Posted on 10/09/2006 2:34:08 PM PDT by SmithL
The fifth week was the toughest for Katie Couric, whose viewership on the "CBS Evening News" has dropped each week since her debut the day after Labor Day.
Her broadcast averaged 7.04 million viewers last week, third to NBC's "Nightly News" (8.56 million) and ABC's "World News" (7.97 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.
CBS points out that the "CBS Evening News" is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier. NBC's margin of victory last year was 2.2 million.
"Where we were last week or even in the weeks to come is not as important as where we are next year and even the year after that," said CBS News President Sean McManus. "As we have said from the very beginning, we are focused on the long term and on making slow and steady progress, which we are doing."
But the steady erosion is a discouraging sign, especially after 13.6 million people tuned in for Couric's first broadcast.
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CBS:
Katie, Carlie and Patti....
They are all victimes of male dominated business!!!
Maybe Keith Olberman could cheer up the Perky one or something.
Wait till Menopause takes over
OH poor little dahling...can't even score at least one night with the Johns...LOL
"CBS points out that the "CBS Evening News" is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier."
That's like a last place baseball team celebrating because they didn't finish as many games out as they did the prior year.
Pinging the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ list with Monday Afternoon Good News...
Apparently he couldn't.
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Oh dear. How repugnant!
Good one!
"CBS points out that the "CBS Evening News" is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier. NBC's margin of victory last year was 2.2 million."
Moral victory...
Katie watch
Doogle
At first they (the ratings that is) were perky but now they have sagged. (or something like that.) I couldn't resist.
I've never seen the show. I wonder if I ever will.
Perhaps if I'm stuck in some fleabag motel in Williston, North Dakota with no cable...
So will the media learn not to put diddle-brains with pretty faces in front of cameras? I doubt it.
sound of crickets...
...sagged... shriveled... withered... they all work.
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