Word: cbs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush was followed by Craig Ferguson, the CBS talk show host, who toned down his normally subversive late night material out of respect for the assembled guests. "What does a President do when he retires?" Ferguson said at one typical moment. "You could look for a job with more vacation time." The best moment of his act came when he appeared to go off script and called Cheney "kind of pervy," yielding no noticeable reaction from the vice president who sat onstage...
...white-male preserve of TV anchoring may get yet white-maler. Katie Couric, whose CBS Evening News remains in deep third place, reportedly may leave after the presidential Inauguration or sooner. Should Hillary pull the election out, the first female President could be sworn in just in time to say goodbye to the first solo female anchor...
...CBS may replace Couric with a woman, but most of the successors floated--Anderson Cooper, Scott Pelley, Harry Smith--are white men. (Diane Sawyer is a possibility, but that would mean going the celebrity-morning-show-host route again.) And CBS executives have speculated that viewers were not "ready" for a woman--maybe because network chiefs believe it, maybe because it's easier to blame society than themselves (while casting themselves as brave pioneers...
Katie Couric First solo female anchor of the weekday evening news on CBS and a former co-host of NBC's Today show for 15 years...
...until the University’s plans for the land become more definite. On Saturday, the Boston Globe reported that WBZ-TV President and general manager Ed Piette said that talks between the University and the station had intensified recently, although they were nowhere near reaching an agreement. The CBS-owned station, which lies a short walk away from Harvard’s athletic fields, has been in its current location since 1948. “Harvard has expressed some interest in our property, but we have no deal with the university,” WBZ spokeswoman Ro Dooley Webster...