Report: CBS Wants Couric to Take Significant Pay Cut
- Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:59pm by
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Howard Kurtz over at the Daily Beast reports CBS News has asked current evening news anchor Katie Couric to stay with the network after her contract expires in May, but it’s asked her to take a “significantly” lower payout than her current $15 million annual salary.
Kurtz reports:
The network, which is shaking up its management, has asked anchor Katie Couric to stay on through the 2012 elections—for significantly less money than her original $15 million deal, a source tells Howard Kurtz.
CBS has asked Katie Couric to stay on as anchor after her lucrative contract expires at the end of May, a source familiar with the situation tells The Daily Beast.
While negotiations have not yet started and a deal might fail to materialize, this is the first concrete indication that Les Moonves, the company’s chief executive, has made a decision on extending her deal.
The reason may be that the “CBS Evening News” — which Couric anchors — has continued to be the number three national evening news program since she took over:
The CBS Evening News remains in third place, as it was when Couric took over, and by that measure her stint has been a disappointment. The broadcast averaged 7.4 million viewers last week, when Couric reported from Egypt, and that was its best week since 2009. But with Brian Williams also in Egypt, she still trailed NBC Nightly News, which had 11.3 million viewers, and Diane Sawyer’s World News, which averaged 9.8 million.
Yesterday it was announced that CBS News realigned its top news executives, naming Jeff Fager the new president of the news division. Fager, Kurtz says, “would not have accepted the job unless he had been assured that he would have a major role in the upcoming [Couric] decision.”
Read the full story from Howard Kurtz.
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Comments (248)
mcpbob
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:33pmthe boat is sinken……fast
Report Post »KbJockey
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 5:19pmHow about moving her from News Anchor to Boat Anchor.
Report Post »Rigged up with SCUBA gear of course so she doesn’t drown.
YaDarnTootin
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:11amAnchors AWAY!
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:32pmWhen you take into account her many mistakes and lack of knowledge on such a wide range of topics, I think she owes the public for her many years of disservice. If they’ve got to keep her, I suppose $15,000 a year as a part time researcher might be fair.
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:06pmI really dislike couric… We just turn the channel where she is concerned.
Report Post »she should just leave, period
I SPY
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:32pmWhen does Obama take his pay cut?
Report Post »sandyn
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:26pmThe logic of having to cut the news department to save money and then have a $15 million bimbo read AP/UPI/ Reuters bulletins to us has always struck me as somewhat flawed.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:26pmShe may be getting significantly less in wages but when her health care kicks in she will be more than compensated and at her age….. well, goodbye katie.
Report Post »Sister_Mary
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:25pmWell as Big O says – sooner or later you make too much money .. I say offer her $250,000 and watch her laugh…. Remember folks ‘Socialism is for the people… not for the socialists” !!!!!
Report Post »2gether
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:52pmI agree sister and the with all the money left over they can help pay down the deficit!
Report Post »Sirhogin
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 6:11pmTough`e !
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:25pmHas Katie ever had a real thought, one that is formed from knowledge not emotions? I don’t think so! She’s a simpleton always has been but some people like her, She‘s possibably a nice person but she’s got a very large head and it’s empty!
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:36pmHow quickly you forget about the interview of Sarah Palin’s lifetime.
COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign-policy experience. What did you mean by that?
PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land — boundary that we have with — Canada. It, it’s funny that a comment like that was — kind of made to cari — I don’t know. You know. Reporters —
COURIC: Mocked?
PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.
COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.
PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our— our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They’re in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia—
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We— we do— it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where— where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is— from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to— to our state.
Classic!
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:52pmakmllkeus, if you remembered that off the top of your head, you have to let go man. Sarah has really gotten to you. You should go back to moveon.org before you have a breakdown or a stroke. Just get some counseling in case she becomes President.
Report Post »poetopoet
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:46pmRichard Compton, Sarah Palin is brilliant and was one of the 50 state governors, not one of the 57 states Obama eludes to, from to time to time. Obama is a freak of nature, half and half, not black, not white, just racially screwed up, as most racists that claim to be white or black.
Report Post »bwesty
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:22pmsignificant pay cut…translation…time to go katie!
Report Post »hdrider
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:19pmGreat!! Starting june 1st, 2011, she can join Al Gor-em and Olgor-mun on current TV.
Report Post »blanco
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:16pmSaid in the tone of the bully on The Simpons—”HA-ha”!!!!
Report Post »bwesty
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:15pmSignificant pay cut=time for you to go katie!
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:14pm“news anchor ”..“NEWS anchor”…..really…?
I thought she was a teleprompter reader.
Report Post »ConservativeFeminist
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:14pmCBS should ask that Couric apologize to Palin and her family before offering a job.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:32pmApoligize for exposing Sarah Palin for the ignorant idiot that she is???
That day should be a National holiday.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:12pmAKMIIKEUS
Report Post »Idiot? Compare your bank account up against hers? She’s no idiot?
1TrueOne55
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:56pm@Capt
Report Post »It is not a bank account that makes you smarter than a rock it is time spent in life and the life you live. Liberals believe that murder of defenseless children before they take their first breathe is smart. I will take stupid all day long since My God says that these children need defending.
Slap Shot
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:14pmWatch it she may jump to Al Jazeera where she is a much better fit.
Report Post »Slap Shot
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:27pmWANTED – Over the hill woman news anchor wanted for prime time muslim network. Must hate America and have experience lying and cheating to advance your own warp agenda. Must love
Report Post »Muslin Brotherhood a plus. Contact 1 – 800 – Al – Jazeera
hottips2011
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:40pmAt least of she‘s on Al Jazwhatever maybe she’ll be “en burqua”
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:11pmShe’s a has been and needs to be put out to pasture . Over at msnbc
Report Post »ares338
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:11pmBwaahaahaaahaahaahaahh!
Report Post »SteamedinMichigan
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:09pmI can lie and slant the news for considerably less money…heck, i’ll put a liberal bias on all things for only 5 mil a year!!!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:08pmHer better than thou liberal ego will not stand for this – She is going to move to the View
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:12pmjakartaman
Report Post »Good…who watches that anyway….well I did once…Glenn Beck was on it.
stacybernardslay
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:07pmI am disappointed she didn’t wear the t-shirt I made for her in Egypt. It says in Arabic ” I voted for Jimmy Carter twice! Your Welcome!”
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:14pmCan I get one of those T-shirts?? I hope that it’s “one-size-fits-all”…..
Report Post »JOHNNYROTEN
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:01amis that the one with blood all around the neck ??
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:06pmLet’s see –
Report Post »Katie Couric — liberal, slants news, kisses butt
Brian Williams — liberal, slants news, kisses butt
Diane Sawyer — liberal, slants news, kisses butt
Bret Baer — Conservative at Fox News; he reports; we decide.
TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:08pmgood work showtime, you spend a lot of time on that?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:13pm@TermLimitsNow –
Report Post »No — I had to go potty.
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:24pmFox News can only dream about ratings that high.
What is Fox’s #1 show? Bill O? How many viewers? 3.3 million?
CBS is the #3 network and the mainstream media still is tops in this country.
Report Post »Fox might be #1 in cable news but not even close in the mainstream media.
Blackhawk1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:29pmThat‘s because the poor urban liberals can’t afford cable. The taxpayers aren’t providing it for them yet so all they have is the alphabet news losers.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:34pmBut we’re the elite BlackHawk.
We graduated from Harvard, Yale, Standford, etc…..you’ve heard of these colleges.
Report Post »The schools you could never get into.
DashRipRock
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:51pmAKMIKEUS
Nice try…
But for what one thirty second ad costs on Fox.
You could pay for the day at CBS
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:03pm@AKMIIKEUS
Ah yes the Ivy liberal schools. Sorry my SAT’s and IQ were to high to go into the indoctrination schools. Instead I graduated from a University were I actually learned something.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:44pmYeah I’m sure you went the Sarah Palin route.
4 colleges, 7 years
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 6:56pmI see that AkMIIKEUS could only stay around for a couple of lies before she had to do a fluff job for George Soros…..that means the adults can continue to discuss the story without further trolling!
Report Post »finwe
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:36pm@AKMIIKEUS
lol, you’re the elite? Too bad you‘re probably an urban uneducated liberal that got offended by Blackhawk’s comment. I also seem to recall lib’s screaming that conservatives were in bed with “big business.” Now what does big business mean? I’m pretty sure that statement means big dollars.
Report Post »hickoryrat
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 4:10pm@akmiikeus
I applied to harvard but was turned down.
My parents were married!
V
Report Post »CrimsonTider
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:04pmReally?! Seriously?! They think that will help.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:08pmNo need for he big bucks now. The got Obama into the White House.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:03pmHope they are not offering Couric too much less in her new contract, how will she afford to live. Gee, 15 million for mediocrity how much do they pay for excellence?
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:01pm.
Report Post »Don‘t know why they just don’t ask for their Money Back period, forget a cut…….
Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:07pmOh, that was cold! (Loved it!)
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:39pmCapitalism at work! Let the market set the value.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:24pm.
Report Post »I was thinking that whatever they pay her is too much – until I read your comment – which I like even better!
Wartface
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 5:19amMaybe she could get a part in that new Islamic version of the Cosby Show she thought would be so go for an American audience! Nah… They might behead her or stone her for not converting to Islam. Big Al would never hire a woman but then he already has his new Big Cheese from the 28th ranked cable channel. They don’t have that big of an audience to need 2 talking heads. Keith can just do it by himself in Big Al’s basement until they can sell a commercial or two. May Al-Jezzera has a spot for her.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:01pmCouric NEEDS a pay cut! Like down to $0.00.
Report Post »Mr. Vitriol
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:08pmCome on now. She deserves at least two bits.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:07pmWhat??? The “Perky One” isn’t perky any more?
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:56pmThe scene I saw her in while in Egypt she looked terrified. Dont think she will be wanting to have any muslum neighbers any time soon. She may rethink about being in support of the muslums. She looked a little like an old wet hen. Walk into the fire and you may get burned katie. 15,000,000.00 annualy???? Realy???
Report Post »toongoon
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:49pmPoor girl is going to be reduced to having to eat dog food. Oh wait, I think thats what they already feed her.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:02pm@Mr. Vitriol, the old joke went: Get off the table Mabel, the quarter’s for the beer. About Couric,
Report Post »I’d let her go, period. I won’t watch anything that woman is a party to. Try someone new, who isn‘t so ready to condemn the people she’s reporting on or whomever she/he is interviewing. The GOT-CHA
thingie really pizzes me off when they pull that stuff. Hence, I won’t watch anything with couric.
8jrts
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 12:59pmHow about a job cut!!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:06pmThere is always “Current TV”…..
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:09pmMy favorite Katie Couric moment was watching her get schooled by Condoleezza Rice.
BMartin1776
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:10pmExactly.. hint hint take the pay cut or find somewhere else to work Katie! Oh I know why dont you go off with your radical buddies Gore and Olbermann at Current TV or whatever the joke is called then you can spew all the garbage you want night after night.
Lets see how good and important these people think they are, I want more to go over there with Al “The ManBearPig Hunter” Gore.
BTW who put all this value on Kouric in the first place? She never once impressed me, none of them do actually except for Glenn b/c he isnt part of their club. An outsider like Palin, they just hate him as he tells it like it is!
http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:11pmShe’l lucky. When most people don’t produce, they get fired.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
leftiesaredangerous
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:13pmWhy keep her? I was hoping CBS would make some positive changes. Just cutting the pay of an overpaid, bias reporter with a liberal agenda doesn’t seem the wise path to take here.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:26pmCouric beats Palin at what? The number of plastic surgeries she has had and continuously needs.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:26pmThey actually pay her?
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:28pmHillbillySam…….. That is just funny!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:49pmIf this doesn’t drop your jaw, nothing will!
One-half trillion dollars in cuts to Federal Government presented to Senate!
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-dallas/rand-paul-s-500-billion-spending-cut-has-cornered-gop-senior-senators-video
There’s a link to the bill which gives the cuts/ELIMINATIONS to government! I’m all for it!
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:51pmWho could possibly care who the ABC anchor it is? http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:53pmI meant CBS!
Report Post »missionarydad
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:54pmShe still will be way overpaid.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:59pmWatch out Couric, your usefulness is over. This is what they do with people…the evil ones!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:12pmI watched her coverage of Egypt. She looked terrified while walking among the protesters. It wasnt about anything other than her trying to feel more important about who SHE is. I just wanted to see if she was doing any recruiting for her MuslimCosby Show-
Report Post »chazman
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:25pmCouldn‘t have happened to a more ’perky’ little twerp Marxist!
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:51pmDo you think they are trying to send her a message – like, we don’t want you! http://wp.me/pYLB7-AO
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:56pmHate to say it, but Katie lost her “cute and perky” some years back, and since she can’t give a fair and balanced news report or interview, what good is she. I wonder how her girls are going to look in a burka.
Report Post »poetopoet
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 2:57pmEl Barry Soetoro
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 1:14pm
Governor Sarah Palin would never pick a fight with a Special Needs person like Katie.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:09pmHow about another colonscopy? Katie is a liberal loser
Report Post »I never liked her much but after she so rudely interview Sarah Palin–I said thats it.
She is not a journalist just another lemming in the sea of moonbat progressive BS spreaders…
A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:13pmI hope Katie stays.
We need her to take on Palin if she runs.
And also to be beautiful on TV.
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:19pmAgree with 8J, and she and all her progressive buddies need to start their own, where they can admit to being who they are with no pressure. But wait…the reason they shill for the progressives is that they are backed by billions in network money, and they believe they are in a protective bubble!! Hmm, oh well, back to that “pay cut” option.
Report Post »JGP
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:34pm$15,000,000 to read a friggin tele-promter! Minimum wage should cover it.
Report Post »dantom
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:50pmAme I agree.
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 3:50pmShe could always go to work for the Huffo post or a brothel in Harlem!
Report Post »hologram5
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 4:32pmShe could always go the way of Olberdork and head on over to Gore TV…
Report Post »Shoot-To-Kill
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 5:57pmCouric is a unique Liberal .While most of them talk out both sides of thier mouth she only talks of one. Kinda like Popeye.
Report Post »gracentruth
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 6:09pmJob cut is very good.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 7:31pmHey Katei, how about going to work at the looney bin MSNBC? You would fit right in with your unbiased approach to every topic especially political ones.
Report Post »getalong
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 8:34pmMaybe she can get a acting gig on Little Mosque On The Prairie. She could be the “infidel” that moves into the neighborhood.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 9:32pmSarah Palin’s fingerprints are all over this. After the liberal media portrayed her as unable to answer simple questions, especially ones on foreign policy, Palin has been determined to exact revenge. Palin is connected to Roger Ailes and Murdoch’s media empire through their lucrative, secret relationship. With these media relationships and her connections with newly elected legislators, the strings were pulled, the puppets danced and Kati Couric is out. Way to go Sarah and take that Couric.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:15pmIf they reduce her pay by 99% she will still be overpaid! I quit watching CBS news because of her success. The good part of all this was that I discovered FOX!
Report Post »SavvyCowboy
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 10:45pmShe could audition for “Little Mosque on the Prairie” and have the guest star role of the infidel woman who gets stoned (not pot either) for blasphemy. I’ll bring the rocks.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on February 9, 2011 at 11:24pmJPG we pay Obama even more than that to read a telepromter. Got to remember he is living like a king on our dime. He spent that much campaigning after he won the election. Evidently he did not get the memo that the election was over.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:22amThis is just the way to get rid of her without having to fire her. … She can go work for ALGORE with Olbermann.
Report Post »ottodiedacktick
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 1:18amFROM THE DESK OF KATIE COURIC:
I don’t understand this stupid capitalist system. That ex-communist from Brazil was right about capitalism. In what universe is it fair that my salary should be reduced while Mrs. Sarah Palin’s earnings continue to increase. I don’t get it! I am smarter than she is. I read more books than she does and I say the right things about my corporate bosses. I have done everything possible to get people to hate her, but Americans still prefer her over me! There can only be one explanation: Americans who don’t watch me are really stupid! So, there! I said it. I wonder if Meredith Viera needs some brake work done on her car. ;-)
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 12:34pmShe can always go to MSNBC…aren’t like, 27th in the bottom….it can only go up from there….Hey, Rachel Madcow and her can party down.
Report Post »Rikkor88
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:24pmShe can go on Algorezeera for $9 an hour.
Report Post »wildbillsooner74
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:28amNow are they really gonna Katie what she is worth?
Report Post »What Katie thinks she is worth = 1 billion dollars/ year
What Katie is really worth = 1 cent/year if she doesn’t open her mouth!