Katie Couric reflected on her groundbreaking run as the anchor of CBS Evening News while talking about her new book, 'Going There.'
Katie Couric said Tuesday that she felt naive for believing when she left TODAY for CBS in 2006 that the country was ready for a solo female anchor on a nightly news show.
Couric, 64, left TODAY after 15 years in 2006 to become the first woman to be the solo anchor of a nightly news broadcast on a major network. She left five years later as CBS Evening News languished in third place in the ratings behind NBC Nightly News and ABC World News. "I’m not sure if the country was ready for a female anchor — maybe they weren’t just ready for me as a female anchor because of their perceptions of me," she said."But I really went there to say a woman can do this job with confidence and competence, and that’s really what motivated my decision.
Barbara Walters made history as the first female co-anchor of the network evening news with Harry Reasoner on ABC Evening News from 1976-78, but no woman had ever been a solo anchor of a nightly broadcast on one of the three major networks."I think I wanted to try something new and have a new challenge," Couric said.
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