Katie's Old Show Beats Katie's New Show (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

TV Newser ^ | June 4, 2007 | Staff

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First on TVNewser: Maybe Katie Couric should have stayed on The Today Show.

On Friday, Today outrated the CBS Evening News by 200,000 viewers and a full rating point in the demo.

According to fast affiliate data, Today on NBC had 5,100,000 viewers, while the Evening News on CBS had 4,900,000. In the demo, Today had a 2.2 and EN had a 1.2.

"It happens in the metered markets all the time. But this is the first time I've seen it in the national numbers," a competitor says. "I wonder if this will become a regular occurrence?"

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Monday Evening Good News!

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Ping

[andyandval]

This makes my day...

:^)

[Kimmers]

Giggle !!!!!!

[Kimmers]

Giggle !!!!!!

[AlphaOneAlpha]

I suppose that CBS will decide to pull the plug on Katie when she gets down to 250 viewers. A lot of everyday folks with vocations in other fields called the move to put her into the job a big mistake. But not the CBS “experts”.
Idiots

[MarineBrat]

[Bullish]

The CBS snooze still had 4.9 million viewers?

I didn’t know there were that many nursing homes out there.

[martin_fierro]

[Dahoser]

Why don’t they just call it The CSI Evening News like everything else on the network and see if that works any better? Her signing is a bigger waste of $40 million than the Yankees signing of Carl Pavano. He won 5 games during his time with the Yanks which might be more weeks than Her Perkiness has won in the ratings since she started.

[ken5050]

What are Katie’s ratings vs Brit’s?

[wildwood]

don’t you have the unphoto-shopped fat picture of her to put in there?

[GBA]

I heard various people talking about this today and the reason given is always the same: it’s gender. America just isn’t ready for a female news anchor. It’s not her fault or CBS’s fault...it’s our fault. We just aren’t enlightened enough for a female anchor.

[martin_fierro]

[Milhous]

A couple of bomb magnets.

[andyandval]

So sad...

[Suzy Quzy]

I gave her one year and then out.....I think I will win that bet.

[pigsmith]

bump

[N. Theknow]

The CBS snooze still had 4.9 million viewers?

I didn’t know there were that many nursing homes

There are still that many TV sets with "Get out of the chair and spin the dial" tuners?

[citizencon]

CBS’s misfortune is like that of a man who discovers that he has married a transexual...what a comedy of errors this whole Katie Couric ‘coup’ is playing out to be...heeh heeh...