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Gumbel: I Was Embarrassed by Today 'Co-Host' Palin

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:29:00 CDT

Former Today show anchor Bryant Gumbel was "embarrassed" when NBC named Sarah Palin co-host for a day last week. Hosts “used to be judged not just on their popularity, but the extent to which they were capable of interviewing someone or reporting on a situation, or able to have a...

Palin Reads Papers, Scrawls Notes on Hand on Today

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:57:31 CDT

Sarah Palin kicked off her Today stint this morning by reading a newspaper on screen, as co-host Matt Lauer joked, "Oh, man, she's doing her homework!" Lauer had already teased Palin about that issue—a reference to her 2008 interview with Katie Couric in which she couldn't name any newspapers...

Palin, Couric Ready to Rumble

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:25:46 CDT

Katie Couric and Sarah Palin again go mano a mano this morning in a manufactured media war, and Palin's looking to win this round in her debut as co-host of the Today show . With Couric guest-hosting the competition over at Good Morning America, Matt Lauer razzed Palin yesterday by asking...

Sarah Palin Co-Hosting Today Show

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:35:00 CDT

Welcome to the lamestream media, Sarah Palin. She's going to be co-hosting NBC's Today show tomorrow morning, reports Mediabistro . Palin will go head-to-head with arch-nemesis Katie Couric, who's filling in this week on ABC's Good Morning America , and who's responsible for one of the former vice-presidential candidate's most embarrassing campaign...

MTV News Explains 'Internet' in 1995

Tim Karan — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:04:24 CDT

To be fair, it could've just as easily been Better Than Ezra that would go on to change the world. A clip of MTV News from 1995 in which Kurt Loder investigates the influence of the fledgling internet went viral this week, notes the Huffington Post . In the piece, Dave...

Couric to Co-Host The View

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:51:15 CDT

Katie Couric will soon get some practice at hosting her own daytime talk show, thanks to The View . Couric will be a guest co-host on the ABC talk show airing live on Aug. 3, the executive producer said yesterday. Last month, it was announced that ABC and Disney had signed...

Katie Couric's Big Announcement

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:43:07 CDT

ABC has at long last officially announced that it's signed Katie Couric to host an afternoon talk show , beating out a last-minute push from NBC. In a statement , the network said it had a "multi-year, multi-platform" agreement with the former CBS anchor, that will also include appearances on all of...

Katie Couric Will Own Her ABC Show

John Johnson — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:06:47 CDT

Katie Couric will have a syndicated daytime show on ABC sometime around the fall of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reports. The two sides are expected to announce the deal as early as Monday. A source tells the newspaper it will be "Oprah-esque," though the exact format is still under...

Katie Couric Signs Off on CBS

Rob Quinn — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:56:00 CDT

Katie Couric, the first woman to be solo anchor of an evening network news show, has officially signed off on her 5-year stint at CBS. Couric's final CBS Evening News broadcast included an interview with Hillary Clinton and a "5 years in 5 minutes" retrospective of her time as anchor,...