CBS hasn’t yet announced that Katie Couric is leaving the Evening News, but it doesn’t have to. They can let their ratings do the talking.
The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days.
The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low. (Ratings records date back to the 1991-’92 season.) Last week, NBC averaged 7.42 million total viewers and ABC averaged 6.51 million.Erica Hill filled in on Tuesday and Harry Smith was in Wednesday. Couric anchored from New York Monday and from Afghanistan on Thursday and Friday.
Long gone are the days when news anchors went to war zones to improve their ratings. War zones are apparently safer than news rooms on the day the ratings come out.
Source: MediaBistro.com
