Word: anchored
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Uptight is hardly a word to apply to Zucker these days. Try upbeat. After three years of soap-opera travails and ratings woes, NBC's morning show has almost miraculously righted itself. Katie Couric, who became co-anchor a year ago, has managed to make people forget the short, unhappy tenure of Deborah Norville. Bryant Gumbel, the show's sometimes testy on-air leader for the past decade, is smiling more. And the audience is filing back into the auditorium. Though Good Morning America retains a narrow lead in the ratings, Today scored a weekly win last month...
Once the Olympics were over, Zucker landed a producing job on Today. His arrival coincided almost precisely with the start of the morning show's much publicized problems. First was the infamous Gumbel memo, in which the anchor made disparaging remarks about some of his colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Then came the departure of longtime co-anchor Jane Pauley and her replacement by Norville, the brittle blond who alienated both viewers and staff members. Today slipped from No. 1 to second in the ratings; morale sank just as fast. "This place went through hell," says Zucker. "We can acknowledge...
...over largely because of Couric. Formerly the show's national correspondent, she filled in as co-anchor when Norville went on maternity leave in February 1991 and was given the job permanently a month later. Couric's unaffected, girl-next-door likability has helped calm down TV's most volatile family circle. Zucker takes care to parcel out praise evenly, defending the often abrasive Gumbel. "Bryant is very opinionated," he says. "That's his greatest strength, and it hurts him too. But you'd be hard- pressed to find a better interviewer on TV." Still, he admits, "Katie has reinvigorated...
Three All-Americans return to anchor this year's squad--Co-Captains Ceci Clark and Sarah Leary and Junior Liz Berkery...
Radio talk-show host Cliff Kincaid twice called Connie Chung, the prominent Asian-American television reporter and anchor, "Connie Chink" while on the air, and he claimed that is "common slang and 'perfectly acceptable language...