Posted on 09/08/2006 8:39:00 AM PDT by MindBender26
The overnight Nielsen Ratings are in, and they are a disaster for Katie Couric.
Couric's CBS Evening News was beaten by ABC WNT in New York, Chicago and other major markets
After all the hype, CBS and the other networks had expected a "honeymoon" lasting for at least a month as viewers sampled Couric's new show. It lasted one night.
Although she eeked out a national ratings win, the big cities have already abandoned her.
In places such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, where the big advertising dollars are spent, last night's CBS/Couric ratings free-fall mean one thing; Viewers sampled her Wednesday night, and didn’t like what they saw.
The huge ratings drop would have been understandable had there been a major breaking story, and viewers would have been expected to go to Gibson or Williams for Cronkiteian experience and “gravitas.” But it was a slow news night, a perfect time for Couric's "perky charm" to radiate and attract viewers, but both she and the ratings fell flat.
Bottom line, $15 million a year and months of super-hype.... all for nothing.
Old contacts at CBS I spoke with this AM said everyone is making lunch reservation to eat/drink together.... but at restaurants far from Black Rock or West 57th. Everyone wants a "tribal think" to decide who (other than themselves) is to blame for this disaster, but they are eating in out of the way places in Greenwich Village or the East Side, so they won’t be seen together.
There will be much more of this over the weekend.
like gawking at a car wreck, few linger
Rush was good...as usual, but the rest of it was DNC talking points.
Gee... never saw THIS one coming. /sarc
Bin Laden is saddened
And how many other viewers were Rush fans? Wait until today's ratings.
ping for later
May the slide continue!!!! Yes!
tony snow live news conference on c-span right now
(a voice on the Titanic)
..."more lounge chairs,Sidney"
Doogle
So, what are the numbers?
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people
LOL
How did Rush's segment go?
>Rush was good...as usual, but the rest of it was DNC talking points.
He was great, but horrible for the show ratings.
No Conservative will watch 26 minutes of DNC propaganda to see two minutes of Rush, ans no lib wants to see Rush at all!
Our local CBS affiliate was crowing (on last night's local news) that Katie's rating in the Twin Cities area were much higher than the rest of the country.
Every night, they run a segment of an interview they did with Couric when she visited the local station two weeks ago.
Did you see Brit's closing last night? If not, you should try to. You would appreciate it.
The only reason it wasn't worse is because Rush was on there, right?
Her ending of asking for viewers to suggest her sign-off was real tacky, I think she lost a lot of viewers with that one, it just didn't come off as professional.
How dare you ruin forever my image of the lovely Alizee?
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