Posted on 10/09/2013 8:03:49 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Soft ratings, a huge budget and "disdain" for her female audience — Q Scores report only 10 percent of women view Couric favorably — have the host's Disney/ABC talk show in jeopardy as a renewal decision nears.
One of the TV's priciest daytime experiments soon could be coming to an end. Stations throughout the U.S. are contracted to carry Katie Couric's syndicated talk show through summer 2014, but the decision on whether Katie will score a third season likely will be made this month -- and renewal seems a long shot.
In fall 2012, Disney/ABC TV rolled out the red carpet for Couric, 56, giving her plum time slots on the best stations, fat license fees and loads of promotion. The initial annual budget was $50 million, according to a show source -- including $20 million for Couric over two years. (That budget has been brought down to $35 million. Similar talk shows cost about $20 million a year.) But station owners now complain the daily strip hasn't lived up to the hype, and several insiders tell THR that internal discord has become nearly unbearable.
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These people simply live in their own bubble and believe their hype. Just like Washington does. That’s why Michael J. Fox has his own sitcom (again) and you see the same retreads on shows.
Honest to God, I didn’t even know she had a talk show.
The line would snake out the door. Give them 1 minute.
The show would be the number one show in daytime, and prolly the night too.
The friggin line of people would never end.
How is this shit not easy to them ? Oh yeah, they have to love it. Ah well. As ye sows, so shall ye reap. (a little denouement for our admin mods. sorry about the $ word).
Ya know, run her around the track again, its' been a while, people forget :)
Maybe she should rerun on closed loop her colonoscopy video. That surely would help ber ratings...no?
Her perkiness was a media creation— fake from day one. Irked that she had to have perk for a paycheck. I always figured her natural state was as one of those dour Soviet news readers.
JUST MADE MY DAY!!
If I were Roger Ailes I hire Katie for Fox News in a heartbeat. Her job would be to get Sarah Palin’s coffee.
Who?
Never saw it. Oh, right.
She failed at CBS, now this. Sarah definitely gets the last laugh on Ms What Magazines Do YOU Read.
ha ha.... I had no idea that Katie Couric is still on TV.... isn’t she so last century??
She can retire with Monica’s blue dress and all the rest of the Clintonista rubbish....
I guess she will not be needing those new set of knee pads.
Head start on Halloween?
There’s OWN. And a repackaged channel called Pivot, but I think she’s too un-hip, even if the politics are a match.
who cares anyway?
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving leftist byotch.
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