Katie Couric's Soap-Slaying Talk Show Cleared in 93 Percent of The Country
By Jamey Giddens on January 23, 2012
Make room for Katie, soap fans. The failed CBS Evening News anchor's upcoming talk show—produced by failed NBC exec Jeff Zucker—has been cleared by 93 percent of the country.Talk about falling upward!
The upcoming program, which will likely take the timeslot currently held by ABC Daytime's sole surviving soap opera, General Hospital, has also been sold in 95 out of 100 top markets. Are you excited for Katie? Sound off in the comments!
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14 June 2011
8 hours 32 min
Pardon me all. Gag me with a maggot. That is all...
21 October 2009
1 year 16 weeks
No way will I watch Katie Couric. I watch "General Hospital" period.
ABC just keeps spitting in the fans' eye!
3 July 2008
15 hours 9 min
ABC would just be stupid to kill their last soap for a talk show ... but then again, they canceled "OLTL" for the epic fail, called "The Revolution".
12 February 2010
4 days 10 hours
Katie Couric does NOT need another job! She's bland and overrated. So count me out! Won't get my viewership anymore than "Let's Make A Deal," "The Revulsion" and that other new pointless ABC show, whose name now escapes me!
11 December 2007
6 weeks 3 days
Yawn! What makes this any better than Anderson, Jeremy Kyle, The Chew The Revolution. Same shit new toilet. NEXT!
28 September 2009
2 days 17 hours
I have dvr'd GH for as long as you could dvr shows, and I used VHS before that. I will not dvr any stupid talk show ever. As a woman who works full-time during the day...my days of watching ABC daytime tv are over once GH is gone.
17 April 2011
1 year 16 weeks
ABC/D doesn't give a crap about what the viewers want. If they did we would still have AMC and OLTL in the afternoons! They need to give the rights to the shows back to Agnes Nixon or sell them to someone who is willing to keep them going. Of course in doing that they risk their crap shows going up against them and getting their butts kicked!! There is no ABC/D in my home except GH and when that's gone, so is all of ABC/D!!
30 March 2009
1 day 17 hours
JS3557 makes a good point. I DVR my soap (Days) but by cancelling their ABC soaps they're losing people who aren't normally tuning into their live programming because I doubt anyone would see their favorite soap canceled and decide to DVR the replacement. I wonder if anyone at ABC thought about that? I mean just how much of a live audience is out there and will these reality shows be so compelling people will DVR them and watch them 5 days a week? I doubt it.
3 March 2009
17 hours 29 min
There's that final nail in GH's coffin!
2 September 2011
13 weeks 1 day
It's possible that they might cancel either The Chew or The Revolution and move GH into one of those time slots. I hope that's what happens, even though I don't watch GH, because I don't want to see another soap die.
29 August 2010
8 weeks 4 days
The day Katie's "opportunity" begins, is the day I say buh-bye.
1 January 2009
18 hours 49 min
I will definitely NOT be watching kissass Couric's talk show EVER!!! It is DOA just like ABC's other two new crapfests!!!
19 January 2012
1 year 5 weeks
Why would I want to watch KC? I want my soaps back!!!!
19 January 2012
1 year 16 weeks
I think it would be awful to put this show on at all. Once GH is gone, ABC will officially be off my tv for good. I have already got my family to stop watching it at night because they took OLTL from me, next is the morning news that my husband watches.
15 October 2008
3 weeks 3 days
This probably looks good on paper. A big name personality and a former TV executive behind a sure to be buzz about network talk show. But those ppl are ppl who have failed in those positions I have mentioned. I have nothing against Katie and out of all of the things that have replaced soaps, this is the one I would at least watch.
17 February 2009
22 weeks 2 days
I wouldn't watch her in any time slot on any network. I haven't liked her since EVER. When this latest attempt fails can we please be rid of her for good? Hopefully, GH will still be around.
23 January 2012
39 weeks 4 days
I will not be watching Katie Couric! If GH is taken off, ABC will be taken off totally in my home! I want my soaps back! I will expect her ratings to be less than the Revolution! Come on ABC! Release the rights of our Soaps back To Agnes Nixon or reinstate our Soaps! You must know by now you made a very big mistake cancelling ONE LIFE TO LIVE! I WANT IT BACK AND NOTHING ELSE! I DO NOT CARE FOR MS COURIC AT ALL-WE NEVER HAVE!! SHE STINKS!! MY GOD, IF TY PENNINGTON COULDN'T BRING IN THE RATINGS, KATIE COURIC CERTAINLY WON'T!
27 December 2007
1 day 19 hours
I still don't get the appeal of Katie Couric I've never cared for her but she gets the big bucks...I won't be watching much of ABC daytime its just left a very bad taste in my mouth. I've gone back to reading for great storytelling.
23 January 2012
1 year 16 weeks
YOU CAN NOT PAY ME ALL THE MONEY IN THE U.S. TO EVER WATCH ABC/DISNEY EVER AGAIN!!!! Roy and Walt are rolling in their graves what these morons have done to the "family" channel! It's a sad world that anyone would prefer a "Snookie" or "Kardashian" over talent like anyone who studied at Steller Adler, Performing Arts, Oxford, or even just grew up on TV and can hold their own, like Kristen Alderson, Ilene Kristen, and Susan Lucci. Not to mention Erika Slezak, daughter of the great Walter Slezak. Reality shows, can't hold a candle to Paul Newman and many others. As for news, how many hours of depressing news in the world does anyone really need to watch in one day??? NO MOUSE IN MY HOUSE, HOW ABOUT SOME SUPPORT, JOIN ME IN MY BOYCOTT OF ALL ABC/DISNEY AFFILIATED MERCHANDISE AND SHOWS!!! TO HELL WITH KATIE, AND THE REVOLTING, SCREW THE RIDICULOUS CHEW TOO!!! Once GH is gone, so am I!!!
23 January 2012
43 weeks 2 days
ABC-they became fools,they cancel the best soaps.They want to treat Us with that shit like chew, revolution and now Katie-ABC give me a brake,I'm already tired of your stupidity.
20 March 2011
8 weeks 11 hours
ABC can go to he11 and I hope The Chew, The Revolution and Katie's new show follow suit.
23 January 2012
1 week 5 days
If ABC wants to replace my last program that I actually watch I would be careful if I were them. This is going to be the end of Disney/ABC. They have removed every piece of good acting to another crappy reality show. I never, never watch reality shows and I will never watch anything with either Disney or ABC ever again in my whole life. I don't think my insides can take another loss. You had better find another place for another shit show with her in it.
20 December 2009
1 week 1 day
Just what the world needs....more women sitting around gabbing about absolutely nothing to fill air time.
27 December 2009
1 day 18 hours
I don't get the appeal. She's bland and overrated. why doesn't she take Oprah's old time slot?
4 November 2011
1 year 6 weeks
People seem to ignore that this isn't a network show. It's on ABC affiliates in their Owned & Operated markets, but there are many markets where it will be on the NBC affiliate, or the CBS one, or Fox, CW or an independent station. That should help some of you to realize GH is done no matter who takes the timeslot. ABC is giving that hour to the affiliates, so GH won't be there regardless.
Not that I'm expecting this pointless witch hunt to stop...
5 December 2007
43 weeks 4 days
Adam...I do believe that this is an ABC network show just like The Chew & The Revolution. Katie is under contract with ABC and can't work for another network or syndicate her show.
That being said, count me as one who will NOT be watching. I have never understood the attraction to Katie and I don't expect to change my opinion any time soon/ever.
4 November 2011
1 year 6 weeks
You're incorrect, sallyv. It's produced by ABC's syndication arm, the way Live with Kelly is, but it is syndicated to individual stations, the way Kelly's show is. The View, The Chew and The Revolution ARE ABC shows, but Kelly Ripa's and Katie Couric's could show up on any channel, depending on which city you're watching it.
In addition to the ABC O&Os, Katie Couric's show is being syndicated to stations from other networks including those owned by Allbritton Communications, Belo Corporation, Cox Media Group, Gannett Broadcasting, Granite, Griffin, Hearst Television, LIN Broadcasting, McGraw-Hill, Media General, Meredith, Raycom, Scripps Howard Broadcasting, Sinclair and Young Broadcasting, among others.
Aside from her show, Katie has a deal to do ABC network specials and reports for other ABC News shows, but her daytime show has already been picked up by a number of affiliates from the other networks.
23 January 2012
11 weeks 4 days
I sure hope that someone takes a look at these comments because they are all true. We do not need another talk show!! ABC, is disgusting in how they do their programming and choice of it.
Once GH is gone, so will ABC forever!
2 April 2009
2 weeks 1 day
She's no Oprah, that's for sure. Once GH goes so do I.
24 January 2012
4 days 9 hours
Just another reason to tune out ABC. It's been years since I watched DOOL or Y&R, but I'm going to make the switch now.