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17 January 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

CBS is in talks with NBC Today show co-host Katie Couric to replace Dan Rather as anchor of The CBS Evening News, according to Time magazine, which cited a CBS source. Couric is under contract to NBC until May, 2006. However, if a deal is struck, "an old hand like Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer or Early Show host Harry Smith" could fill in between the time that Dan Rather leaves the nightly newscast in March until the time Couric takes over, Time observed. News of the Couric-CBS talks was greeted warmly by PBS president Pat Mitchell, who has known Couric since she started out as a CNN field producer in 1980. "I'm a huge admirer," Mitchell told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "She moves easily between serious, issues-oriented interviews and lighter things. ... This would give her a chance to exercise that more serious, journalistic focus." NBC spokesperson Allison Gollust told today's (Monday) New York Post that Couric's camp had declined to address the Time report and pointed out that "Katie's name is one of many that have been circulated for that job."

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