Vieira To Come Into View
05 April 2006
Vieira To Come Into View
NBC is close to completing a deal with Meredith Vieira, co-host of ABC's The
View, to replace Katie Couric on Today, the New York Times
reported today (Tuesday), citing a person close to the negotiations. NBC
has reportedly offered Vieira a four-year contract worth at least $10 million a
year. It had reportedly been paying Couric about $16 million a year, making her
the highest-paid television news personality. A possible sticking point is the
fact that Vieira also has two years remaining on her contract to host the
syndicated game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, produced by Disney's
Buena Vista Television. The Times quoted its source as saying that NBC
had not ruled out permitting Vieira to appear on Today and
Millionaire concurrently. Meanwhile, the TVNewser blog today printed
excerpts of an interview that appeared in the Rocky Mountain News in
September 2002 in which Vieira remarked that after the 9/11 attack, she
realized that she no longer wanted to cover hard news. "I had left the set of
The View. But instead of wanting to go to ground zero, every piece of me
wanted to go home to my husband and children. The desire to cover the story
didn't exist," she said. She also added that she had turned down an offer to
co-host CBS's The Early Show, adding, "I'm not that much of an early
morning person, anyway."
05/04/2006
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