Couric Watch: She’s Staying Until May 31

In Tuesday’s Times, Bill Carter writes: “Any such announcement” about Katie Couric‘s move “will not be accompanied by a news conference at CBS, however, several people close to Ms. Couric said. Some reports this week have suggested that CBS was reserving space at its news headquarters for a formal introduction of Ms. Couric. But her associates said they believe that there is no possibility that that will happen this week.

The reason, they explained, is that Ms. Couric will remain at NBC News through May 31, the full duration of her contract, and would not consent to appear at a CBS event, out of deference to her NBC employers.”

(Just for the record, the “reports” the story refers to is this TVNewser post yesterday. I quoted an anonymous tip that said CBS execs had booked studio space. I post anonymous tips to ask other readers for confirmation and/or denial. Don’t treat them as fact unless I say they’re confirmed; they are not “reports.”)