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CBS, Couric Likely to Split
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 04/09/2008 4:54:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

CBS, Couric Likely to Split By REBECCA DANA April 9, 2008 7:44 p.m.

After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year.

Ms. Couric isn't even halfway through her five-year contract with CBS, which began in June 2006 and pays an annual salary of around $15 million. But CBS executives are under pressure to cut costs and improve ratings for the broadcast, which trails rival newscasts on ABC and NBC by wide margins.

Her departure would cap a difficult episode for CBS, which brought Ms. Couric to the network with considerable fanfare in a bid to catapult "Evening News" back into first place. Excluding several weeks of her tenure, Ms. Couric never bested the ratings of interim anchor Bob Schieffer, who was named to host the broadcast temporarily after "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather left the newscast in the wake of a discredited report on George W. Bush's National Guard service.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; cbsnews; couric; democrats; fired; katietheclown; liberalism; liberals; mediameltdown; msm; propaganda
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To: Sub-Driver

21 posted on 04/09/2008 5:54:37 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: Sub-Driver

One word:

“Courage”.


22 posted on 04/09/2008 6:00:43 PM PDT by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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To: Ann Archy

You mean that “sick twisted freak” Glenn Beck?

;)

(he’d be light years better than anyone else see-BS has now)


23 posted on 04/09/2008 6:05:26 PM PDT by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just off the top of my head, you have Katie, Hillary, heck, even Debbie Stabenow and my esteemed Gov Granholm are having their faces rubbed in their own inadequacy... Talk about the Year of the (Democrat) Woman.


24 posted on 04/09/2008 6:14:35 PM PDT by MichiganMan (Remember when Linkin Park wasn't on your mom's radio station?)
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To: Lancey Howard

Me and you both. I got to where just seeing them made me a little queezy at my stomach.


25 posted on 04/09/2008 6:33:59 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Sub-Driver

To this news, Katy was heard screaming “No, say it isn’t so...not after all I spent on plastic surgery and botox treatments!”


26 posted on 04/09/2008 6:46:50 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Alberta's Child
I had not heard that, but I also would not rule that out. If true, it is a very expensive method of eating away at your competition.
27 posted on 04/09/2008 7:07:02 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: dynachrome

No, not Glenn Beck...this was a dark haired NEWS guy! He was GREAT!


28 posted on 04/10/2008 6:29:02 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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