With Katie On The Way, McManus Is Keeping The CBS Win “In Perspective”

By Brian 

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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