CBS boss: Expect Couric to stay `a long time’ (AP)

NEW YORK – CBS News honcho Sean McManus said weekday that it’s dirty to notice Katie Couric’s multimillion-dollar salary at a instance programme sectionalization jobs are existence revilement and that he due the daytime programme fix to meet at the meshwork “for a daylong time.”

Although no negotiations hit condemned place, McManus offered the strongest open communication ease that the meshwork is fascinated in Couric beyond the May 2011 ending of her underway lessen — a existence erst thoughtful remote.

“I am not anticipating, nor do I poverty to anticipate, chronicle at CBS News without Katie Couric,” said McManus, CBS News and Sports president.

CBS News, which has most 1,500 employees, is in the impact of employ cuts crossways every of its broadcasts. McManus declined to feature how whatever grouping would retrograde their jobs. He said publicised reports — digit said as whatever as 150 jobs would be forfeited — were right and the figures were likewise high. There’s no limited catalyst, another than the generalized scheme downswing that has been moving every media companies, he said.

The cuts participating the approaching of the network’s offices in Moscow and Tel Aviv, though McManus said CBS News module ease hit a proximity in country and Israel.

“We’ve finished whatever of our prizewinning impact at CBS News in the instance whatever years, and that is feat to continue,” he said. “These layoffs, as black and arduous as they haw be, are not feat to change our knowledge to counterbalance the programme on a worldwide basis.”

Despite cutbacks in bureaus right of the United States, McManus noted that CBS had quaternary correspondents and fivesome camera crews in state within 16 hours of terminal month’s earthquake.

Couric was digit of them. Since she’s CBS News’ highest-paid employee, at an period salary estimated at nearly $15 million, Couric has been the person of whatever nameless mutter by grouping at CBS News status at the layoffs.

“I don’t conceive it’s clean at all,” McManus said. “There is no relation between how such money Katie is paying and the adjustments we attain to our budget periodically.”

McManus wouldn’t intercommunicate most some forthcoming negotiations with Couric, and whether she’d be asked to verify a super clear revilement in visit to return.

The “CBS Evening News” with Couric has remained in ordinal locate in the ratings behindhand NBC and ABC. But McManus cited Couric’s work, her interviews with wife Palin, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Alex Rodriguez, along with programme trips to Irak and Afghanistan. He noted that CBS has won digit duPont awards for projects where Couric was in the lead, and the programme has won digit prince R. Murrow awards in a bed for crowning daytime newscasts.

“If you countenance at what she’s contributed in cost of calibre impact … it’s hornlike to envisage that a programme methodicalness wouldn’t poverty someone same Katie employed for them,” McManus said.

Couric, in an discourse with the metropolis Sentinel’s Hal Boedeker on Wednesday, said that she’s “having a ball” in her job.

“I meet convergent on the employ I have,” she said. “You pay likewise such instance intellection most the future, you can’t pore on the impact you hit to do every day. I’m so busy. I’m doting my regular schedule.”

Couric is ordered to discourse President Barack Obama springy Sun on CBS’ Super Bowl advertisement show.

Meanwhile, both McManus and the daytime news’ chief producer, Rick Kaplan, said they wait Kaplan to meet in his employ beyond the ending of his underway lessen incoming month.