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All but done.... to be announced tomorrow.
Awful move for her, Today Show apparently offered her "millions" more to stay, but she wanted a "new challenge". I will miss seeing those legs every day....
Meredith Vieira is set to be the replacement
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Katie Couric will announce that she’s leaving the "Today" show tomorrow morning during her 15th anniversary celebration.
Expect this in the second half-hour of the show — between 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. — when they roll out a cake and show clips of her many hairstyles. At that point, Katie is expected to say it’s been a grand ride, but that it’s time for a change.
The news is no shock at this point. The fact that Couric is leaving to anchor the "CBS Evening News" is the least well-kept secret in broadcasting since Howard Stern left regular radio for satellite.
But it’s a big deal in so many ways: Couric inherits the brass ring in network news. Even if CBS’ crown is tarnished, it’s still considered — if only sentimentally — the standard in broadcast journalism.
Of course, Katie won’t be the first woman there. That distinction belongs to Connie Chung, who briefly co-anchored with Dan Rather years ago. It was a disaster, but like all disasters the Chung episode was one more kick against the glass ceiling.
After Katie makes her announcement on "Today," expect Meredith Vieira to tell her fans on “The View†that she’s leaving to fill Couric’s spot. And then, who knows? Maybe Star Jones will come running in and kick out the imposter who took her place several months ago. Anything is possible!
Couric, as I told you weeks ago, actually takes a pay cut to leave "Today." If she’d stayed, NBC would have anted her up to around $20 million a year. At CBS she will earn only a little bit more than she’s making now: $13 million. But she’ll have the advantage of not waking up at 5 a.m. every day, and getting to be part of the prestigious “60 Minutes†team when possible.
She’ll also be able to dictate changes in the way network news is presented, because her version will be different: more interviews in the studio, and less dependence on outside correspondents.
In fact, the only way that Couric’s ascension to this throne will be worth it is if her “Evening News†becomes a destination for channel surfers. And that will mean hard-charging producers steering her toward hard-to-get subjects on the day the news happens.
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i can't believe she gets $13 million a year for that shit. unreal.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:38 am Posts: 5575 Location: Sydney, NSW
I hate this woman. She's such a goddamned phoney.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:38 am Posts: 5575 Location: Sydney, NSW
Japhy Ryder wrote:
shades-go-down wrote:
I hate this woman. She's such a goddamned phoney.
easy there, holden.
I wasn't even thinking of Holden when I said it!
Though I must say I feel like he's based on me whenever I read it.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
They could have picked a more flattering pic of her. for god's sake, she looks like the joker.
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the people who stand outside at 6 am every day to see her and Lauer are idiots.
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Joined: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 2783 Location: Boston, MA
They can pay me $100,000 a year to read off a teleprompter, then they can do whatever they want with the leftover $11.9 million. And people complain that pro athletes make so much
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:09 pm Posts: 9363 Location: Manhattan Beach California
Dr. Gonzo wrote:
They can pay me $100,000 a year to read off a teleprompter, then they can do whatever they want with the leftover $11.9 million. And people complain that pro athletes make so much
the Today show profits over 1 million dollars per episode...you can hold out for a bit more
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Doug RR wrote:
Dr. Gonzo wrote:
They can pay me $100,000 a year to read off a teleprompter, then they can do whatever they want with the leftover $11.9 million. And people complain that pro athletes make so much
the Today show profits over 1 million dollars per episode...you can hold out for a bit more
the people who stand outside at 6 am every day to see her and Lauer are tourists.
on the list of "touristy" things to do in NYC, standing outside in the cold for hours waiting for Matt and Katie to MAYBE acknowledge your presence ranks somewhere between getting mugged on the subway and having your picture taken with the naked cowboy.
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-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:09 pm Posts: 9363 Location: Manhattan Beach California
Dr. Gonzo wrote:
Doug RR wrote:
Dr. Gonzo wrote:
They can pay me $100,000 a year to read off a teleprompter, then they can do whatever they want with the leftover $11.9 million. And people complain that pro athletes make so much
the Today show profits over 1 million dollars per episode...you can hold out for a bit more
I'm comfortable with the 100g's.
You'd have to commute from the bronx or jersey on that salary
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:38 am Posts: 5575 Location: Sydney, NSW
Demetrios wrote:
kiddo wrote:
They could have picked a more flattering pic of her. for god's sake, she looks like the joker.
Yeah kiddo... it's because she's full of botox and is a goddamned phoney. She kills me.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
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