MADELEINE BRAND, host: What a question. All right, that's the future of television. Meanwhile the now of television news is not treating CBS and its star anchor, Katie Couric, all that kindly.</s>Ms. KATIE COURIC (News Anchor): I'm Katie Couric. Tonight: Drowning in debt.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: The results of the crucial February ratings period have been released and CBS is back to its third place behind ABC and NBC. Now if you remember Couric, she of the pixyish grin, the approachability that people just loved her on the Today Show-ness. She was supposed to save CBS's flagship news broadcast.</s>CHADWICK: Which is why they're paying her $15 million a year.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: Right. But things have not gone according to plan. In fact, after one year, Couric's ratings are actually worse than the guy she replaced, Bob Schieffer - and he was seen, Alex, as just not nearly pixyish enough.</s>CHADWICK: Exactly. Well now CBS is apparently taking evasive action to try and fix things. The "New York Times" reported this morning that the show's executive producer Rome Hartman is out. He was fired after last night's show. He'll be replaced by Rick Kaplan, a veteran of CNN and MSNBC.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: And Nightline. And so Alex as we've heard from you this week fewer and fewer people are watching these TV news broadcasts.</s>CHADWICK: If Rick Kaplan needs a tip the new guy at CBS can get one here. The best idea in TV. Just check out our website at NPR dot org and listeners you can too.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: There's more ahead on DAY TO DAY from NPR News.
CBS has fired the executive producer of its Evening News broadcast, which has struggled in the ratings with Katie Couric in the anchor's seat.