WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2005
New York Observer
To get
Katie Couric, CBS reportedly will have to pay about $20 million a year, with a contract length of seven years. "If anyone’s gonna pay that, it’s [CBS News president]
Sean [McManus]," says one CBS staffer. "He mortgaged the next century of the network to bring football back and he’ll spend what it takes to get Katie."
PLUS: Will
Elizabeth Vargas and
Bob Woodruff lure young viewers to ABC's "World News Tonight"?
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Couric: CBS move is "something I'm thinking long and hard about" (NYP)
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Ex-co-anchor Chung has high hopes for ABC's new co-anchors (Inquirer)
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Vargas and Woodruff are social pals, but rarely worked together (LAT)
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Vargas was told long ago, repeatedly, she was no good as an anchor (CT)
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Two-anchor decision a "curious solution to a thorny problem" (MW)Posted at 9:45:53 AM
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