Katie Couric to Host ABC Daytime Talk Show

By AOL TV Editors Posted Jun 6th 2011 02:20PM

It's official. After weeks of speculation, Katie Couric has officially announced that she will join the ABC family as host of a brand new syndicated talk show as well as with a role at ABC news. Couric's new show reunites her with her former NBC boss Jeff Zucker, who will produce the new series. The untitled show will debut in September 2012 and film in New York.

"I'm very happy to be returning to the network where I began my career as a desk assistant in 1979," Couric said in a statement. "It is tremendously exciting to have the creative freedom to develop my own show with Anne Sweeney, the Disney/ABC TV Group and Jeff, and to contribute to such a vibrant, innovative news division. I can't wait to be part of this incredibly talented, visionary team."

Couric anchored 'CBS Evening News' for five years after leaving NBC, where she had worked since 1989. While her new talk show doesn't debut until next fall, Couric will begin anchoring ABC News specials starting this summer. She'll contribute to ABC News across all platforms and programs.

Couric's new talk show will air on ABC's owned and operated stations at 3PM in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh/Durham and Fresno.

"Katie Couric is one of television's iconic figures and we are thrilled to have forged such an exciting partnership with her," Anne Sweeney, president of Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chair of Disney Media Networks, said in a statement. "We look forward to having Katie join the best News team in the business, and to working with her to create a dynamic and successful talk show franchise."

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Monday 06 June

By Sue

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Yawn. Really, is there anything she can do with a talk show that hasn't already been done to death?

By toffeenutte

No kidding! Waaay too many talk shows on TV!

What is there left to talk about?

By joan

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What you say is so true and in addition to that ABC will regret giving Katie Couric a talk show as she is not good on her own as a host, she is an ensemble entertainer as she was on the Today Show. Alone she is bad. As you say, too many talk shows already.

Tuesday 07 June

By Comrade X

Just what we need, another talk show, with the plastic, perky Couric nontheless. This liberal-leftist shill for the obama administration wouldn`t know what real news is, even if it came up and bit her on her -ss. The perky one is the Jennifer Aniston of news. Go away already.

By joyceworld

she can host all the talk shows she wants...no one will be watching...when people feel you are the cause of them losing something they have loved for years (ABC Soaps)they are not going to help your ratings...go away Katie!

By Kandy

The show won't last long - she has No personality and if I were home during the day, I would rather watch the soaps they are cancelling - or the Waltons.

By Mabel

I guess she can throw slurs at Sarah Palin,that is when i turned away from her."I am a Democrat but that smurkey face sure turned me off.

By ideziner

3PM Eastern time is the General Hospital timeslot. Does this signal that it will be off the air by this time (like All My Children and One Life to Live)?

By angel321973

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my question exactly!! i won't be watching, taping, "dvr"ing, "web"ing or watching replayed episodes at another time. abc really should have tapped into all the ways people watch television shows before they started cancelling programs!

By marilyn

please do not put her on at 3:00pm, she can take the 4:00pm slot and keep Ellen at 9:am I love GH and it is the only soapleft on abc please do not git rid of it we do not need talk shows all day long. we need a breather of enjoyment.

By TONYA

Can't wait....to hear that it failed, and it will. Nobody watches her now, nobody will watch her then.

By sifrmcc

How boring! when hosting alone she is absolutely useless. How many colonoscopies can she possibly have?

By diane G

Does anyone really care what she does? I could never stand her.

By Angel

Diane Sawyer > Katie Couric

By Barb

If all I had to watch was Katie Couric, I could sell my TV. She has always been touted as "great" when she was anything but... She has none of the finese of Jane Pauley, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer.

By mimi

I agree w/ all of the above=nothing to say, nothing to look at

By BIM

UCK !!!!!!!

By Linda Samek

Will not be watching any afternoon shows if the ABC soaps are gone!!

By Tami

LAME! She bores me

By Janet

I'm sure not going to watch - Fron's kill my Soaps for this show - will be boycotting and so will a whole lot of soap lovers.

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