On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since we're reading tea leaves here, I don't know what incentive CBS > has for making an insulting offer rather than announcing that they > won't be entering renewal talks with Couric. They might figure she's > worth keeping on at the right price and she might prefer staying at a > much lower salary. > Well, I assume they do think she would be worth keeping at the right price. But I think it is possible that what they consider the right price is so low that nobody (not CBS, and not Katie) seriously thinks it is possible. Rather than just say "we don't want Katie", which would have all kinds of negative PR problems for them, I think they might be tempted to make her an offer she can't accept, and then say "we tried to get her to re-sign but she turned us down". Of course, this assume that the people at CBS score as high on the asshole scale as the people at NBC, which may be unrealistic. >From Katie's point of view, I don't see how staying at Evening News at a much lower salary than Diane Sawyer gets is anything she might prefer. Aside from diva power, an offer of something like $9M would signal (accurately) to Katie that she was not really valued as the Evening News anchor. Why stay to anchor CBS to last place with little hope of improvement and manifest signs that she is not highly valued, when she could probably make twice that taking Oprah's place at a day time talk show? -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
