CBS and NBC placing bets on Couric question.(Katie Couric of National Broadcasting Company Inc. may join CBS Inc. CBS News)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, December, 2005 by Meyer, Joel

The buzz inside the CBS Broadcast Center is that heavy odds favor Katie Couric's making the former dairy barn her home and leaving her posh Rockefeller Center digs once and for all.

Also, the promotion of veteran 60 Minutes producer Rome Hartman last week--to executive producer of the CBS Evening News--is seen as a temporary assignment. If Couric comes aboard, she'll want to handpick the person who runs the flagship newscast.

Hartman will still have plenty to do if that happens. When Hartman was named to his new post, CBS News President Scan McManus said Hartman would serve as a key advisor--and essentially McManus' No. 2. And a comfort level already exists: Both are Duke grads (class of '77) and rabid Blue Devils fans.

Meanwhile,...

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