Ha ha...nanner nanner, told ya.

[Okla-homey]

from Drudge:

Katie Couric CBS 'EVENING NEWS' premiered with a 9.1 household, metered market rating and fell continuously thereafter: 9.1--7.0--6.5--4.9. Friday's household rating earned Katie third place... Developing...


My prediction all along – Perky Katie is nothing more than a failed experiment. Nobody wants to watch the “Today Show” at supper time. If CBS would only have hired Lestor Holt (a real man), they’d be rockin 6 months from now – but nobody ever listens to me.

[Ike]

Honestly, I don't know if its Katie's fault or the networks. It seems to me that the network put a lot of effort into "presenting" her on the evening news and that that was, in my opinion, totally counterproductive. Had they simply sat her at the news desk and let her do what news folks are supposed to do, I think they would have gotten better results.

[royalfan5]

What people still watch the network news? I have maybe watched the network news 5 times in the last 10 years, and I don't think I have missed much either.

[Hatfield]

it killed her to have such soft stories on her opener.

[Okla-homey]

it killed her to have such soft stories on her opener.

yep, the least they could have done was make-up some government scandal or doctor up some TX ANG documents for her to "break" to the adoring masses.

[RacerX]

Rocks are hard.
Water is wet.

[handcrafted]

What's the over-under on how long she'll last?

[jk the sooner fan]

What people still watch the network news? I have maybe watched the network news 5 times in the last 10 years, and I don't think I have missed much either.

apparently the 45ish and over crowd still watch it pretty heavily

[mikeelikee]

They'll give her about a year, and then the boot!

[KABOOKIE]

All my news comes right here at the SO and Homey and JK are as perky as it gets....

[C&CDean]

She lost all credibility when she invited us all up her pooper.

[sooneron]

apparently the 45ish and over crowd still watch it pretty heavily
Yeah, the one's that aren't putting in 50+ hours a week like us young'uns!;)

I don't think I know of anyone that is home by 6:30 to settle in for the national news. Maybe gubment workers...

[C&CDean]

Yeah, the one's that aren't putting in 50+ hours a week like us young'uns!;)

I don't think I know of anyone that is home by 6:30 to settle in for the national news. Maybe gubment workers...

I'm old, but I ain't seen "the evening news" in probably 15 years. If it comes on during daylight, I haven't seen it.

[sooneron]

Even on days when I am not working, (freelance) I don't turn it on.

[Xstnlsooner]

I'm over 45 and I work 50+ per week, but I don't watch the nerdworks
for news. I watch fox and take it all with two grains of salt.

"Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see!"

[sooneron]

Guys, there was a ****ing smiley in my post! :rolleyes:


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[yermom]

apparently JK and Homey still watch it pretty heavily

fixed ;)

[NormanPride]

geez, ron. Harsh much?



;)

[TUSooner]

You mean Walter Cronkhite's gone?
Please tell me we still have Huntley & Brinkley...



I haven't watched the nightly news in even longer than Dean

[BeetDigger]

...– but nobody ever listens to me.


Huh? Did you say something?

[Tailwind]

Katie who?

[Okla-homey]

Katie who?

precisely. I mean, you wouldn't take a evening news reader named Sammy or Timmy seriously, and ditto a Katie or Susie.

Lester Holt wuz robbed

[Tailwind]

I don't watch the news, it's too depressing and I usually wanna smack the spit outta the newspeople.

[StoopTroup]

Once they get Matt Lauer on there with her...

They will enjoy a 12 share IMO. :D

[jk the sooner fan]

what i despise most about the mainstream media, is that they try like hell to tell us what we should be offended about, or not

case in point - the comments made by Ahhnold out in california, about the latina......the woman who the comments were directed at said she had absolutely no problem with what he said - it should have stopped there, but it didnt....

[Scott D]

apparently the 45ish and over crowd still watch it pretty heavily

before or after their nightly metamucil sippin, housecoat and slipper time with popcorn for Matlock reruns? :D