The Ticker: Smith, Couric’s Music, Flock…

> Update: 4:09pm: Sean McManus didn’t say Katie Couric‘s CBS Evening News premiere would be #1; the intern misheard. TVNewser regrets the error…

> NPR’s David Folkenflik wonders if James Horner‘s new CBS News theme will make Katie Couric the “king of the world.” Here’s a related Morning Edition piece…

> Right, Tracy Smith‘s first anniversary as Saturday Early Show co-anchor and Early Show national correspondent is coming up tomorrow. CBS notes that the show is up 3 percent in total viewers and 17 percent in the demo compared to last year…

> This Denver Post story about the morning show wars can’t spell Meredith Vieira‘s name right; it’s spelled “Viera” four times…

> Sun Times: “Jeff Flock, who was a correspondent in the Chicago bureau of CNN for 24 years, has joined the Weather Channel as a severe weather correspondent” (via FTV). Update: 6:57pm: “Flock has been the standby weekend correspondent for the CNN Chicago Bureau for the past few weekends…he was never called in though because there was no news,” a tipster says…

> Johnny Dollar has “dramatic footage of Jeff Goldblatt in the midst of a katyusha attack…”