Katie Couric's Sarah Palin Interviews Have Modest Effect On CBS News Ratings

Hollywood Reporter:

NEW YORK -- Katie Couric's series of buzzworthy interviews with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin have boosted "CBS Evening News" slightly.

Couric scored an exclusive interview last week with Palin while she was at the United Nations General Assembly to meet world leaders in town for the opening sessions. Those interviews -- which included several clips that got a lot of Web traffic -- appeared on "Evening News" on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Neither night's newscast was able to move into first or second place against ABC and NBC, though "Evening News" showed ratings increases on both nights. Wednesday's household rating was up 14% to a 4.1, compared with ABC's 5.6 and NBC's 5.3. Thursday's household rating was up 8%, compared with the 5.4 that ABC and NBC received.

CBS News declined to release internal numbers but said the traffic to CBSNews.com was "substantially higher than normal."

Meanwhile, Couric's webcast, which aired following the debate, was the most popular yet. It saw 2,000 questions for Couric and analysts submitted online before and during the webcast

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Comments

[derdoodle]

Sarah palin has stood up well to all the personal attacks that she has received. She has more courage that most of the people who stand back and criticize her. As far as not being able to name a news source. Who would want to admit to reading or watching any of them given how skewed and liberal they have become. And yes, let us just murder an innocent baby because some sick man raped a teenage girl. I am sure it had to be the baby's fault. And to all of you who are homosexual and say that you did not choose to be that way, well I guess you just chose to be ignorant as well.
Let's get Obama in office so we can have socialized medicine and half the country, including all the illegals that he doesn't want to throw out of the country, can be on welfare and take advantage of the system. It's not going to affect his paycheck or his way of life.

[SNJohnson]

This derdoodle is the reason why I decided not to be a republican when I turned 18. i am an independant. I have conservative views as well as some liberal views. I just wanted to let doodlebug or doodlesomething know that in the event of a rape of any sort-how could you expect to govern a woman's body and tell her she has no other option but to give the child up for adoption. Yes, I do believe that a fetus is a human life and they shouldn't be comprimised just because they are an inconvenience to the parties involved. But I have two children and had very difficult pregnancies that could have killed myself and most importantly my children. I couldn't imagine denying a woman the right to govern her own body in those circumstances. Derdoodle really has their head stuck up their a**-I guess you would have to be in a rape victims shoes before you start throwing the law down on them.