Finally, after two years of hosting the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric has managed to increase her ratings.

It's about time!

She's repeatedly placed third nationally in the evening news ratings, always behind ABC and NBC. But, here's something to gloat about.

Reports now show that Couric has beaten NBC's Nightly News in the New York market for at least the past six months.

Even in the last month alone, she's increased her overall viewers by 22%. So what's going on? Is she doing something new and different?

According to Couric, "It's all due to the staff, the correspondents and producer Rick Kaplan. It takes a while for anything to click and for people to get used to me."

She adds about first starting out that "I was naive to think we could try certain things. I didn't realize how white-hot the spotlight would be."

Ya think Katie can make the good ratings stay???

[Image via WENN.]

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Word!!!!

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What goes around comes around!

The pilot of the US Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River was set to go on the Today show with Matt Lauer for his first interview about that history-making day.

However, after some last minute "complications", Katie Couric and her people were able to snag the interview with Pilot Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger away from NBC.

Well, the best part is that Sully has now spoken with ESPN's Rick Reilly - BEFORE Katie! The interview took place rather quickly during the Super Bowl festivies this past weekend. Sully and his crew attended the game on Sunday as guests of the NFL Commissoner.

Couric must be grinding her chipmunk teeth in anger!

So, in his first interview ever since the plane crash, Sully spoke with NBC CBS ESPN and said, "It was very quiet as we worked, my co-pilot and I. We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking - the silence."

When asked how he felt as he started to land the plane, Sully responded, "Calm on the outside, turmoil inside."

Even Sully's wife spoke out. She said they've received so much fan mail they read it together at night before going to bed. Adding, "It allows both of us to express emotion about it all. We both sit there and cry."

And if you still want to watch CBS's 60 Minutes "exclusive", you can catch it this Sunday evening with Sully and his wife chatting about the incident, again.

We're sure NBC is loving this!

[Katie and Matt images via WENN.]

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Oh, snap!

Katie Couric has successfully swiped this year's biggest interview to date from her former Today show colleague, Matt Lauer.

Today's Lauer initially landed an 'exclusive' chat with Chelsey Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully landed that US Airways jet on the Hudson River.

The interview was eventually cancelled because of investigation business.

NBC fully expected Sully to come by and chat with them once he was cleared by investigators, but instead, he's going to sit down with CBS's Katie.

An NBC mouthpiece released this statement about the Sully swiping, "What Captain Sullenberger did in the cockpit on Flight 1549 was heroic and admirable. Unfortunately, people close to him have not acted nearly as admirably over the past few days. They gave us their word, and then broke their commitment. We wish Captain Sullenberger the best."

Poor Matt!

But, congrats, Katie!

We always knew you had dirty drive in you!

[Katie and Matt images via WENN.]

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Former GOP VP-candidate Sexy Sarah sat down with 'conservative' filmmaker John Ziegler this week for his upcoming documentary film, How Obama Got Elected.

Excerpts from the Palin interview were posted on YouTube Wednesday evening.

The gun-toting granny claims the following:

- Caroline Kennedy is getting softer press treatment in her pursuit of the New York Senate seat than she did as the GOP vice presidential nominee because of Kennedy’s social class.

- The press coverage of her and her family was and continues to be 'unfair'.

- Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been “capitalizing on” and “exploiting” her.

You sound a little defensive, Gov!

And, maybe she's a little jealous of Caroline K!

Click here to watch the clip.

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Katie Couric might be back in the game, thanks to a little help from Sexy Sarah! (Remember her?).

Though her anchoring gig on the CBS evening news still find her in third place behind NBC and ABC, her overall viewership was up for the past 4 weeks, with last week's newscast performing better than any preceding it since her move from NBC's Today.

After an initial poor reaction, it seems that people are willing to give Couric another chance.

It's also been suggested that Katie's "monumental" interview with Sarah Palin may have also revived her career. Sarah's obvious lack of preparedness during the interview provided ample fodder for Tina Fey's hilarious impersonation.

They're also saying that bad weather might have also worked in Couric's favor, with more people staying in and watching television.

Couric ain't out of the woods yet, but senior vice president of CBS News, Paul Friedman said, "It is certainly better than the alternative."

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Once more, Katie Couric has Repub Veep nominee Sarah Palin on the CBS Evening News last night, Wednesday.

This time, the Governor from Alasks talks abortion, Roe vs. Wade and Supreme Court decisions.

Sexy Sarah brings the LOLs!

Check it out (above).

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While the "Palin Effect" has proved to be ratings gold for SNL, it didn't do much for Katie Couric.

Guess people find Tina Fey's Palin a little more entertaining!

Still, the Couric-Palin interview garnered the newscaster and The CBS Evening News some raise in viewership, as modest as it might have been. And, hopefully audience numbers will continue to rise as the interviews with Sexy Sarah was the first in a series of interviews in which Katie asks each of the candidates the same questions.

Katie, who famously left The Today Show and a hefty raise to switch to another television network altogether, has a questionable future on CBS. Ratings for the news program haven't been as healthy since Katie joined two years ago.

In fact, Couric's ratings are down now as opposed to this same time last year!

But, Katie has a another interview scheduled with the now famous Alaskan governor, so here's hoping that as the election draws closer ratings will climb!

[Image via WENN.]

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In case you missed it….

Check out (above) Katie Couric's latest interview - from Tuesday night - with Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Thoughts????

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