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

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[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.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Great picture. Mind if I put it in my picutres?

[maggief]

[Petronski]

It's a regular schadenfreudische feast.

[tumblindice]

"They're stabbing me in the back!"
Yep, that's what some say . . .

[TommyDale]

Help yourself. I found it somewhere...

[nascarnation]

I stumbled across CBS news last night while satellite surfing.
Katie looked bad, I mean she was making these weird facial expressions, like the Botox was causing Tourette Syndrome or something. It was very odd, IMHO.

[goresalooza]

Maybe Katie's beloved Saddam still watches her dismal show.

Didn't she say on her old show, "Thankfully, Saddam escaped to Syria", not long after our troops invaded Baghdad? Clearly, she sides with the enemy all the time.

Katie, I look forward to the GLOAT-fest when your show tanks completely. BUB-BYE.

[soloNYer]

Thanks for the reports from Black Rock.

The only thing that would shock me is if CBS actually accepted that liberal journalists won't help ratings.

However, they are probably looking at Olberman or Chris Matthews as replacements...and would never think of Brit Hume.

Once she's gone, how long before the excuse is "America is apparantly not ready for a woman anchor."

[Red Badger]

There's always Air Amerika to aspire to, Katie, dear..........

[Boston Blackie]

this is gonna be one heck of a cat fight, she won't go quietly.

She's squealing like a stuck pig.

[Sacajaweau]

When will Katie play the "SEX" card?? My money is on 3 months.

[MindBender26]

New movie "The Couric Muntiny"

Opening line.... a dark stage, one single chair, much like a witness chair is brightly lit at center stage. The desk before the chair is rounded and oversize.

A short somewhat matronly woman who is working hard at disguising her 20 pounds of excess weight turns to the camera and says in a strained voice:

"It was disloyal officers, disloyal officers I tell you. There were missing strawberry-colored scripts, but my disloyal officers with their fancy suits and expense accounts lunches at the 21 Club caused all the problems....."

[Red Badger]

18 months? Hell, it didn't take 18 DAYS!........

[Enterprise]

I won't be happy until Perky blames FreeRepublic for her demise.

[Roccus]

IIRC, they just filed for bankruptcy.

[PresidentFelon]

"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."

Man....that is too rich to be true. Thanks so much for the entertaining news on the obviously mentally-deranged former CBS Anchor.

Wonder how often Algore will appear on Rather's show. That will be a hoot I'm sure.


Thanks Again,

PF

[Vaquero]

"They Are Stabbing Me In The Back."


well they are doing something to her back there.....whether a knife is involved (shrug...roll eyes)??????

[slowhand520]

I think that picture is better suited for the new and improved ABC's the View. Like Rosie O'Donnell

[indcons]

LOL...looks like the Couric-CBS honeymoon lasted exactly a week. Well, I do hope they dump Mrs. Colonoscopy ASAP.

[george76]