Katie Couric

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) – Along with her soon-to-end daytime talk show, fall engagement and recent move from TV to the web as Yahoo’s global anchor, Katie Couric also made […]

The Disney-ABC syndicated talk show hosted by Katie Couric will wrap up production in June 2014.

Her global anchor job at Yahoo will be Couric’s secondary focus as she finishes up the second season of Katie, her syndicated talk show, according to a source. Couric’s company is paid $20 million to produce the show, but the media maven could be looking at a pay cut if ABC decides not to renew it.

Katie Couric may want to brush up on her reporting skills before she takes on her new role as “global anchor” at Yahoo!, according to a number of critics displeased with a report about the HPV vaccine on her syndicated talk show, Katie.

She’s just the latest big name in news to join Yahoo under CEO Marissa Mayer, who personally courted the former co-host of Today and anchor of the CBS Evening News. She arrives right behind former New York Times tech writer David Pogue, New York Times Magazine staffer Matt Bai and editor Megan Liberman. Hours after the news was announced Monday, Couric talked about why she made the leap.

Katie Couric officially is heading online with a Yahoo deal that had been rumored. The Web giant announced this morning the Couric will serve as global anchor beginning in 2014, working with “a growing team of global correspondents who will report on live world events, anchor groundbreaking interviews with major newsmakers and thought leaders, and much more.

Katie Couric is leaving ABC News for a show on Yahoo, ABC News has confirmed. But Disney-ABC is still not saying whether she will be back to host a third season of her talk show. Assuming she will not, broadcasters are already making plans for life without Katie.

Soft ratings, a huge budget and “disdain” for her female audience — Q Scores report only 10% of women view Couric favorably — have the host’s Disney/ABC talk show in jeopardy as a renewal decision nears.

Katie Couric replacing Barbara Walters on The View? Not so fast, according to ABC. The New York Daily News reported that Couric may be the next member of the long-running daytime talk show. But a spokesperson for ABC said, “There is absolutely no truth to this rumor whatsoever, it’s completely erroneous.” And Couric herself tweeted: “It’s totally not true and crazy how complete falsehoods get repeated.”

The ABC News special correspondent and talk show host accepted his proposal over Labor Day weekend.

A source say Katie Couric’s syndicated daytime show will be “gossip-centric” in its second season, since a behind-the-scenes shakeup replaced executive producer Michael Morrison with The Tyra Banks Show executive producer Rachel Miskowiec. “If there is one thing Katie hates more than being called ‘perky,’ it’s being called ‘tabloid,’ ” the source says. “She thinks of herself as a serious journalist, covering stories that make a difference. She’s fighting this.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric is losing sleep over some odd 911 calls. New York City police said Thursday they had been called to Couric’s Manhattan home several times […]

The Notre Dame football star caught up in a dead girlfriend hoax, and his parents, will appear on Couric’s syndicated talk show Thursday. ABC News announced the interview Sunday, but gave no details as to when it will take place and where.

“I’ll be [at Katie] for a few more weeks helping with the transition,” he told reporters today when his appointment to the presidency of CNN was announced. “I’ll be leaving there by the middle of January.”

Less than a month into the new season, Couric’s middling ratings and topics have affiliates grumbling, Lake has a new executive producer, and a CBS exec’s ouster is partly due to Probst’s disappointing start.

Newly minted talk show hosts Steve Harvey, Katie Couric, Jeff Probst and Ricki Lake have now had a month (give or take) to prove themselves in the daytime arena. So how have they fared?

Couric’s new show is a hybrid. While most daytime shows can be pigeonholed to a specific genre — variety (Ellen), medical advice (Dr. Oz), topical chats (The View), relationships, confrontation (Jerry Springer), courtroom, games and soaps — hers combines social issues with celebrities, and serious topics with fluff.

ABC newswoman and TV personality Katie Couric tells reporters she’s excited to be starting from scratch with her new program “that tackles some of the things that you think are important, that you think people want to know more about.” She said she’s asked presidential candidates President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, as well as Sarah Palin, to be guests on Katie.

This latest :30 promo features award-winning journalist, best-selling author and television personality Katie Couric asking questions about the issues on the minds of her viewers and gives them a sense of the kinds of topics that will be featured on her new hour-long syndicated talk show that premieres Sept. 10.

Katie’s Take on Yahoo begins May 1 and will feature health, fitness, parenting and lifestyle information.

Syndication buyers and sellers are projecting ratings and costs for the new syndicated talk shows prior to this summer’s upfront ad market. They say Disney-ABC’s Katie is likely to command a CPM of $25-$28 in its core demographic, women 25-54. Jeff Probst, with the host of Survivor, is expected to be next at about $25, followed by Steve Harvey and Ricki Lake’s new venture at $18-$20.

It’s a one-week role for the former co-host of Today, the main rival to GMA in morning television. Couric will be filling in for Robin Roberts, who has the week off.

At NATPE, she and Jeff Zucker emphasize their desire to do everything that’s needed to promote their new syndicated talk show, including working with stations across the country.

Disney-ABC Domestic Television’s one-hour, live early fringe syndicated talk show Katie has been sold in 95 of the top 100 markets in advance of this fall’s debut.

Oprah is long gone — she taped her last show for broadcast syndication eight months ago — but her presence (or absence) is still being felt throughout broadcasting and will pervade the NATPE conference next week in Miami Beach. She’ll continue to be the measure by which every other talk show evaluates itself and the subject of countless conversations about her impact on broadcasting.

With Katie Couric, Disney-ABC Domestic Television has arguably the biggest name in the plethora of new talk shows set for debuts this fall in the wake of Oprah Winfrey’s departure from syndication. “We are projecting profitability in year one,” says Disney-ABC Domestic Television President Janice Marinelli. Her confidence stems from Couric herself. She credible and “relatable” and she’s made a commitment to doing whatever it takes in production and promotion, she says. “How often do you get a talent of this caliber to enter the syndication marketplace?”

ABC News isn’t giving Katie Couric much time to relax before her syndicated talk show starts later this year. Ben Sherwood, the president of the network’s news division, told reporters Monday that viewers will see a lot of Couric before the September launch of her daytime chat fest.

Syndicators and stations got some answers to the many questions hanging over them for next season lineups. CBS Television Distribution’s Jeff Probst (left) was picked up by the NBC Owned Television Stations. Twentieth Television’s Ricki with Ricki Lake was grabbed by Tribune Broadcasting in New York and seven other markets while Warner Bros.’s Anderson with Anderson Cooper secured key second-season renewals. Still looking for a home is Warner Bros.’s Bethenny Frankel.

Stiff weekly license fees, Couric’s subpar showing on CBS and some other issues have made the new talker from Disney-ABC a challenging sale, say some broadcasters. But deals with Hearst, Cox, Scripps and others put the show in 20 of the top 25 markets and in good shape for a syndication debut next fall. They also boost it way out ahead of other talk shows vying for pickup for next season.

Former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has settled on a name for her upcoming ABC talk show, two people familiar with the decision tell TVNewser. The program will be called simply Katie, when it debuts in fall 2012.

CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager said today that he hopes viewers who tuned out from the CBS Evening News during the Katie Couric years are being lured back by Scott Pelley.

NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric will soon get some practice at hosting her own daytime talk show, thanks to “The View.” Executive producer Bill Geddie said Wednesday that Couric […]