As we first reported, Ann gets $10 million a year. re hearing NBC does not want to pay her $20 million for the balance of the contract. (10)
NBC wants to make the switch quickly ... certainly before the Olympics so they can showcase Savannah. re hearing the goal is to make the announcement late this week or early next. (10)
The network could pay her the $20 mil and then prohibit her from working anywhere else for 2 years. s lawyer and NBC are haggling. (6)
NBC wants to pay her $10 mil and give her a foreign correspondent job. (5)
http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/26/ann-curry-today-show-savannah-guthrie/
Hopefully the lawyers will be able to haggle all of this out and come to a resolution quickly, before it gets too ugly! s gonna need SOMEONE in that chair before the Olympics get going this summer! What do U think?? (3)
Are U sad to see Ann go or U excited for Savannah?? (2)
http://perezhilton.com/2012-06-26-savannah-guthrie-to-replace-ann-curry-the-today-show
But beware: A quarter-century ago, Deborah Norville was vaulted to the anchor desk beside Bryant Gumbel, which left viewers thinking she had pushed out the beloved Jane Pauley. the ratings beneficiary. (17)
But this sort of wake-up call and a decisive response to it is rare. in his 16th year as its anchor, can handle legitimate news as well as anyone on TV. he also seems game for any manner of piffle. on NBC sister channel E!. viewers, not enlighten them), and Lauer played along. he said, tipping his hand that he has standards. this is a resume tape waiting to happen." is needed. t going anywhere. Today." Why not? would be a step down for Lauer in 2012, even if he had a mind to engineer it. is a huge, profitable, powerful enterprise, which may have helped Curry think that what she does there automatically has value. (17)
More than once, Tom Brokaw has recalled the morning in 1981 he was called upon to interview twentysomething starlet Charlene Tilton. (and now back again, in its TNT revival), Tilton wanted to talk about a diet she was on. s attention strayed as he wondered, reasonably enough, what any of this had to do with journalism. His conclusion: nothing. NBC Nightly News." (16)
And now she understandably may wonder how she failed. t she done everything asked of her? s day-after-day coverage of bullied bus monitor Karen Klein — on Tuesday, Curry welcomed the Greece, N. Y. , grandmother to Studio 1A. ). Never mind. has stumbled. (16)
http://news.yahoo.com/today-host-ann-curry-takes-hit-counts-tomorrows-200550914.html