Posted on 07/17/2007 4:00:51 PM PDT by abb
The latest name to surface in the ongoing Katie Couric saga at CBS News is that of Scott Pelley, a Washington-based 60 Minutes correspondent since 2004. According to a scenario being heard in whispers at CBS News, Pelly is being positioned to possibly replace Couric at some future date, should her numbers not improve.
Pelley, CBS's former chief White House correspondent, is in the process of moving with his family from the Washington area to New York, where 60 Minutes is produced.
In confirming the move, a CBS spokesperson tells TVNewser: "Scott is an integral part of 60 Minutes. The move is a practical matter."
Pelly was a candidate to replace embattled anchor Dan Rather before Couric was wooed to the CBS Evening news last spring. Rather was said to have been campaigning for Pelley, a fellow Texan.
Should this plan go down, don't look for it to happen before the '08 elections, CBS sources say. As for Pelley, his move north is expected in about a month.
As for the speculation Pelley is in any way being groomed to take over the "Evening News" chair, the CBS spokesperson tells TVNewser that kind of talk is "PURE BUNK."
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Given their bias, and in some cases their out right rigging of the “news” for the benefit of the Democrat Party, it can’t happen soon enough.
Moonves wants "perky" don't ya know.
And CBS News get the CNN guy who at one time held Jon Klien's job at CNN.
There's a reality show somewhere in all of that manuvering, perhaps a show called "Loser Swap".
I'd hate to be the guy who nixed that idea.
Maybe he was brought in by Moonves to really, really tank CBS News so that they could switch to something that brings in money instead of hemorrhaging it?
Agreed. The whole format is as obsolete as newsreels. The networks could make more money if the ran a game show in the same time slot.
She said that Couric's delivery just made people uncomfortable becase she sounds like she's been kidnapped, drugged and is reading a hostage letter. Pretty spot on, really.
I hear in certain markets Designing women and diagnosis Murder kicking Katie butt in the ratings
Katie Couric, weather girl...
In your dreams.
Pelly? = Lightweight
That can’t do that, the anchor spot is now a woman’s seat. SeeBS is Constitutionally constrained to nominate a woman to replace Ruth Bader ..., whoops, wrong token ... ah, make that Perky Katie.
SeeBS ought to save some money by just rerunning Cronkite's authoritarian shtick. Given drive-by-media's obsessive Iraq as Vietnam story telling Cronkite's old broadcasts stand a fair shot at passing for news in the senile moonbat Perky watching community.
“By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. After the ‘08 elections, ABC, NBC, and CBS will eliminate their evening news broadcasts.”
If only. That would add 10 years to my life. But, I dont see that happening. How, could we be so lucky.
If Pelly doesn’t work out, they could call Connie Chung.
Never heard of Pelly, Couric, Chung.... The blue movies I get from Canada for free are more interesting.
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