"Katie Girl" getting plungered in ratings....

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:32 pm

...Helluva bad week for Liberal hacks, what with Air (No) Amerika filling bankruptcy, and now this for Couric....

Worst Week of Ratings for Katie Couric

By DAVID BAUDER
AP
NEW YORK (Oct. 9) - The fifth week was the toughest for Katie Couric, whose viewership on the "CBS Evening News" has dropped each week since her debut the day after Labor Day.

Her broadcast averaged 7.04 million viewers last week, third to NBC's "Nightly News" (8.56 million) and ABC's "World News" (7.97 million), according to Nielsen Media Research.

CBS points out that the "CBS Evening News" is the only one of the three network newscasts with more viewers last week than the same week a year earlier. NBC's margin of victory last year was 2.2 million.

"Where we were last week or even in the weeks to come is not as important as where we are next year and even the year after that," said CBS News President Sean McManus. "As we have said from the very beginning, we are focused on the long term and on making slow and steady progress, which we are doing."...in other words...holy hell what do we do now?

But the steady erosion is a discouraging sign, especially after 13.6 million people tuned in for Couric's first broadcast.

Last week was a strong one for ABC's "World News," which sent anchor Charles Gibson to Amish country to follow up the school shooting story; neither Couric nor Brian Williams traveled for that story. ABC News may also have benefited from Brian Ross leading the way on the scandal involving congressional pages.

The week before, the only other week Gibson had defeated Couric in the ratings, it was by only 100,000 viewers.

On Tuesday, when Gibson was in Pennsylvania, "World News" tied NBC's "Nightly News" in the ratings, well ahead of CBS.

Some in the news industry were surprised that CBS didn't send Couric to that story, particularly given her work on the scene of the Columbine school shooting for the "Today" show was among her most memorable.

Executives considered sending Couric to Pennsylvania, said Rome Hartman, executive producer of the "CBS Evening News," but he said that with the congressional page scandal, the Amish tragedy wasn't the only major story of the week. He said he believed CBS reported more extensively on the shooting the day it happened than any of its rivals.

Asked whether he believed the decision to keep Couric in New York hurt CBS, Hartman said: "You can overthink things, and I'm trying not to, because it's such a long-haul deal."

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:50 pm

Never watched her, never will. Didn't like her whenever I accidentally stumbled upon her fluff interviews before, can't imagine liking her anymore now

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:58 pm

I think CM must watch the "liberal hacks" a lot more than any "liberals" do.

Is Couric supposed to be "liberal"? I never knew that. I thought they hired her for her legs.
What do you think of her legs, CM?

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:48 am

Mikey wrote:Is Couric supposed to be "liberal"? I never knew that.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I see.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:15 pm

Mikey wrote:I think CM must watch the "liberal hacks" a lot more than any "liberals" do.

Is Couric supposed to be "liberal"? I never knew that. I thought they hired her for her legs.
What do you think of her legs, CM?

...suppose to be...HELL NO!, she's suppose to be an unbiased news reporter, but yes Mikey she's what we call over here a "flaming" unabsahed Left Wing liberal rhetoric spewing hag.

Her legs, you betcha :D

Terry in Crapchester · Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:33 am

poptart wrote:
Mikey wrote:Is Couric supposed to be "liberal"? I never knew that.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I see.

Neither is Couric, for that matter.

If CBS' hire had been based on projecting a liberal bias, they quite easily could've found someone with a lot more gravitas than Katie Perky. This is the network that once had Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite as anchors, for chrissakes.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:55 pm

poptart wrote:
Mikey wrote:Is Couric supposed to be "liberal"? I never knew that.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, I see.

Actually, just someone who doesn't watch the network news or weekday morning shows.
From this I assume you regularly tune in?

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:28 pm

Does she still do features on things like

* the best recipe for baked ham?
* a man who collects harmonicas?
* an exclusive interview with the grandson of Charles Nelson Reilly?

That Today Show stuff is really nails.

Actually, I haven't watched the evening news since Al Gore invented and installed the Internet at my house.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:45 pm

Uncle Fester wrote:Does she still do features on things like

* the best recipe for baked ham?
* a man who collects harmonicas?
* an exclusive interview with the grandson of Charles Nelson Reilly?

That Today Show stuff is really nails.

Actually, I haven't watched the evening news since Al Gore invented and installed the Internet at my house.

dammit!! I got so screwed. Some guy named frank installed my internet.

You're a lucky bastard, Fester.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:50 am

Maybe she'd get better ratings if she showed us her tits.

Then again, at her age, maybe not