The CBS Evening News win over ABC “raises uncomfortable questions for CBS about why it hired Katie Couric (for $15 million a year) when the network appears to have found near-instant success with Schieffer, who is 69,” the NY Post says in a story titled “Katie Who? CBS Passes ABC.”
Sean McManus is actually downplaying the ratings win — he calls it “putting it in perspective” — by calling it “just one week” and “a relatively small step.”
“But it gives us some really good momentum going into September,” he says. Couric starts on Sept. 5…
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