By 1992, however, the Evening News had fallen to third place, where it remained until Bob Schieffer, who acted as the interim anchor between Rather and Katie Couric, saw the Evening News rise to # 2 ahead of ABC World News Tonight in the wake of the death of Peter Jennings but remaining behind NBC Nightly News.

In addition to her morning show duties, the Miami transplant had also regularly been filling in as an anchor for CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

In 1989, Couric joined Today as national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991 when Norville had a baby.

Despite the personal flavor of the piece -- with Couric saying how she still remembered receiving her first library card -- it was later determined that a producer had written the commentary instead of Couric, and that she had plagiarized from Zaslow's column.

In a January 25, 2010 interview with Katie Couric of CBS News, he argued that federal legislation that had expanded government-ensured mortgage programs had been a contributing factor to the United States housing bubble and subprime mortgage crisis.

" He went further to say that her interview with Couric was the most pathetic tape he had ever seen.

By April 1991, it was announced that Norville would not return to Today and that Couric had been named the program's co-host.

Later in the month, she had a cameo role on The Daily Show, in which she portrayed CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric in a commercial for a fictional action-adventure show.

Chung left NBC for CBS where she hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung, and on June 1, 1993, she became the second woman ( after Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976 ) to co-anchor a major network's national news broadcast ( the solo national news anchor title in the United States goes to Katie Couric at CBS ).

He and Katie Couric hosted a prime-time newsmagazine, Now, that aired from 1993 – 94 before being folded into the multi-night Dateline NBC program.

Couric hosted or worked on a number of news specials, like Everybody's Business: America's Children in 1995.

In recent years, NBC's coverage has been hosted by Today anchors Matt Lauer, Couric, Meredith Vieira ; Ann Curry ; and this year Savannah Guthrie ; with announcements provided by Don Pardo, followed by Linda Lopez, the telecast's only female announcer, who served during the decade wherein Willard Scott was parade host ; and, since circa 1994, by Joel Godard of Late Night with Conan O ' Brien fame.

On February 26, 2004, WMAQ-TV garnered national attention when Katie Couric, Al Roker, and Lester Holt hosted the Today Show on Cityfront Plaza to debut the station's streetside studio.

* Katie, a syndicated American talk show hosted by Katie Couric which premiered September 10, 2012

Soledad O ' Brien, Matt Lauer, and Katie Couric hosted a special edition of Today to remember Bloom.

Couric, Gibson and Williams made appearances together on all three major network morning shows, first on CBS's Early Show, then on NBC's Today and finally on ABC's Good Morning America.

As pro tennis's house rapper, he's performed on national television numerous times including NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, ESPN at Wimbledon, USA Network, CBS's SuperSet Series Special, and The Tennis Channel.

The book's focus is specifically on ABC's Charles Gibson, CBS's Katie Couric and NBC's Brian Williams.

On September 11, 2001, he was covered in dust and described what he witnessed when the towers collapsed on NBC's Today show with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric.

The program also faced pressure from management to take advantage of CBS News redefining itself more as a hard news organization after the end of the Katie Couric era, asking the program's staff to take advantage of stories presented on 60 Minutes and the CBS Evening News and expand on those stories in the morning time slot rather than following the lead as defined by Today and GMA to the letter.

He sang a tribute to Katie Couric on the Today Show on May 31, 2006, her last day as anchor.

* On May 12, 2003, Leno and Katie Couric swapped places as a publicity stunt, with Leno anchoring The Today Show and Couric guest hosting The Tonight Show.

From 1989 to 1991, Couric was an anchor substitute and filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today, Jane Pauley, and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today, and John Palmer, Norville, and Faith Daniels as anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise.

On May 28, 2008, Couric made a return visit to Today since leaving almost two years to the very day back on May 31, 2006.

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Vieira accepted an offer to succeed Katie Couric as co-anchor of Today on April 6, 2006, the day after Couric announced that she would depart the show to become anchor of the CBS Evening News.

His triumph was featured on Today with Katie Couric and the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. In 1996, he carried the Olympic Torch through Phoenix and was selected for the first annual Distinguished Arizonan Award by the Governors Council.

Norville conducted some high profile interviews on the show — including one with her successor on Today, Katie Couric — and also addressed some controversial topics including the debate revolving around Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Mormon polygamy.

When Pope John Paul II died on Saturday, April 2, 2005, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer anchored the weekend editions of The Today Show.

In February 2009, after previously denying use of performance-enhancing drugs, including during a 2007 interview with Katie Couric on 60 Minutes, Rodriguez admitted to using steroids, saying he used them from 2001 to 2003 when playing for the Texas Rangers due to what he called " an enormous amount of pressure " to perform .< ref name =" ESPNadmission ">

After the departure of Katie Couric and while a new set was readied ( summer of 2006 ), the program was broadcast from a temporary outdoor studio in Rockefeller Plaza, the same set NBC used at the Olympic Games since 2004.

On May 16, 2010, the orchestra was awarded an honorary degree from Case Western Reserve University at the university's graduation ceremony alongside Katie Couric and M. Cherif Bassiouni.

During that period, their co-hosts were Mary Hart, Sandy Duncan, Deborah Norville, and Katie Couric ; from the early 80s until circa 1994, the show was produced and directed by Dick Schneider ; since circa 1994, the telecast has been executive produced by Brad Lachman, produced by Bill Bracken and directed by Gary Halvorson.

* From Russia with Love ( October 16, 2008 ), Tate tackles Republican Candidate Sarah Palin after she answers a question from Katie Couric about her foreign policy experience.

* Reading is Fundamental ( October 16, 2008 ), Tate tackles Republican Candidate Sarah Palin after she gives an elusive answer to a question from Katie Couric about her reading material.

Norville did not return and Couric became permanent co-anchor on April 5, 1991.

Past winners include Walter Cronkite ( 1989 ), Carl T. Rowan ( 1990 ), Helen Thomas ( 1991 ), Tom Brokaw ( 1992 ), Larry King ( 1993 ), Charles Kuralt of CBS ( 1994 ), Albert R. Hunt and Judy Woodruff ( 1995 ), Robert MacNeil ( 1996 ), Cokie Roberts ( 1997 ), Tim Russert and Louis D. Boccardi ( 1998 ), John Seigenthaler ( 1999 ), Jim Lehrer ( 2001 ), Tom Curley ( 2002 ), Don Hewitt of CBS ( 2004 ), Garrison Keillor ( 2005 ), Bob Schieffer of CBS ( 2006 ), John Quinn and Ken Paulson ( 2007 ), Charles Overby ( 2008 ), Katie Couric ( 2009 ), and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN ( 2011 ).

In September 2006, " See It Now " has also become the slogan for a relaunched CBS Evening News with new anchor Katie Couric

* CBS Evening News with Katie Couric ( September 5, 2006 – May 19, 2011 )

Past contributing anchors were Bryant Gumbel, who left NBC in 1997 ; Maria Shriver, who left NBC in 2004 ; and Katie Couric, who left NBC in 2006.

Although Katie Couric is the first woman named as permanent solo anchor of a network evening newscast, Vargas can be considered the first de facto solo woman evening news anchor, given that she anchored many broadcasts alone after Bob Woodruff's injury in Iraq in January 2006.

He made his last CBS Evening News broadcast on August 31, 2006, and was replaced in the anchor chair by Katie Couric.