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Nielsens: Real Bad Week for Katie Couric
AP via Comcast.net ^ | May 8, 2007 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 05/08/2007 3:53:57 PM PDT by Lancey Howard

NEW YORK - It surely wasn't what CBS dreamed about when Katie Couric was hired: the "CBS Evening News" last week recorded its smallest audience since 1987, and probably many years before that.

It also didn't help that the average of 6.05 million viewers came at the beginning of the important May ratings "sweeps."

Meanwhile, ABC's "World News" recorded its widest advantage in viewership over NBC's "Nightly News" since the week Peter Jennings died in August 2005. The victory, ABC's ninth in 13 weeks over NBC, adds to the sense that Charles Gibson is eclipsing Brian Williams as the nation's favorite network news anchor.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; couric
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1 posted on 05/08/2007 3:53:59 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Excuse me while I go grab one sheet of TP.


2 posted on 05/08/2007 3:55:02 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Lancey Howard

Bummer Katie.


3 posted on 05/08/2007 3:55:11 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Lancey Howard

I have not watched network news for years and never will again.


4 posted on 05/08/2007 3:55:35 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: Lancey Howard

Brian Williams is really weak.


5 posted on 05/08/2007 3:56:12 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: MindBender26

You Who.


6 posted on 05/08/2007 3:56:18 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Lancey Howard

Under limbo stick.


7 posted on 05/08/2007 3:57:04 PM PDT by Ieatfrijoles ("Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial")
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To: Lancey Howard

well you can say one thing about Dan Rather...at least we tuned in to CBS to watch his career tank.
No one really cares to watch Katie go down the tubes.


8 posted on 05/08/2007 3:57:56 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Lancey Howard

Lol! Well do they take the old nag to the glue factory yet?


9 posted on 05/08/2007 3:58:12 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Lancey Howard

Cue Nelson Muntz.


10 posted on 05/08/2007 3:59:33 PM PDT by Carl LaFong ( Enough Is Too Much !)
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To: Uncle Hal

“I have not watched network news for years and never will again.”

You mean to say they still have it on?


11 posted on 05/08/2007 3:59:42 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: Lancey Howard

Oh well katie, go play with your little boy toy cause you sure can’t credibly read the news.


12 posted on 05/08/2007 4:02:46 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: Lancey Howard
It’s been a good 25 years since I watched network news. Why listen to enemy propaganda? Thoroughly disgusted when I hear some conservative call talk show and complain about what he heard on one of these shows. Why would you watch?
13 posted on 05/08/2007 4:03:00 PM PDT by all the best
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To: Scotswife

And the sounds of footsteps leaving CBS News continues....the beat goes on for Katie’s head there....bye-bye cutie-pie couric!*

*Don’t forget to take your colon with you when fired....


14 posted on 05/08/2007 4:03:30 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Lancey Howard

I’ve never watched her show.


15 posted on 05/08/2007 4:04:57 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Does it really qualify as a bad week when she is getting paid millions of dollars for nothing?


16 posted on 05/08/2007 4:05:25 PM PDT by iowamark (What if the Right said Fred?)
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To: Carl LaFong
Cue Nelson Muntz.

Dunno anything about nelson Muntz, but I think Fred Mertz would do a great job delivering the news; if he was alive.

17 posted on 05/08/2007 4:06:30 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: unkus

Remember....only one square.


18 posted on 05/08/2007 4:07:57 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The old/liberal/socialist media is the most ruthless and destructive enemy of this country.)
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To: Lancey Howard

It would be just PERFECT if Katie would be replaced by Rosie.


19 posted on 05/08/2007 4:11:07 PM PDT by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Evening network news is a dinosaur. Why would anyone (other than the Poligrip-Preparation H contingent) set aside a half hour to watch somebody regurgitate what you can hear as it happens all day on Fox News, or (fweh) CNN.


20 posted on 05/08/2007 4:14:09 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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