Life After Katie

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Is Katie Couric giving up the anchor chair at CBS?
Published 4/10/2008 by Tempo at The Watcher
... The Wall Street Journal has a story saying Katie Couric is on the way out as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. The former Today anchor may leave after the presidential elections in fall, according to the WSJ. However, in a ...

Katie Couric Does Hamlet: To Leave Or Not To Leave
Published 4/11/2008 by Joel Brown at TV with MeeVee
... that the whole situation has mushroomed to the point that Couric might split before the presidential election. One exit strategy - taking over Larry King's CNN gig. Not sure Larry will be happy about that suggestion. Meanwhile, Time's James Poniewozik explicates Couric's ratings failure as part of a larger trend, the decline of the network evening newscast. Nobody is worth $15 million a year in the anchor chair anymore, he says. Nobody. ...

The Takeaway: Will Katie Couric Stay or Go?
Published 4/11/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... Time: Couric's $15 million-a-year salary made failure inevitable, premised, as it was, on an entirely delusional belief that any anchor could reverse the historical trend of declining evening news ratings. ...