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
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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I didn't know Katie could be so cruel. I lost respect for her after making a fool of Palin ON PURPOSE. I am looking forward to watching the news again on CBS.
Maybe she can take Ed Schultz 's place , and add her name to the long list of Loosers
Who is catie kourck? Whatever...
She is the poor man's Jane Pauley CBS hired in a feeble attempt to capitalize on the "Kelly Ripa vibe" they hoped to create on their news set. Another lamestream media massive fail in the hopes of white washing the evil of obongoism.
lending a new usage to the job description.
No longer "network anchor", it's now "network boat anchor". You'd need an invisible monkey to make it better.
Consider..... an anchor is used by a boat to keep it from going anywhere. Hmmmm....
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.