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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Excuse me while I go grab one sheet of TP.
Bummer Katie.
I have not watched network news for years and never will again.
Brian Williams is really weak.
You Who.
Under limbo stick.
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.
Lol! Well do they take the old nag to the glue factory yet?
Cue Nelson Muntz.
“I have not watched network news for years and never will again.”
You mean to say they still have it on?
Oh well katie, go play with your little boy toy cause you sure can’t credibly read the news.
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....
I’ve never watched her show.
Does it really qualify as a bad week when she is getting paid millions of dollars for nothing?
Dunno anything about nelson Muntz, but I think Fred Mertz would do a great job delivering the news; if he was alive.
Remember....only one square.
It would be just PERFECT if Katie would be replaced by Rosie.
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.
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