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Katie Couric quickly slips down news ratings slope [VH1's "Flavor of Love" gets better ratings]
Inside Bay Area ^ | 10/19/2006 | Susan Young

Posted on 10/19/2006 10:01:37 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
EVEN NON-NEWS junkies should tremble at the news that last week, the second-season finale of VH-1's "Flavor of Love" garnered 7.5 million viewers, while CBS's evening news with Katie Couric could manage just 7.3 million.

Yep, I tremble with glee!

21 posted on 10/19/2006 10:15:28 AM PDT by AntiGuv (o) ™ (o)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

That's the whole show in a nutshell.


22 posted on 10/19/2006 10:15:44 AM PDT by retrokitten
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
As I have said from DAY 1 of the Couric announcement:


23 posted on 10/19/2006 10:18:45 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

" Put me on the news and I'll increase your ratings, CBS."

24 posted on 10/19/2006 10:19:19 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
EVEN NON-NEWS junkies should tremble at the news that last week, the second-season finale of VH-1's "Flavor of Love" garnered 7.5 million viewers, while CBS's evening news with Katie Couric could manage just 7.3 million.


25 posted on 10/19/2006 10:21:02 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

You can only warn the mainstream media that their overt partisanship and bias is going to lose them credibility and viewers.

When they fail to heed what people are really telling them and insist rather on telling the public what to think, then I guess we just get to enjoy their spectacular death spirals.

Enjoy!

There's nothing like the sound of gnashing teeth and celebrities throwing up seeing the latest ratings and job cuts.

Looks like that Olbermann guy is going to gore everybody's cow trying to save his own skin. There is no honor among fools.


26 posted on 10/19/2006 10:22:54 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Now, for my money, I would rather have seen Soledad O'Brien as the first network anchor.

Man, THAT'S a trial balloon. Young Soledad must be running for the hills . . .

27 posted on 10/19/2006 10:24:37 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: YdontUleaveLibs
Sounds like the stupidest show to hit the airwaves.

Oops - I thought you were talking about the CBS News...
28 posted on 10/19/2006 10:26:16 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Out of curiosity I watch her for the first time last night (and the last)

Proving that Democrats can't find good news in any story, This is what she said about the DOW Jones Historical high numbers last night - "It took six weeks for the DOW to go from 10,000 to 11,000 in 199?, BUT it took 7 Years for it to go from 11,000 to 12,000". Never did she mention that we had a little event called the inflated Tech Stock bubble and its burst (both caused by Clinton), and then 9/11 and two wars that followed that.

She followed that up with a comment that she has a hard time finding any good news now days, but she found one good news story which led into a sports story.


29 posted on 10/19/2006 10:26:26 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

The perky one going down??? Time for a trip to visit her colon, I assume! /tacky sexist sarcasm


30 posted on 10/19/2006 10:29:32 AM PDT by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
EVEN NON-NEWS junkies should tremble at the news that last week, the second-season finale of VH-1's "Flavor of Love" garnered 7.5 million viewers, while CBS's evening news with Katie Couric could manage just 7.3 million.

Maybe it's because Flava's eyes are less scary than Katie's?
31 posted on 10/19/2006 10:37:46 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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The funny thing is that the demographic group that CBS and Katie are after (ages 23-39) is the group watching Flavor Flav! I'm 26 and I don't have TV service. I want news...I get it off the net!

At least with the net I get to choose whether or not I consume garbage news.
32 posted on 10/19/2006 10:37:59 AM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: MortMan

And more good news from the Drive By Media...

NBC Universal makes $750M in cuts by reducing staff, scripted shows, news budget

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC Universal plans to cut US$750 million in operating expenses by the end of 2007 by eliminating employees, cutting back on scripted shows, and slashing its news budget, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

The moves come as more and more viewers and advertisers gravitate toward new media, NBC Universal chairman Bob Wright told the newspaper. He said the moves would restore the company to double-digit growth next year.


33 posted on 10/19/2006 10:43:32 AM PDT by Wil H
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Well, Flavor Flav does have those the whole neck-clock thing going on. Maybe Katie can rock a big Movado looking clock on Friday and try to steal back the ratings....


34 posted on 10/19/2006 10:54:10 AM PDT by bpjam (Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
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To: Wil H

The era of the big star and egos are over; that's not what people tune in to see anymore. That era is gone -- with the Dan Rathers and Barbara Streisands.

Most people would prefer somebody who's just good -- to an overinflated superego; that's why the Hitlers and the Saddams don't attract a following anymore. That era is gone.

What they need is just competence and ability -- and not more hype and sensationalism. The tragedy is that these people read their own press releases and believe they are as good as their publicists/agents tell them they are.

After they reap their millions, they move on to feed on another carcass.


35 posted on 10/19/2006 10:54:39 AM PDT by MikeHu
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To: Steel Wolf

You gotta start wondering what Flav's nickname would be for Katie. Hopefully, he would come up with something less tiresome than 'Perky'.


36 posted on 10/19/2006 10:56:30 AM PDT by bpjam (Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
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To: Steel Wolf
She could mud wrestle for him
37 posted on 10/19/2006 11:02:18 AM PDT by sticker
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To: nevergore
Maybe Katie needs to defecate on the NBC nightly news set to increase her ratings to that of Flavor Flav.....

Oh wait, didn't she do her colon exam on national television already?

She peaked too early.....

Oh that's good, cruel but good!

38 posted on 10/19/2006 11:06:41 AM PDT by marlon
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Susan, you ignorant slut.


39 posted on 10/19/2006 11:09:19 AM PDT by fruitintheroom
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To: sauropod
While Couric wouldn't have been the horse I put in the big race, she hasn't deserved the glee of people — make that mainly men — who seem only too eager to trumpet Couric's ratings decline and label her a loser.

Oh really, Susan?

Katie worked well when she was on morning TV, which is just background filler TV for hotels, restaurants, and airports. Nobody watches anyway, it's just on in the background while people eat breakfast and scan the morning paper.

Now that she's front-and-center on the evening news and people really started watching, the inescapable fact is that she sucks bad.

40 posted on 10/19/2006 11:32:22 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." - GW Bush, referring to DNC's lack of a platform on ANYTHING)
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