Katie Couric

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1,593 appearances 16 recordings 11 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 24 Jun

Katie Couric’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And that sort of happened to me, too.
You know, people wrote about my makeup and my hair and the way I held my hands at the desk and all these other things.
So it was challenging.
You know, I also think I had this mandate.
They wanted me to kind of change up the way the evening news was done.
They wanted it to be sort of less good evening, you know, the voice of God kind of thing.
They wanted it to be more accessible.
But what they didn't realize, i.e.
Les Moonves, who was the head of CBS at the time, was that that audience is very old.
CBS is the most traditional network.
And they didn't really want...
They didn't want to change.
I don't think I think probably just having someone deliver the news wearing lipstick was jarring enough.
But then we were sort of we were I was brought there to kind of change up the format.
So viewers hated it.
Internally, I had a lot of people, naysayers and people trying to sabotage me internally and.
And it made for a really challenging time in my life.
And I tell this funny story.
I think I wrote about it in my book that I was eating dinner with Ellie and Carrie and Lori Beth, our nanny who I love, who was like my wife and really another parent to my girls.
And I started crying at the dinner table because I was under so much pressure, both internally, externally, just everything.
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