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Title: Couric’s Future Questioned at CBS
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NY Mag
URL Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/0 ... cs_future_questioned_at_c.html
Published: Jul 21, 2010
Author: NA
Post Date: 2010-07-21 18:52:52 by reaganisright
Keywords: libtards, overpriced, whore
Views: 10765
Comments: 30
This past spring, CBS News president Sean McManus and executive vice-president Paul Friedman discussed whether to try to bring an end to what may be the last great experiment in network news: Katie Couric, anchorwoman. Though her reported $15 million annual contract is not up until next June, one idea that was floated was for CBS to buy out the remainder of Couric's contract this September and put in someone new this fall, according to people familiar with the conversation. Executives were perhaps also concerned about the bad publicity that might result from a long contract negotiation with Couric, especially if she ended up leaving. McManus didn't want to make an early move, and CBS CEO Leslie Moonves was also against moving so quickly. “Leslie is incredibly supportive,” one person familiar with Moonves's thinking explained. “Moonves and Katie have an excellent relationship.” Couric, too, is considering her options, according to sources familiar with her thinking. While her name circulated as a possible successor to Larry King at CNN, Couric is open to a range of television ideas at various networks, including remaining at CBS. A spokesperson for CBS News declined to comment on internal conversations. Couric's spokesperson, Matthew Hiltzik, told me that “Katie is enjoying her job and is focused on her work. And we'll leave the speculation to everyone else.” Couric may even wind up back at NBC. According to people with knowledge of the matter, NBC CEO Jeff Zucker has communicated to Couric's agent, Alan Berger at CAA, that NBC would welcome Couric's return when she is available. One issue for Couric to weigh in a possible deal with NBC would be Zucker's fate after the Comcast merger closes, and whether it would be smarter to wait and do a deal with Comcast executives. And Couric herself sees the media writing on the wall. Her next act in TV will likely be part of a larger media brand she hopes to build around content she creates. Television will be an important platform, but Couric over the past year has aggressively sought to establish herself online, through a weekly web interview show and frequent Twitter updates. One thought is that she would create her own production company. No decisions about Couric's future have been reached, and right now CBS seems content to see how things play out. But for Moonves and CBS, the conversations about Couric's future at the Evening News raise larger questions about the role of broadcast news in this media environment and whether CBS remains in the broadcast news business for the long haul. This spring, Moonves directed CBS executives to consider a news partnership with CNN, rekindling long-running talks between CBS and CNN about a deal to share news-gathering resources. While Turner Broadcasting CEO Phil Kent and lawyers for Turner and CBS discussed how the news partnership would work, neither side could resolve issues of editorial control and the CBS union contracts that have derailed earlier negotiations. Since then, the talks have stalled, though that's not to say a deal, given the right climate, couldn't be hammered out eventually. Whatever the case, the discussions over Couric's future represent a growing awareness that the Couric experiment, however successful journalisticaly, was a failure in terms of reinvigorating the TV news business. A leading internal candidate to replace Couric is 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, a highly respected correspondent but one with a fairly traditional skill set, suggesting that Moonves has given up on reinventing the news. These info babes are mostly like Zero, just teleprompter readers. Like Sam Donaldson who didn't understand a flat tax. My uncle pulled one of the first out of the Delaware Canal after her "boyfriend" backed the car in and drowned her. Babwa Wawa doesn't count, what a POS. Jessica Savitch, on her way to NY and the big lights. Never got there. I did a simulated newscast in college with a girl who was at least as good any girl back then. Took her less time to get the gig down as a college student in class than it did to have that Jewish station in Baltimore pull that wasteproduct POS off the air and return from her reading and speaking lessons. That was Oprah, she was horrible, so were their ratings.
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#1. To: reaganisright (#0)
I bet all you did regarding girls in college was simulated.
Badeye has a gay crush on ABBA
That's to say all you ever did was beat off.
Badeye has a gay crush on ABBA
As opposed to you, Abdul the fudge-packer?
At it again PanZ? A) Oprah still has the highest rated local program in the Baltimore/DC area from when she was there. B) She was so fucking bad when she was there that she was hired away by a Chicago at 8x's her salary to replace one of their guys who was leaving...that guy? Phil Donahue. The she went there and beat him in the ratings... Here's a helpful hint, Lite Loafers...when you lie, at least make it interesting for the reader.
His whole gaoddammed life is simulated. I've seen liars and I've seen liars.
Say what you will about Sam Donaldson,he was the ONLY reporter in the White House press corps that knew he should yell out "Did you rape Juanita Broderick,Mr.President?" when Clinton was going through his "run for the helicopter and pretend nobody is asking questions" phase. Donaldson not only did this once,but he did it a second time when Bubba-1 failed to respond.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Oprah was hired to be "The black spot on yore dial",period. Her producers knew the majority of the afternoon tv watchers were fat women,and they KNEW a fat woman would gain their viewership. Take the speaker out of her ear,and she has the reasoning ability of a slow toad.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
You're out of your mind. Plus...she wasn't fat then...
Much like war and his group of "independents".
She was hired by a Jewish owned station, they were desperate. I forget the crap that went down around that time but I think they were the station dropped by either NBC or CBS. The networks changed affiliation at the end of the contract. The better network dropped the Jewish station, HQ is south of Towson on York road. There was talk the third network would move out of VHF and go to a conservative UHF channel like Sinclair Broadcasting. Didn't happen. The third network caved and picked up CH 2. After all the Westinghouse sales and license change I don't remember who owned what over 30 years ago. And all three VHF stations in Baltimore have changed affiliation IIRC, one that didn't might be ABC. Oprah was so pathetic she couldn't read a teleprompter and speak on the air. I was there. Might make some wonder why Barack's speeches are so slow and intermittent. Like he's trying to comprehend the teleprompter and deliver the crapola that was written for him. Listening to Zero brings back memories of her failure to read the teleprompter in a timely fashion. Stunted speech, misprounonced words, SSDD. This station almost lost it's network affiliation to an UHF station, that's about as low as it goes. They were dumped and only picked up because they were VHF.
Is it time to take out the trash? Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:48:27 by A K A Stone We know who you mean.
I'm guessing you never heard of Les Kinsolving, he may not have asked that question but he has asked much more direct questions that have been swept aside and ignored. The people in charge do not have to take real questions from "the little people". They just sweep them under the rug.
Is it time to take out the trash? Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:48:27 by A K A Stone We know who you mean.
Oprah is a racist. I think you probably are too.
You hate Muslims, Jews and Negroes. Look in the mirror, bigoted Stoner.
I dislike liars, muslims, illegals, queers and all the rest of what makes up the group known as liberals.
Guess I will have to add you to my list of liars. Maybe I should start an asshole list too, huh?
You have so many hates, I can't remember them all. But I'm the liar...sure.
You'd be on or near the top of anyone's asshole list. You should be proud.
Good guess. I haven't.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Bullshit. You've never shown any evidence of that...
More lies from you Lite Loafers... She worked at WJZ which was a Group W ABC affiliate all through her tenure there.
Alphabetically, you're at the top of the list...
Local to Baltimore neocon Moonbat. He'a a birther too...you'd like that about him.
Les Kinsolving is over 80 yo and commutes at high speed from his home in VA every day to WCBM radio in Pikesville, MD. He tried to go national more than once and hasn't made it. His latest is a morning update like Rush and Sean. He's not my cup of tea, I change the station when he's on. I forgot to add Oprah was pulled from her first anchor spot and sent to remedial reading before she was reinstated. She was also Miss Tennessee or in some kind of beauty pageant. She really astounded me in "Color Purple", I couldn't believe it was the same woman I used to change the channel on as soon as I saw her.
Is it time to take out the trash? Post Date: 2010-07-14 11:48:27 by A K A Stone We know who you mean.
She still isn't .... on her magazine covers.
Couric was brought in to close down the News Division. Thats all.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Several people who have been on her show all say the same thing,that she is as dumb as a box of rocks. What you see and hear on tv is what the producers in the control room are telling her to say through the speaker she wears in her ear. Her former guests have said that the change in her is shocking when they go to commercials and are no longer on the air and the producers aren't whispering in her ear. She is a meat puppet. She has not only made multi-millions for herself,but she has made her producers multi-millions,also.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
A) Oprah doesn't wear an IBF. B) Producers don't tell anyone on set anything. That's a directors job. C) The "Producers" of the Oprah show are Oprah.
Yeah,she does. I have even seen and heard her make references to somebody speaking into her ear from the control room. B) Producers don't tell anyone on set anything. That's a directors job. Is there some sort of law that makes it illegal for a producer to also be a director?
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Okay...I'll back up on this...she used to use old style hand signs from an asst. director just off of her stage right camera. That may have changed. It used to not be the case. I sent a buddy of mine - who is the Program Director for a major cable network - an email asking him. She produces her show...a PA is NOT going to tell her how to shoot her show. You're falling into a trap here, sneak. Oprah is brilliant and capable. She knows her audience and she knows her medium. She's become THE model for Prime Time TV talk shows. She changed morning TV in this nation in a way only Dave Garroway had prior to her. Give PanZBoy credibility at your own risk.
Oh,BullBarrack! She a fat black Phil Donahue with a vagina. Well,to be fair,I have always suspected Phil has a vagina,too. I will grant you that she knows her audience. Fat housewives and unemployed women who sit around all day and watch tv.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
I did a simulated newscast in college with a girl
#2. To: All (#1)
#3. To: Abu el Banat (#2)
That's to say all you ever did was beat off.
#4. To: Pan-Z-Boy (#0)
(Edited)
#5. To: Abu el Banat (#1)
#6. To: reaganisright (#0)
Like Sam Donaldson who didn't understand a flat tax.
#7. To: war (#4)
B) She was so fucking bad when she was there that she was hired away by a Chicago at 8x's her salary to replace one of their guys who was leaving...that guy? Phil Donahue. The she went there and beat him in the ratings...
#8. To: sneakypete (#7)
#9. To: sneakypete, war (#7)
she has the reasoning ability of a slow toad.
#10. To: sneakypete (#7)
Oprah was hired to be "The black spot on yore dial",period.
#11. To: sneakypete (#7)
#12. To: war (#4)
#13. To: A K A Stone (#12)
#14. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone (#13)
You hate Muslims, Jews and Negroes. Look in the mirror, bigoted Stoner.
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#13)
#16. To: A K A Stone (#15)
#17. To: A K A Stone (#15)
#18. To: reaganisright (#11)
I'm guessing you never heard of Les Kinsolving
#19. To: A K A Stone (#12)
I think...
#20. To: Paz-Z-Boy (#10)
#21. To: A K A Stone (#15)
Maybe I should start an asshole list too, huh?
#22. To: sneakypete (#18)
#23. To: sneakypete (#18)
#24. To: war (#8)
Plus...she wasn't fat then...
"To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals,
or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees." - ShakesPalin
#25. To: reaganisright (#0)
#26. To: reaganisright (#23)
She really astounded me in "Color Purple", I couldn't believe it was the same woman I used to change the channel on as soon as I saw her.
#27. To: sneakypete (#26)
(Edited)
#28. To: war (#27)
A) Oprah doesn't wear an IBF.
#29. To: sneakypete (#28)
Yeah,she does. I have even seen and heard her make references to somebody speaking into her ear from the control room. `
#30. To: war (#29)
You're falling into a trap here, sneak. Oprah is brilliant and capable. She knows her audience and she knows her medium. She's become THE model for Prime Time TV talk shows. She changed morning TV in this nation in a way only Dave Garroway had prior to her.
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