CBS anchor Couric not worried by poor ratings
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"CBS Evening News" anchor  Katie Couric says she tries not to worry about ratings, even  though her third-placed newscast has failed to gain much ground  in the six months since she took the job.
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By Kerry Dougherty, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 7--Millions of Americans did something Tuesday they hadn't done in decades: tuned to the network news.  "CBS Evening News," anyway.   You've got to hand it to Katie Couric's publicists.
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Katie Couric&#39;s one-year  anniversary as anchor of &quot;CBS Evening News&quot; finds her in Iraq  and Syria reporting from the front lines and not answering  questions about how poorly the newscast has been doing in the  ratings since she started.
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Promo controversy has overshadowed the fact that &#39;Monday Night Football&#39; isn&#39;t grabbing the ratings. By Chris Isidore, CNN/Money senior writer.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - Standing in front of a video board displaying a fast-moving rundown of stories ranging from the Taliban to Suri Cruise, Katie Couric began her first night as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" on Tuesday. "Hi, everyone," she said.
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NEW YORK  - CBS News veteran Bob   Schieffer wraps his 15-month run in the "CBS Evening News"   anchor chair on Thursday, paving the way for Katie Couric's   debut Tuesday.
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A month after establishing its own YouTube channel, CBS says its TV ratings have benefited.
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US network CBS is hoping to revive struggling news ratings with the debut of presenter Katie Couric.
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It's too soon to tell whether the  laughs he got from his top-10 list on Monday night will  translate into votes, but John Kerry's appearance on CBS' "Late  Show with David Letterman" made for great ratings.
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Katie Couric and CBS finally got down to business Tuesday night.   Personable, perky business.
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Burdened with a reputation for being   "perky" and "fluffy," Katie Couric debuts as "CBS Evening News"   anchor next week amid network hopes she can stem the tide of   younger viewers fleeing to Internet and cable.
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A woman finally soloed as the pilot of a network nightly newscast and nothing came crashing down.   Katie Couric may not have made a soaring debut, but she's doing what newspapers all over the country are trying to do: engage people and drive them back to watching the news.
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NEW YORK  - "CBS Evening News With   Katie Couric" is getting an important endorsement from   legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite, one of Couric's   predecessors in the anchor chair.
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A month after Katie Couric's heavily promoted debut as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," the viewership
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For the first time since televisionâs late-night shows returned to the air last week, David Letterman was able to nose out Jay Leno in the ratings. It was just for one show, Monday night, and Mr. Lettermanâs lead was not sizable, but Mr. Leno had won the first three nights. Their competition resumed last Wednesday, when most of the late-night hosts came back after supporting the writersâ strike for two months. Mr. Leno is working without his writing staff, which is still on strike against his âTonight Showâ on NBC, while Mr. Letterman, above, was able to return with writers to his CBS show because of a separate deal his production company made with the Writers Guild of America. Mr. Letterman has also been able to book the normal roster of movie-star guests; on Monday night he had Tom Hanks, while Mr. Leno had the upstart Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. In the overnight ratings, measuring the countryâs 65 largest cities, Mr. Letterman had a 4 rating on Monday to Mr. Lenoâs 3.8. (Each point is worth 787,659 households.) But in their showsâ first half-hour, when Mr. Leno is performing a monologue over the opposition of the writersâ guild, he still beat Mr. Letterman, with a 4.5 rating to a 4.3. CBSâs thin victory margin continued on the 12:35 a.m. shows, where Craig Ferguson enjoyed a rare ratings victory over NBCâs Conan OâBrien, with a 1.9 rating to a 1.8 for Mr. OâBrien.
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If some people thought traveling to Iraq and Syria was a ratings stunt for Katie Couric, it didn't work out that way. The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. Last week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987, and probably far earlier.
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By JESSE NOYES  Katie Couric's much-hyped debut anchoring the CBS Evening News on Tuesday delivered some predictably big ratings to the Eye Network.  But Boston CBS-owned station CBS4 (WBZ-TV) didn't feel much of a bump for its struggling local 6 p.m.