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 had hosted NBC's Today from 1991 to 2006 ; her Good Morning America stint marked her return to morning news.

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.

On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9: 30 a. m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight.

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.

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 ">

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

As of May 2012, Couric also has a web show for ABC News, entitled Katie's Take, airing weekly on Yahoo.

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

While at NBC, Katie Couric occasionally filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News.

From 1989-1993, Couric also filled in for Maria Shriver on the Sunday Edition of NBC Nightly News and for Garrick Utley on the Saturday Edition of NBC Nightly News.

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.

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.

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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.

During the week of April 1st, 2012, Katie Couric, also a member of ABC News, filled for Robin Roberts on Good Morning America.

* On December 16, 2010, the final episode of Larry King Live aired on CNN, with Ryan Seacrest and Bill Maher acting as co-masters of ceremonies, and surprise appearances by President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and network news anchors Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Brian Williams, among others.

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.

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

However, it was revealed during the show that while the show was being taped McCain was actually doing an interview with Katie Couric for CBS news.

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Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Elinor Tullie ( née Hene ), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D. C.

As news director in Virginia, he hired Katie Couric as an intern one summer.

From their beginnings until around 1995, evening television news broadcasts continued featuring serious news stories right up to the end of the program, as opposed to later broadcasts with such anchors as Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Diane Sawyer.

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.

On the September 26, 2008 edition of The Situation Room, Cafferty criticized Republican Presidential candidate John McCain's Vice Presidential nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin after she did what he referred to as a " disastrous interview " with CBS news anchor Katie Couric when she could not clearly answer Couric's questions about the federal government's intervention into Wall Street.

Personalities such as 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, news anchor Katie Couric, actor Matt Damon, and several athletes at the Athens Olympic Games wore the band.

Among the creatures Bart and Homer find in the pit is journalist and news personality Katie Couric, as well as a pixie resembling Tinkerbell.

He has served as executive producer for some of the biggest names in television news journalism, including Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour.

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 ).

However, Palin also hurt McCain in that after interviews with Katie Couric, there were concerns about her becoming a political liability amid doubts about her fitness to become President should McCain be disabled or die.

Professional television reporters such as Anderson Cooper and Katie Couric seem to shoot some of their stories themselves.

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.

During the month of December, The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric shared its studio / set with The Early Show.

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.

Margaret Cho, Katie Couric.

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 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.

She has twice been recognized as a “ Woman of the Year ” by Glamour magazine – along with other luminaries such as Senator Hillary Clinton, Katie Couric, Barbara Walters, and her sister Nobel Peace Laureates.

Katherine Anne " Katie " Couric ( born January 7, 1957 ) is an American journalist and author.

Her mother was Jewish, but Couric was raised Presbyterian.

Couric attended Arlington Public Schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School and was a cheerleader.

Couric served in several positions at UVA's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily.