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Katie Couric Furious At CBS Suits. She Claims "They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."
Fiends, make that Friends at CBS | MB26

Posted on 09/14/2006 7:13:10 AM PDT by MindBender26

Couric Furious At CBS Suits. She Claims "They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."

Katie Couric is not a happy camper this morning. The Suits at CBS have sent a strong signal throughout the news department that they have already lost faith in her. Here are the details as reported to me this AM from an old friend at West 57th.

(Here beginnith the First Lesson.)

“Promos” (short for promotional announcements) are advertisements a station or network runs to promote their own programs. A 30 second televised message advertising Veg-O-Matic is called a “spot” (short for spot advertisement.) A 30 second message advertising the CBS Evening News is called a “promo.”

Promos are the lifeblood of an individual high-profile anchor’s ratings. The commercial time committed to promos is directly linked to increased ratings.

If a station or network has faith in a rising star reporter or anchor, they will run a “heavy rotation” of promos for that person. Likewise, if the network suits have little faith in the anchor, that personality will receive few promos.

Why not give everyone plenty of promos? It’s simple; there are only so many minutes available to run promos and spots during a 24 hour period. Every time a network airs a promo, they abandon the revenue that would have been produced by a commercial run during that same time period.

(Here endith the First Lesson)

Well… a new promo schedule has just been circulated at CBS, and Perky’s promo time is WAY down. Both the frequency and desirability of time of airing have been cut drastically. This is a clear sign that the Suits have read the tea leaves and are already abandoning Perky.

Some reduction was expected after her first week but a CBS insider described the cuts as “drastic” and “approaching abandonment.” In her words, “we would give more promo time to a “safe Halloween trick-or-treating” story than Katie is going to get.

Another horribly negative comment is now accepted as fact at CBS: “Sure, some people are going to watch us/her now, but can you imagine anyone having a choice between us and Charlie Gibson on ABC going with us if/when there is another terrorist attack?”

Already some other anchors’ agents are smelling blood in the water. The big guessing game at Black Rock is now, “Which power agent is having lunch with which CBS Suit today.”

P.S. Rather is working overtime on his new satellite- fed dinky cable show. Editors who have seen first drafts of story treatments say it is WAY over the top, sort of a "Howard Beale on LSD reading Rolling Stone straight to camera, with a Texas accent" concept.

More as available.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bimbo; ccrm; katiecommie; katiecouric; mediabias; nolegsnoratings; qatyalkhouriq; yellowjournalism
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To: Miss Marple
>the bidding war for Couric

This is really Rather 2.0. Rather's agent, Kenny Leibner, kept threatening CBS that he would take Rather to ABC's anchor chair if CBS didn't boot Cronkite in favor of Rather.

ABC played along because they knew Jennings would beat Rather any day.

So Walter goes adios and Delusional Dan takes over.

Couric's agent, Alan Berger, who works with Superagent Michael Ovitz just played the same game again.... just with a new group of idiots.

Lester the Loser Moonves' wife Julie Chen loved it, because it gave everyone another woman to blame for CBS submarining ratings.

321 posted on 09/14/2006 6:17:15 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: MindBender26

Big deal--she still gets the money , doesn't she?


322 posted on 09/14/2006 6:18:23 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: CharlesWayneCT
“Sure, some people are going to watch us/her now, but can you imagine anyone having a choice between us and Charlie Gibson on ABC going with us if/when there is another terrorist attack?”

Speaking of, MSNBC was replaying 911 as it happened on the anniversary. Katie was on there, and twice she referred to United Flight 800 as being a terrorist attack. I knew two other journalists had let that slip in the excitement and horror of that day, but wasn't aware Katie had done so as well. Luckily I was taping the replay.

323 posted on 09/14/2006 6:18:34 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: MindBender26

Her newsreading show is coming in at #3 out of 3.


324 posted on 09/14/2006 6:19:14 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: MindBender26
Good Night and Good Riddance, Katie...

325 posted on 09/14/2006 6:19:43 PM PDT by NewLand (Always Remember September 11, 2001)
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To: MindBender26

Interesting story. I didn't know the background on how Rather got his job...it was so long ago, and my kids were at home and I was not paying attention to much then.


326 posted on 09/14/2006 6:21:25 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

That advertising was sold before she aired I bet.


327 posted on 09/14/2006 6:22:08 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

yes it was...


328 posted on 09/14/2006 7:34:48 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: martin_fierro

love it. quietly smiling. actually I have seen only 4 minutes of her since 1998 so.........


329 posted on 09/14/2006 8:14:12 PM PDT by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: ErnBatavia; MindBender26

That's classic!

Katie is a washed up upper-middle aged "girl" who wants everyone to see her as a hot smart perky twenty-something.

Sad, RIP Katie. 49 and not holding...

GREAT info, MindBender26!


330 posted on 09/14/2006 9:06:43 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I left the networks thirty years ago, but even in those days news didn't pay its own way. The rationale for the division was that it was part of our duty, as trustees of the public airwaves, to inform the public on the issues of the day. Those were the days when 'public interest, convenience, and necessity' was believed to mean just that.

The real downfall of networks new programs can be traced to the period when their news divisions ceased to be independent and instead became part of the entertainment division.


331 posted on 09/14/2006 9:13:24 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: Loyalist

I had totally forgotten about that! Yikes!


332 posted on 09/14/2006 9:36:22 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: MindBender26
NOBODY had the private phones of any of the Bush family.

CIA training.

333 posted on 09/14/2006 9:39:30 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Roccus

I'd rather (heh) use her AS an anchor."


Fat Floats


334 posted on 09/14/2006 10:39:44 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: Landru
Ok, so what gives at cbs??? There is a foul stench emanating from the innards of the network(s). One is forced to ask themselves what could have driven cbs to elevate a half-wit like perky katie to such a prestigious position(yeah, yeah what prestige). Feminist lobby?

Just what demographic could cbs possibly hope to capture with the toothy one??? I gotta confess, I'm at a loss to figger it out. Unless of course, the "suits" at cbs are as shallow as we've always suspected. I dunno.

Maybe the "suits", pressured(by God knows who) to hire perky, incorporated an escape clause in their contract. You know, sortof like an annulment if they are unable to "consumate" the, er, marriage ;^)

335 posted on 09/15/2006 12:18:36 AM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: MindBender26

336 posted on 09/15/2006 12:20:18 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: avacado
That's what's known as a loaded question, like "when did you stop beating your wife?" It's a rhetorical device that the Left does seem to engage in more than the Right.

The simple retort is "I don't accept your premise." or words to that effect. "Your question assumes that I've ever beat my wife. [that I hate Blacks.]" When employed skillfully it makes the questioner look stupid. Tony Snow is a master of the form, and he uses a stiletto, not a sledgehammer, which is why he is so often credited with giving some hack (e.g., Helen Thomas, David Gregory) a beatdown.

The reason that it is so tough talking to a liberal is because they make assumptions (e.g., anyone in favor of welfare reform is a racist) that they are not even aware are assumptions.
337 posted on 09/15/2006 3:23:14 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (No, that's the Keninston "runestone")
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To: ForGod'sSake
"Ok, so what gives at cbs???"

Same as ABC & the shill Iger.
Liars running ruses gone amok.
Simple as that.

"There is a foul stench emanating from the innards of the network(s)."

HA!!
Fouler, my friend. {g}

"One is forced to ask themselves what could have driven cbs to elevate a half-wit like perky katie..."

The scourge of every Liberal-Socialist addicted to the limousine lifestyle, don'tcha know!!
-$$- ;^)

"...to such a prestigious position(yeah, yeah what prestige)."

Yea, what *prestige*.
Danny "Boy" Rather, Petahhh "RIH" Brokejaw & the other moron(s) took care of any claims to "prestige" that seat [ever] had. ~sigh~

"Feminist lobby?"

HA!!
The old rug munchers are wayyyy too busy trying to get their *new* "Talk Radio" net off the ground to bother with a homely, ever-fattening Liberal-Socialist millionaire like Perky, FGS.

"Just what demographic could cbs possibly hope to capture with the toothy one??? I gotta confess, I'm at a loss to figger it out."

No mystery here a'tall, not really.
Few weeks back (while sitting up in my gazebo, "Talos", enjoying a fine Churchill & watching the garden grow) I heard the the lovable fuzzball speak of what he thinks lies behind the continual abject fear we're bombarded with 24/7, and that's the link. Perhaps you heard him address that little matter, also?
Long story short he said nearly all of today's media -- be it news *&/or* "entertainment" -- are today run by females. :o)

Apparently these "Big Bug Brain" broads running the shows are playing to the rest of America's females and they're using the only thing they think will evoke the/a desired response: *fear*.
Surely you've noticed this unseemly *trend*?

So yes it's the demographic, but more to the point it's the messenger. You see woman are more honest than males such as the lying sack of excrement *like* Danny "Boy" Blather???
Capiche?

"Unless of course, the "suits" at cbs are as shallow as we've always suspected. I dunno."

Sure they're shallow, can't be anything but shallow if you're responsible for the likes of "Dancing With The Stars" et al ad naseum.
Shallow *&* banal, to be sure.

I think we can agree whatever their motive if so much as one scintilla of this story's true? Then let the manipulative SeeBS SOBs responsible for putting the brainless imbecile in that chair have a very slow drown. ;^)

"Maybe the "suits", pressured(by God knows who) to hire perky, incorporated an escape clause in their contract."

No way Jose', nothing short of mass murder & even then I'd think she'd be covered.
Anyone who thinks this idiot's steadfast support of everything Liberal-Socialist didn't come at a cost to someone is nuts.
No Perky's contract is ironclad & you may take that to the bank.

"You know, sortof like an annulment if they are unable to "consumate" the, er, marriage ;^)"

HA!!
Don't you mean an, "Abortion Clause", of sorts given the "infant status" of the relationship? {g}

Tell you what, if SeeBS wants to dump the broad they're going to have to PAY her every cent her contract promises.
Not one penny less.

She may be homely, she may be a Liberal-Socialist's Liberal-Socialist; but, she ain't stupid.

...certainly not where money's involved. ;^)

338 posted on 09/15/2006 5:50:19 AM PDT by Landru (That does it, no sleep number for you pal.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Your reply is exactly right and you said it much better than I could have. Katie likes to start many of her questions with: "Everybody has said...." For example:

"Now that everybody has said that Iraq is a complete disaster how do you feel?"

I gotta had it to the moonbats though, they know how to get ya riled real fast with their moronic statements! lol!



339 posted on 09/15/2006 5:50:49 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Miss Marple
Leibner played them for the paranoid fools they are.

My current favorite is Av Westin Jr. His father was a genius. The son is a NY lawyer running a network news division,

He was "distressed" by Leonardo DiCaprio's questioning of Bill Clinton as a "reporter" for ABC on Earth Day a few years ago.

The edict went out: "From now on, the parts of journalists will always be played by journalists."

To him, it was all one big play. He didn't understand the difference between news and a soap opera.
340 posted on 09/15/2006 5:55:10 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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