In a move that hopefully didn’t take a room full of high-priced consultants, ABC has announced the name of Katie Couric’s upcoming talk show: ‘Katie.’
“I think Katie is a unique brand in television,” said executive producer Jeff Zucker in June. “The mere fact that you can just say Katie and know who we are talking about is evidence of that.”
Scott Pelley began his career as a broadcast journalist at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. Since then, his career has taken him all over the world. Pelley is now a national correspondent for the CBS network and he may get the coveted spot as the anchor for the CBS Evening News. Read more on the next page.
You'd be hard-pressed to find somebody in America today who hasn't heard of the Internet. But in 1994, almost no one knew what it was, including Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel.