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There have been rumors about Katie Couric possibly leaving the CBS Evening News anchor chair when her contract is up in June. The rumors have been steady – and there has never really been a explicit denial about it either. I tend to think that it’s a situation where nobody is happy – Katie finds the anchor chair too stifling and boring, and CBS News isn’t happy with the ratings or the ad revenues. Then, this morning, TMZ started the rumor mill churning anew, claiming that Katie is ready to “bolt” soon and that she’ll likely move on to a syndicated show. Then, just a short while ago, TMZ reported this update:
Katie Couric has not officially quit CBS, but nonetheless network sources tell us it’s a virtual certainty that she will be leaving.
Sources connected with Couric tell us … Katie has no hard feelings toward CBS and may end up staying at the network, but feels her role as anchor of the CBS Evening News has been way too confining.
We’re told Couric is most interested in doing a syndicated show — probably a talk show — but wants to end up somewhere that has a news operation where she can contribute. Sources say she’s in serious talks with CBS, NBC and CNN. Her reps are talking to ABC, but that’s a long shot.
Katie’s exit from CBS Evening News is “not 100%” but it’s just a matter of time before Katie announces her departure — sources say it will come in the next few weeks. Katie’s plan is to start a syndicated show in September, 2012.
As far as front-runners, a Katie source says there are none — “Everything and everyone is in play.”
[From TMZ]
I wouldn’t mind seeing Katie move to CNN, but she might not want to enter that sinking ship. I mean, what would she do? Take over from Piers Morgan? That bastard needs to go anyway, but surely they can find someone sassy to take over (NOT Dame Seacrest, more like Anderson Cooper). My guess is that Katie will return to NBC, her one-time home, and that she might get a magazine show, like Dateline or something.
As for who will take over the CBS Evening News…Gawker has a list here, complete with betting odds. Once again, Anderson Cooper’s name is in the mix, which could be interesting. He already contributes to 60 Minutes, so he already has a relationship with CBS. He could be our first gay network anchor! Will CBS’s core audience of Olds care for him, though? My guess is the CBS will hire internally for the next anchor, and go with Harry Smith. Still, it’s interesting to see Keith Olbermann’s name in the mix.
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Written by Kaiser
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Ohhhh team AC! But then again, I think the CBS Evening News is too snoresville for him.
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Id rather watch a constipated duck read the news than Katie Couric.
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Her niche is dressing up like Peter Pan and flying around on the early morning “news”…she is not a serious journalist. Will NEVER be. Snoozeville indeed.
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Good riddance.
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I hope it’s not Regis! Or Julie “I do it all and perfectly and love to talk about it” Chen.
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I think most people don’t realize that Anderson is gay. I told my mom and she was SHOCKED! LOL And she still loves him. So I don’t think that would be a deal breaker for him.
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This is not surprising. What is surprising is that it’s taken this long for CBS to realize they need to give her the boot. The ratings have never been stellar.
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These rumors have been around for at least 3 years. With the ratings remaining low I think it’s more CBS not renewing her contract than Katie not wanting to sign. She’s better at interviews not an anchor. She was never a good fit. Diane Sawyer is a great anchor for ABC.
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Yeah I gotta say Harry Smith. I’ve been so sad since they booted him from the Early Show :/
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The Percolator can take her leftist “Chipmunk Cheeks minute” with her. I hate when it comes on my radio station.
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Katie Couric is the most over paid,over rated T.V. personality in the industry at 15 million/year. She should just go away and sip margaritas with her boy toy on a deserted beach somewhere in La La Land.
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Harry Smith is smart money. CBS needs some redemption for giving Smith the boot. I liked and still like him and will watch him on the evening news. He was the reason I watched the Early Show. Let’s face it Couric has not done herself any favors lately and am not surprised CBS are not renewing.
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wow, another page of disappointing comments. Katie Couric has worked her a$$ off as a journalist (yes, for YEARS before the Today show) but all you can say is that she’s too cute or perky?!?! If you want to complain that she’s too far left, fine, but try not to run her down just for being a nice woman. If she was less cheerful, you’d call her a bitch, right? Or is it just that you prefer your anchors to have penises?
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gag
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I used to really dislike Katie until I saw this:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ea1eba8b33/katie-couric-investigates-the-sillies
Kinda gave me a respect for her…
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I wouldnt slag her off for being overly cheerful or perky, I think she comes off as a former perky cheerleader type who is past the time in which she could get viewers because of the blonde and bubbly act and is a now a bitter, purse-lipped old diva trying to remain relevant at the close of her career and terribly deluded by her sense of self-importance.
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Regardless of her achievements, I find her too smug, elitist, and insufferable.
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She has a reputation for being overly hard on her staff plus it is sad that in order to pay her high contract costs the station wound up having to lay off people. If she really cared about people, she would have taken less money so that the laid off people could have kept their jobs.
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Ha, javagirl1 that made me like her more too…
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Agreed, Harry Smith deserves the anchor chair after CBS screwed him. He was the ONLY reason to watch the Early Show – that Maggie Rodriguez chick was the most smug, anti-liberal, pro-Republican anchor around, and the two pieces of sparkly cardboard on now (all the glitter in the world won’t make them interesting) make me want to go back to sleep. Harry is personable, interesting, goofy and self-deprecating without being a snore. Bring him back, CBS, and redeem yourselves.
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who will replace her?
who cares? they could replace her with a trained monkey… and for a LOT
less money.
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Maybe Harry Smith will work for “less” than a trained monkey!
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WORLD OF WARCRAFT?!?!?!?!?
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