As rumors about Katie Couric leaving the CBS Evening News early next year continue to simmer, the Daily News offers one suggestion from a network (CBS? CNN?) "insider": "Take Katie off the 'Evening News,' let her to do Larry King, and then let [Anderson] Cooper anchor" the CBS Evening News. Of course, the suggestion for Couric to take over Larry King's talk show seems to have come from Couric herself, during a chat she, her......

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal suggested CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric may leave the network "well before her contract expires in 2011" and as soon as early next year. Why would CBS ditch their $15-million/year star? Reasons range from overall belt-tightening and disappointed about the program's poor ratings and Couric's apparent inability to bring in those female viewers. CBS issued a statement--"We are very proud of the 'CBS Evening News,' particularly our political coverage,......

A look at some of this week's noteworthy television: 60 Minutes (Sunday, 7:00 p.m., WCBS 2) Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is interviewed by Katie Couric in the wake of the baseball steroids scandal. Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., HBO) The Ricky Gervais series concludes its run with an 80 minute special episode. Duel (Monday-Friday, 8:00 p.m., WABC 7) No, it isn’t Steven Spielberg’s 1971 feature length film debut made for......

Rudy Giuliani told the American public, via a sit-down with Katie Couric, that the story pointing out expenses for trips to the Hamptons - to see then-mistress Judi Nathan - were billed across a number of obscure city agencies was a "typical political hit job" and a "debate day dirty trick." He even called it a "false story," but Politco, the website that broke the story, pointed out neither Giuilani or his aides "have questioned......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: Fatal jumper on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, a MOS (member of service) bitten by a dog at 48-36 47 Street in Queens, and a car vs. a building at West 27th Street in Manhattan. A-Rod may stick with the Yankees in a last-minute windfall deal that may be worth worth $280 million. Ira Levin, the author of "Rosemary's Baby," "The Boys From Brazil," and "The Stepford Wives" passed away......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A special delivery (as in a birth) on Hillside Avenue in Manhattan, a jumper down on Flatbush in Brooklyn, and a pursuit with injured officers at 106th St & Rockaway Blvd. in Queens. A Gambino crime family associate's son was working the elevator the day of the Deutsche Bank fire and helped save a woman right before the firefighters arrived. What will someone pay for signatures from people like......

Bye Bye Bolaris? It looks like WCBS meteorologist John Bolaris may really be leaving town, as Newsday reported on Tuesday that he sold his home in Wainscott, Long Island for $2.695 million. However, the Newsday piece did say that he was planning to buy a new house "south of Montauk Highway”, however it did not mention how far south, like closer to Philadelphia. Last week you may recall, we speculated when his contract is up......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a DOA/Fall Victim at 1 Hogan Place in Manhattan (that's the Manhattan DA's office), a double stabbing on East 171st St. in the Bronx, and an overturned ambulance at Broadway and Delafield Ave. on Staten Island. Opening day sales for tickets to The Metropolitan Opera set a record this Sunday after increasing 25% year over year, to $2.08 million. Online sales to performances were 50% higher than 2006's opening.......

New Anchor, Same Old Tardiness There must be something about the morning shift at WABC. After just four days on the job as the permanent replacement for Steve Bartelstein, Ken Rosato, overslept and was late for the 5 a.m. edition of Eyewitness News. We think it is pretty safe to assume that he just overslept, since he probably hasn’t adjusted his body clock fully to the new hours, and that he wasn’t spending the night......

New York magazine has a big cover feature on Katie Couric, aka America's Sweetheart...at least, she used to be. The feature by Joe Hagan is at times a Couric confessional, complaint-fest, and call to arms (literally - she apparently "slapped" a news editor on the arm for using the word "sputum") that looks at the much ballyhooed move from the Today show to the storied news ground of CBS where her evening news program is......

Time announced its second Time 100 list of influential people. (For whatever reason, Time doesn't provide a full list with separate links to all the influentials, so here's a list from FishbowlNY.) Based on our reading, the New Yorkers (and we're including some people who live in Westchester, but work in the city) who made the list include 30 Rock's Tina Fey, subway superhero Wesley Autrey, Senator Hillary Clinton, banker Stephen Schwartzman, director Martin Scorsese,......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A crime scene at the East 69th Street and 2nd Avenue Eckerd Pharmacy in Manhattan, a building facade collapse on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, and a hazmat situation at Cornell Medical at York and East 69th The city wants to do repair work to buildings that need it - and charge the landlords - in legislation proposed by the City Council and supported by the Mayor and other housing......

On-air personalities (especially those of the "shock jock" genre) are really raising the bar in crossing the line this month. While there's been some high-profile stupid DJ behavior in the past - Hot 97's Tsunami Song, Opie & Anthony broadcasting a couple having sex at St. Patrick's, DJ Star asking listeners for information where a radio rival's young daughter goes to school so he could ejaculate and pee on her - the last week has......

-- Nothing says love like an illegal wedding at the Metropolitan Museum. -- The Brooke Astor saga is over-- her son agreed to give up guardianship, in exchange for keeping the cash he diverted from the estate. -- 50,000 people sent Katie Couric suggestions on a sign-off line. Our submission: "Suck on that, America!" -- Is Pirro really tough on pedophiles? She let 93% of the ones she caught plead out to probation. --......

Last night, Katie Couric made her CBS Evening News debut. Overall, the newscast was perfectly fine - no banter, a long Lara Logan feature on going in Taliban-run Afghanistatn, an interview (sorta like The Daily Show, just without the humor) with the NY Times' Thomas L. Friedman, a segment from Morgan "30 Days" Spurlock, and what the public has really been waiting for, pictures of baby Suri Cruise (she has a crazy head of hair!).......

- The Village Voice gets a new editor in chief - and he's from DC - A crane crashed into a overpass on the LIE in Queens and there are huge delays - the truck that was carrying the crane dragged the crane into the shoulder - The Long Goodbye: WNBC puts up photographs from this morning's Katie Couric Farewell episode and the Today website has video - What everyone wanted: A 77 page......

The scandal is a week old now - Kaavya Viswanathan is the Harvard sophomore who plagiarized passages of her debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life from two of author Megan McCafferty's books. But boy, what a week it's been, and everyone (for better or worse) is still talking about it. First, The Crimson broke the story about Viswanathan's prolific cribbing from McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings (while......

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Phillyist is all about the Philadelphia Film Festival.  OK, not all about -- they still have time for loitering, underage sex, and random wacky news. LAist would have to send a camera around the world to get shots as bizarre as Katie's big......

NBC will officially announce that Meredith Vieira will be the new Today Show co-anchor, filling Katie Couric's 7AM to somewhere in the 9-10AM area shoes, later this afternoon, though Vieira announced the move during The View this morning. Newsday's Verne Gay says that Meredith Vieira might be the most perfect replacement for Couric ever, which could be good or bad. But the biggest fun is asking people what they think of the move. Should Katie......

Katie Couric will uproot from the early morning crowds of the Today Show at Rockefeller Center to a few blocks away to Black Rock (the CBS headquarters) by the end of May, as she announced she is leaving NBC to be the CBS Evening News anchor. She made the announcement during the Today show, although it's the only thing people have been talking about for a while. At any rate, it's the big news of......

Now that the snow is a slushy, disgusting mess, Gothamist has distance from this morning's troublesome commute (note to self: Wear wading boots and carry snow boots). But Toby at Random Observations has amazing analysis of the local news' weather coverage. Crazy graphics? Check. Maps of snowfall? Check. School closing alerts? Check. Not only did CBS take honors for being in "Weather Orgasm mode," "Dave Price made an appearance making a fool out of himself......

This might be the most alarmist issue of New York magazine ever! The city's weekly takes the time to summarize the insane saga of strange bird Peter Braunstein, the suspected Halloween sexual attacker. There are some choice tidbits about Braunstein's iex-girlfriend and interactions with colleagues, there are also some withering critiques of his style:In this [cutthroat fashion magazine] environment it was normal for people to be working a persona, but no one quite got Braunstein’s—the......

Just in case you had to actually go to work today (shouldn't Halloween be a national holiday?) we've taken the time to screencap the annual Today Show halloween buffonery. Award for best costume definitely goes to Ann Curry, who makes a fairly convincing Audrey Hepburn. Note to Katie Couric: you need bigger boobs to pull off Marilyn Monroe! And we think it's demeaning that Al Roker has to be Robin-- why couldn't he have......

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New York is in a tizzy because it's the day before The Gates in Central Park officially open. Gothamist must say, we love how there's so much excitement about public art. Honestly, there hasn't been this much excitement and anticipation from photobloggers in New York since...the Republican National Convention last summer. Wow, Mayor Bloomberg, you really know how to push New Yorkers' buttons! The finishing touches won't be put on The Gates until tomorrow......

What good are parents if they can't make up stories as to why you had to have a backing track while singing? In the aggressive counterspin in the SNL wake, minister-turned-manager/stage dad Joe Simpson told Ryan Seacrest that the acid reflux made her voice "hoarse" and "Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television. No......

Gothamist is relieved that Movies > The Political 'Fahrenheit' Sets Record at Box Office" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/movies/28BOX.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1088395240-jj1JalxlyVRzXxL6M/VXig">Fahrenheit 9/11 took box office honors this weekend, because, quite frankly, the idea of White Chicks winning the box office derby was illin'. Sure, Fahrenheit may be polemical, more of a personal journey than an objective pros-and-cons examination, but at least it will get people thinking about issues that matter. Of course, the most brilliant thing about the conservative opposition to......

CNN reports that there's a movement from conservative politicians to put Ronald Reagan on some of our cold hard cash, ideally the $10 bill, which only has Alexander Hamilton, who wasn't even a president, or the $20 which has Andrew Jackson. We're glad that the alternate plan of putting Reagan on dimes (which have FDR on them) in case the Reagan bills don't work out was shot down by Mrs. Nancy, but there's apparently interest......

The Queen Mary 2 docks in New York City today, after being delayed by storms yesterday to make its American coming out party. The "\longest, widest and tallest passenger ship" in the world today will be greeted by Mayor Bloomberg and other dignitaries, as well as heightened security from the NYPD. The ship will leave NY on Sunday, after the big Saturday night colorectal cancer fundraiser hosted by Katie Couric. So, for aspiring paparazzi and......

You can see some of Katie Couric's interview with the over-imaginative Jayson Blair on the Today show website, but a more in-depth interview will air tonight on Dateline. Gothamist watched the Today show segment and found the tableau of confusion on Blair's face when he couldn't one of his lies, Couric saying "It was in the book," then Blair getting up to check his book and saying, "Oh, yeah..." the "made us laugh and cry"......