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Couric "Honeymoon" With Viewers Over In One Day! ABC WNT Wins In Major Markets. (Disaster For CBS)
Experience | MB26

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chunkykatiesinks; msmwoes; nolegsnoratings; qatyalkhouriq; thepetraprinciple
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To: MindBender26

I never realized how AWFUL her VOICE is!!! YIKES!!


101 posted on 09/08/2006 10:24:12 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kabooms"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: half-cajun

One idea for a Katie sign-off. She is sitting facing the lights in the white blazer she wore the first night. I think (someone help me here) she might have been asking for help with the sign-off. The camera goes behind her and you she that she throws open her blazer and bares herself. It was very dramatic. And very funny.


102 posted on 09/08/2006 10:25:06 AM PDT by twigs
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To: MindBender26

Perky and news don't mix.


103 posted on 09/08/2006 10:25:55 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: Suzy Quzy

I agree that Katie does have an awful voice. I think that she's attractive though. I don't understand why people have said the things they have about her face.


104 posted on 09/08/2006 10:26:31 AM PDT by twigs
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To: MindBender26

I got my wife to tape the show, so I could watch Rush's segment. I got home, watched Rush, then cued it up to the start of his segment again.

My wife got home later, and I played Rush for her. She kept watching, because she wanted to see Katie, then the conversation went something like this:

Wife: Where's Katie?

Me: That's Katie.

Wife: It doesn't look like Katie.

Me: It's Katie.

Wife: She's not perky, and her hair isn't right.

Me: It's Katie.

Wife: I'll believe it's Katie, when they say she's Katie.

Later, at Katie's sign off, when she refers to herself by name:

Me: See, she just said she was Katie.

Wife: Well, she finally looked and sounded like the real Katie Couric, just then.

:-)


105 posted on 09/08/2006 10:33:16 AM PDT by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: Surtur

CBS is to broadcast journalism what GM is to cars, IMHO.


106 posted on 09/08/2006 10:37:49 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (www.stjosephssanford.org)
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To: twigs

She can even say the same thing Jane Curtain did on SNL after she ripped open her blouse and exposed her bra;

"Try these on for size, Connie Chung! If it's raw news you want, it's raw news you get!"


107 posted on 09/08/2006 10:38:58 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: MindBender26

Even a couple of my ultra-liberal "friends" thought she was painful to watch. That's when you know it's bad.


108 posted on 09/08/2006 10:40:38 AM PDT by ncdrumr
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To: Surtur
Allow me to fix that up for you.

When will SeeBS's suits learn to look at the "sell by" date on former NBC newspeople? Katie is going to be the same kind of disaster that Bryant GumbleGumball Grumble was. If I was a SeeBS stockholder, I would have sold off as soon as they announced Katie as the new anchor because they are NOT going to get the return on their investment on that deal. Management will have to buy out her contract within 18 mos. just like they did with Gumball. If SeeBS iust wants to throw money away, they can throw some at me. 8^)

109 posted on 09/08/2006 10:40:45 AM PDT by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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To: twigs

I missed it, but my husband said it was the funniest thing ever.


110 posted on 09/08/2006 10:45:39 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: abb; Milhous

Ping your lists.


111 posted on 09/08/2006 10:49:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: martin_fierro

Time for your deck chair gif.


112 posted on 09/08/2006 10:51:14 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: MindBender26

113 posted on 09/08/2006 10:52:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: MindBender26
Although she eeked out a national ratings win

Fire your editor. < |:)~

Still counting down to April, 2007.

114 posted on 09/08/2006 10:54:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MindBender26

Closing the coffin lid on tha whirld newz tanite. Hey MSM - the wheel has turned and your time is over.


115 posted on 09/08/2006 10:59:10 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: MindBender26
Just a thought!!

Could it be that the MORE LIBERAL markets like NY-Chicago etc, tuned out BECAUSE Rush was going to appear? We all know they had plenty of warning with RUSH touting his appearance on his radio show yesterday.

Guess we will have to wait until Monday to see if her numbers increase or decrease.

116 posted on 09/08/2006 11:02:54 AM PDT by PISANO
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To: Maceman

117 posted on 09/08/2006 11:02:59 AM PDT by maineman
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To: MplsSteve
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.

WCCO in Minneapolis is owned by the CBS corporation.

It's pretty much a direct party line: Democrats-> CBS-> WCCO.

118 posted on 09/08/2006 11:05:08 AM PDT by RJL
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To: MindBender26

Couric sinking faster than a rock or the Titanic.


119 posted on 09/08/2006 11:12:59 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: maineman; weegee
weegee. like gawking at a car wreck, few linger

maineman's trainwreck imagery seems to capture it better IMHO. LOL.

120 posted on 09/08/2006 11:16:03 AM PDT by Milhous (Twixt truth and madness lies but a sliver of a stream.)
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