Katie Couric: Big Announcement!

May 27, 2008

Matt Lauer announced on Tuesday’s “Today Show” that an alum, Katie Couric, would be appearing on Wednesday’s show to make a big announcement. While Meredith Viera guessed that she would be returning to her morning role, Lauer thinks she’ll look great as a man so it’s anyones guess as to what she’ll say.

Everyone has been wondering what plans she has since it was reported that she will be leaving “CBS News” before her contract expires. (That would be in 2011 by the way.) The nightly program hasn’t done well with the ratings so they probably need to move her to where she can boost ratings.

There’s also a rumor that she is swapping jobs with blue-eyed Anderson Cooper who is on CNN but the “Today Show” would be a strange place for that announcement.

And the last rumor I heard was that the real reason is she will be appearing on a telethon hosted by ABC, CBS and NBC that supports cancer research. (Her husband Jay Monahan died in 1998 from colon cancer.) The telethon would bring together all the nightly news anchors- Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams - and would be on all three networks.

Not that I’m up early enough for the “Today Show” now, but I used to catch some of it back in the day and Katie Couric was always that annoying perky anchor that just made sense to be waking America up. Her being back to the early schedule would make a lot of people happy but I’m sure she’s enjoying sleeping in too much to come back anyways.

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