The Ticker: King, McEwen, Couric…

By Brian 

> Larry King was totally out of it last night, an e-mailer says. During his exclusive with Andre Agassi, “King clearly couldn’t remember Agassi’s name and called him Pancho Gonzalez! Andre just smiled…”

> Tuesday on the Early Show: Former co-anchor and weather reporter Mark McEwen will appear live to “discuss the long road back after suffering from a massive stroke, which doctors say left him close to death last November…”

> “Meredith Vieira appeared in Katie Couric‘s First Look segment today on cbsnews.com,” an eagle-eyed e-mailer notes. “There was a monitor (apparently tuned to WABC) in the back of the Fishbowl showing Millionaire…”

> Broadcasting & Cable: “You can count Newton Minow, author of that famous critique Vast Wasteland, among the early fans of the newly-minted anchor Katie Couric…”

> An e-mailer wonders: “Why is only the CBS Evening News using the new graphics set? I happened to be up early enough to catch the CBS Morning News and they’re still using the old graphics set. And what’s the offical CBS News logo these days? Is the old font (redone at cbs news dot com) or is it the new font as shown on the Wikipedia entry for CBS News and used in the intro of videos on the website (sometimes)?…”

> Paul Bedard‘s new blog details all of Greta Van Susteren‘s gadgets…

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