostess. So speculates influential Broadcasting & Cable magazine. "One scenario gaining commerce among industry cognescenti is that CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves will name an interim placeholder — The Early Show co-host Harry Smith, Face the Nation moderator Bob Scheiffer or 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley—until he can land a superstar to take over. If that's the tack he takes, what I hear is that the big name he's most likely to court is Katie Couric, arguably the most incandescent of all the stars...

I almost feel ashamed so I have to apologize. No, this is not an, "I'm a gay American" confession. My father and I were talking earlier this evening about watching the Olympics. I just sent him an apologetic e-mail as well. I tried, I really, really tried. I cannot and will not watch Katie Couric hosting anything. She makes me so violently ill that I cannot watch the Olympics as long as she is one of the announcers.

SAWYER SENSATIONS: 'GOOD MORNING AMERICA' PASSES 'TODAY' IN TOP 10 UPSET Rare good news at the Magic Kingdom as ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA takes 9 of the nation's top 10 markets away from NBC's TODAY show! Wednesday morning ratings show GMA passing TODAY in audience levels in major markets. GMA's only turbulence: a tie in San Fran and a 5% deficit to TODAY in Los Angeles. Otherwise, it's ABC's Diane Sawyer over NBC's Kaitie Couric in America's lucrative Wake-up War. GOOD MORNING AMERICA is expanding its status as urban darling -- to a potential national leader. "There are a few...

http://home.earthlink.net/~midimouse7/Page3a.html MIDI - I'M NOT LISA I'm not Dianne...my name is KatieShe is someone I despise She gets the big one...El PresidenteI could scratch out that woman's eyes She got the interview...so now I'm really screwedThere go my ratings...I so hate the Bushies For DemocRATS I shill...oh, yes, I always willThe one I love, really love, is Hillary...Hillary...she knows she can always count on me So remember...I'm not Dianne...my name is KatieI am perky...she's a wenchIf I had my way...along the highway...she'd be face down...in a deep trench I'm not Dianne

SEATTLE - There's something missing from Playboy magazine's "Women of Starbucks" issue, and it's not just clothing. Of the 10 baristas shown in the issue that hits the stands Tuesday, none is from Seattle, the coffee retailer's home town and birthplace, magazine spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey said Wednesday. Half of those chosen for the eight-page spread are from California, including cover model Signe Nordli of Anaheim. Hennessey said the photography editor couldn't remember how many of the nearly 300 women who applied were from Seattle. Despite the lack of local participants, Playboy has scheduled a magazine signing with Nordli on Monday...

KATIE TO GET HER OWN CHAT SHOW Katie Couric - Photo by: Roger Glazer/DMI SO guess who's got her own one-on-one celebrity sit-down TV interview show coming soon? Guess. Just guess. You'll never guess. Ready? Katie Couric. She'll join Barbara, Diane, Connie, ABC's other female alumni one-namers. As we speak, her people are trolling those people who work for celeb people. Presumably it was part of her upgraded NBC contract. The pool is small. The feeding fish are now many. The syndrome will soon see inverse negative results because, with all the magazine shows, talk shows, celebrity-driven shows, morning...