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Add to FavoritesKatie Couric should not share her anchor chair. That concept does not work on the evening nightly network news. That concept has so many examples of failure such as ABC Harry Reasoner, Barbara Walters,NBC Tom Brokaw,Roger Mudd,CBS Dan Rather, Connie Chung. The era of Huntley,Brinkley is long over, with twenty four hour news channels such as CNN its unnecessary.
Katie Couric is a multi award winning newswoman she is very capable of anchoring the CBS Evening News solo. The jealous print media been writing negative stories of her tenure in that chair since she left NBC. When she first started on the CBS Evening News the management there handle her, its newscast wrong for one. They tryed to be different from they competitors not taking in consideration of its loyal viewers of CBS Evening News. That broadcast has always been widely known, respected as being the most news broadcast then its competitors with Walter Cronkite,Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer in the solo anchor chair.
The management at CBS News was also trying to bring the Today Show to the CBS Evening News. Yes Katie made her mark, her reputation while co-hosting the top rated NBC Today Show but its a different platform, time,in some degree audience.
She has since regain her footing as solo anchor of the CBS Evening News during the recent national political process. She especially regain her tough always well prepared excellent interviewing during the recent presidential elections. She actually made america take a very hard look at vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and presidential candidate John McCain after her one on one, then they joint interviews with them.
She showed why easily she is regarded as a excellent interviewer, very worthy, qualified for this job. Her broadcast under executive producer Rick Kaplan a former ep of world news tonight with the late great Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel Nightline is now gaining in viewers.The broadcast still holds the title as the most news newscast then its competitors,its reporting is also top notch. They do need to get better subsitutes in her absence similar to when Dan Rather was off. He usually had Bob Schieffer, Leslie Stahl and the late great 60 minutes man Ed Bradley backing him up. CBS News Management needs to hire Forrest Sawyer for that job now. She is a very good newswoman, she does not need to share a 22minute newscast with anyone.
Katie Couric is a very good, very talented newswoman. Her credentials are impeccable, she is very authoratative.
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YES: Rumors are rife that CBS evening news' Katie Couric will soon get a co-anchor. Industry rumors say that pairing her up with a male newsman will be an attempt to boost her sagging ratings. Now, the rumor mill is grinding out guesses as to just who is considered strong enough to team with Couric.
After 15 years on the morning desk, Couric left NBC's Today Show to take over the CBS anchor job 18 months ago. Since then, her evening news program has consistently scored lower in viewership numbers than the competing ABC and CBS prime time news programs. Even a recent on-the-scene reporting trip to Iraq's war zone failed to boost Katie's ratings.
The network hasn't made any official announcements yet about the co-anchor search. While there's no official word yet about who will share Couric's chair, rumors put Anderson Cooper as the leading candidate. Cooper, at age 40, ten years younger than Couric, is currently the anchor of CNN's, "Anderson Cooper 360".
Although true annual salaries of TV news personalities are confidential, most insiders say Couric currently takes home $20 million, while Cooper's CNN pay is said to be a mere $2 million. Of course, if he moves up to the more traditionally prestigious network, it will rise considerably. Whether he would be considered an equal and it would match Couric's enormous paycheck is yet another question.
However, no one would need to take up a collection to pay Cooper a higher salary. He already has a few bucks in his mattress. His mother is old-money heiress and fashion guru Gloria Vanderbilt, so the amount of money CBS may offer to lure him away from CNN may be moot.
Silver-haired Anderson Cooper is known in the news business as a somewhat flashy, but hard-working, competent reporter. He would bring a fresh face and a lively presence to the sagging evening news program. Sorry, Katie, but you really do need someone like Cooper to share your chair.
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