NEW YORK--Katie Couric signed as "cbs Evening News" anchor for the last time Thursday, thanking viewers for "coming along with me on this incredible journey."
The first woman chosen to anchor a network evening left on a good note newsletter only interview Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and leading the diffusion with an exclusive investigation of "60 Minutes" doping new charges against cyclist launches Armstrong.
His next destination is likely to be ABC, where she spoke with senior doing a talk show and some work in the division of the press. But it has no announcement on his future plans.
After several years at no. 3 in the ratings behind NBC and ABC evening, the Tiffany network had high hopes in 2006 when he convinced Couric to leave "Today" show to NBC and to assume the role of anchor point. There was an initial explosion of interest, but viewers rejected efforts to change a format of news during the past decades, and the dissemination slipped in the third.
Newsletter of the Couric has won the award and it attracts attention with interviews newsmaker as a conversation 2008 with Sarah Palin, but he could never escape the cellar. The format also proved restrictive for Couric, who said former "Today" colleague Matt Lauer in an interview last month that "it might be interesting to have a little more leeway to show me a little more personality."
For its last news bulletin, she presented "five years in five minutes," with images flashing by of great stories that she had covered and the people she had interviewed - Presidents Bush and Obama, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, actor Clint Eastwood and user of steroids baseball Alex Rodriguez and Palin.
"It was a privilege to sit in this Chair and a real honour to work with many talented people of CBS News Special," said Couric.
Scott Pelley will replace it as regular anchor, from 6 June.
While diffusion offers a retrospective look at the Couric mandate, it also provides a look ahead to some of the changes sought and CBS News management. New President of CBS News Jeff Fager, executive producer of "60 Minutes", spoke of better featured the work of the division of the press, and last newsletter of the Couric led by previewing a report on Armstrong Pelley will be broadcast Sunday.
Couric noted that second tells dissemination, a paralyzed man, which was held after his spinal cord is stimulated by an electric battery, will be discussed more in depth on "the early Show" Friday.
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