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Katie Couric's CBS debut is big news stateside
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Tuesday, 05, Sep 2006 09:43
The British might be unlikely to raise an eyebrow if a leggy blonde newsreader made a career move onto a new channel, but in the US it's a very different matter indeed.
Katie Couric, who until recently had been relaying current affairs to audiences of the NBC show Today, makes her debut this evening as the anchorwoman of rival network CBS' CBS Evening News programme - and it's big news stateside.
In fact the 49-year-old journalist has spent the last 15 years blurring the line between entertainment and news thanks to her own unique style and short, short skirts.
Her switch from NBC to CBS has prompted major upheavals to the CBS show, which has even drafted in Titanic-scoring Hollywood composer James Horner to write its new theme.
A host of celebrities and politicians have been queuing up to feature on her new show, such is Couric's amazing ratings-pulling power. Her future guests are rumoured to include right-wing media star Rush Limbaugh, Walter Cronkite and even Presidents Clinton and Bush, entertainment website Wizbang reports.
There is, of course, a slightly more serious point behind all the hysteria. Couric's appointment makes her the first standalone female to have fronted a major news show in the history of US TV.