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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: RightWhale

Here's Rush last night. Click on his pic.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main3420.shtml


61 posted on 09/08/2006 9:01:18 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: dead

Can somebody do an animated GIF of Couric morphing from the Thin Couric to the Fat Couric?


62 posted on 09/08/2006 9:01:24 AM PDT by 50sDad (ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
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To: MindBender26

there used to be a perky TeeVee personality back in the 20th century who used to appear on one of Big Media networks named Katie. I wonder if it's the same one?


63 posted on 09/08/2006 9:01:56 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: MindBender26

When are they going to get it? Katie is a lib.
Libs fall flat on their face.


64 posted on 09/08/2006 9:02:36 AM PDT by golfisnr1 (look at a map)
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To: MindBender26

Yippee!!

65 posted on 09/08/2006 9:05:16 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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To: MindBender26

Not surprised at all. Don't like Curic, and I don't think she is anchor news material.


66 posted on 09/08/2006 9:05:28 AM PDT by tob2 ( "I may not be perfect but I'm always me." Anon.)
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To: MindBender26

Rush Limbaugh on CBS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHoZb6gcDvw


67 posted on 09/08/2006 9:07:41 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: MindBender26

sorry, the audio is this Rush clip is much better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bom-8p7L0Qk


68 posted on 09/08/2006 9:08:37 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: dfwgator
Her ending of asking for viewers to suggest her sign-off was real tacky,

It was worse than having a "Name the Band" contest.

69 posted on 09/08/2006 9:11:26 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: MindBender26


Har!


70 posted on 09/08/2006 9:13:16 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" 10% are fundamentalists, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: MindBender26

Don't break out the party favors just yet.


71 posted on 09/08/2006 9:15:15 AM PDT by osideplanner
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To: MindBender26

If she moved the desk away and wore short skirts her rating might be better.


72 posted on 09/08/2006 9:16:30 AM PDT by pankot
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To: MindBender26
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.

I'm guessing this isn't Katie's first one night stand.

73 posted on 09/08/2006 9:17:35 AM PDT by Semi Civil Servant (Colorado: the original Red State.)
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To: neodad

I was happy to read a transcript of Rush's contribution and thought it was excellent: words one will NEVER hear from
DNCBS or DNCspan. Haven't seen and don't expect to see Katie anytime soon!


74 posted on 09/08/2006 9:18:15 AM PDT by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: twigs

I laughed out load when he put that skit up, at least they do have a sense of humor on that show.


75 posted on 09/08/2006 9:18:38 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: dead
Time to start dancing in skimpy outfits!

Maybe if she did the Naked News, like they do in Russia...
76 posted on 09/08/2006 9:18:39 AM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: finnman69

Oliphant of the Boston Globe was on with Don Imus this morning, and he tried to cut Rush down for his appearance on CBS last night, when Imus surprised him and me. Imus said, "He didn't say anything that I didn't agree with." End of topic.


77 posted on 09/08/2006 9:25:53 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: rottndog

They can do photoshop on live TV?!?!?


78 posted on 09/08/2006 9:26:42 AM PDT by top 2 toe red (To the enemy in Iraq..."Don't bet on American politics forcing my hand!" President Bush)
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To: twigs

That ending made me literally laugh out loud. I'm not sure Mara liked it, but Brit, Beetle, and Mort did.


79 posted on 09/08/2006 9:28:39 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: MindBender26

I watched the first night.She is no Jessica Savage.


80 posted on 09/08/2006 9:32:14 AM PDT by fatima
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