Comments on: Katie Couric Unplugged http://hitsusa.com/blog/447/katie-couric-unplugged/ Site traffic baby! How to get massive website traffic without advertising... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:11:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Ace http://hitsusa.com/blog/447/katie-couric-unplugged/#comment-10821 Ace Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:59:43 +0000 http://hitsusa.com/blog/447/katie-couric-unplugged/#comment-10821 I work at an NBC station, and we always get 30-45 mins of run through and pre-production stuff before the start of the Today Show. I had watched Katie "unplugged" since 1998 before she left for CBS, and this is pretty much her all the time off camera... or at least off-air, she knows the camera is on. The swearing bit is NOT very common - it's kinda an industry deal that you just assume whatever you say COULD go over the air when a camera is on you. But it's not that odd either. While quirky, she is always very friendly and the people around her seem to generally have fun with her. I don't really understand the comments about how hard she was to work with and what a bitch she was. I've seen her in very stressful situations where she has to - and rightfully should - demand things from the people in the studio, and she is still courtious with "please" and "thank you". Her replacement, Maredeth, is very much the same - although even MORE raw! She also has a lot of fun on set, and even lets some of that carry over to on-air. I think it's nice that they let their gaurd down a little like this... they are almost human, you know! -Ace I work at an NBC station, and we always get 30-45 mins of run through and pre-production stuff before the start of the Today Show. I had watched Katie “unplugged” since 1998 before she left for CBS, and this is pretty much her all the time off camera… or at least off-air, she knows the camera is on. The swearing bit is NOT very common – it’s kinda an industry deal that you just assume whatever you say COULD go over the air when a camera is on you. But it’s not that odd either.

While quirky, she is always very friendly and the people around her seem to generally have fun with her. I don’t really understand the comments about how hard she was to work with and what a bitch she was. I’ve seen her in very stressful situations where she has to – and rightfully should – demand things from the people in the studio, and she is still courtious with “please” and “thank you”.

Her replacement, Maredeth, is very much the same – although even MORE raw! She also has a lot of fun on set, and even lets some of that carry over to on-air.

I think it’s nice that they let their gaurd down a little like this… they are almost human, you know!

-Ace

]]> By: betty http://hitsusa.com/blog/447/katie-couric-unplugged/#comment-10789 betty Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:28:02 +0000 http://hitsusa.com/blog/447/katie-couric-unplugged/#comment-10789 Gawd! Katie cusses up a storm about 3 minutes in... She says "shit" about five times there: "I'm always like Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..." "Oh shit I have seven seconds!" Gawd! Katie cusses up a storm about 3 minutes in…

She says “shit” about five times there:

“I’m always like Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit…”

“Oh shit I have seven seconds!”

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