Katie Couric

"I like Mother's Day," says Katie Couric , 56, of that dread day. "But I also like my daughters to be nice to me all year long," she says of Ellie , 21, and Carrie , 17. Couric tells USA Today she's worked hard to keep her girls out of the media. Until now. All three women pose in the latest "Got Milk?" ad, which premieres Friday on Couric's gabfest, Katie . "I'm really proud of them. I think they've turned into exemplary young women. " Couric, who struggled with bulimia in college, says the milk ads stress "healthy eating and healthy body image.

Forget El Nino. The most worrisome blip on NBC's radar screen is a potential hurricane named Katie. NBC News said Tuesday that it is "in the middle of negotiations" with Katie Couric, co-anchor of the "Today" program, about her future with the network. ABC News, meanwhile, confirmed that it had spoken with Couric but added that its discussions were "not ongoing. " At stake - in addition to the services of one of TV's most popular and respected news professionals - is nothing less than NBC's dominance of morning television and the substantial portion of NBC News' $175 million annual profits that "Today" generates.

Katie Couric has officially confirmed that she is indeed leaving the "CBS Evening News. " Couric, 54, told People that she hasn't decided what she's doing next but that she is "looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multidimensional storytelling. " Pop-up books? Scott Pelley ("60 Minutes") is expected to succeed her. "There's a lot to be proud of during Katie Couric's time at evening news," said CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair . "CBS News, like Katie herself, is looking forward to the next chapter.

Katie Couric, coanchor of NBC's Today show, is expecting her second child in early January, she confirmed yesterday. Couric, 38, and husband, lawyer Jay Monahan, 39, have a daughter, Ellie, 4. "A boy would be nice but I love girls, too," said Couric, adding that she'd announce her pregnancy on this morning's show. "As somebody with two sisters, it would be great for Ellie to know the joy of having sisters. But I'm sure that three women would drive Jay right out of his mind. " No girl's name yet, Couric said, but if it's a boy he'll be Jay Monahan 4th - nicknamed Jack.

Katie Couric can't catch a break. Amid reports that last week's "CBS Evening News" had set a new record low in the ratings - averaging just 5.34 million viewers - a podcast of Wednesday's broadcast, distributed by iTunes, included an outtake showing Couric stumbling over an introduction to the night's top story. By early afternoon yesterday, after a call was placed to a CBS spokeswoman, that podcast was unavailable at CBS.com. It wasn't clear if that version had also been flawed, but about halfway through the iTunes version, after a longer pause than usual, Couric is seen (and heard)

Katie Couric's second baby is due within two weeks, and the co-anchor of the Today show figures she'll be due a rest after that. About two months' worth. Couric made her last live appearance yesterday morning and has taped a show for Christmas Day. After that it'll be feet up for a while as Jane Pauley, Maria Shriver and Elizabeth Vargas struggle out of bed in the wee hours to fill her spot. Couric is married to Jay Monahan, a lawyer who doubles as a television legal analyst.

It's easy to write nice things about Katie Couric. She blushes. The other day, for instance, she was standing in her office at NBC's Today show, near a framed newspaper article with a headline saying, "Katie Couric Saves 'Today.' " Couric saw a reporter studying the story. She hastily lifted the clipping from the wall and set it on the floor, facing the wall. Yes, she was blushing, but tickled to have been "caught" with her clips. People have been writing nice things about Couric since she was named a Today co-anchor one year ago tomorrow.

SO MUCH television, so little time: _ With anchor Katie Couric reportedly poised to announce her too-much-talked-about departure from "The CBS Evening News," could we all finally agree that the person reading the news to us isn't nearly as important as the news itself? A 22- minute newscast is all about making day-to-day choices, a truth that's too often been lost in the five years or so of sporadic will-she-or-won't-she discussions involving Couric. The CBS anchor, whose contract's up in June, has, after a bit of a rough start, presided over a pretty good newscast, one I wouldn't expect to be hurt by her departure as long as the people behind the scenes and in the field continue to do their jobs.

Part of the reason CBS's Katie Couric can't catch a break is because she's a she, says new colleague Jeff Greenfield . "Much as I hate to say this, the notion that we're all done with issues of gender is not right," says ex-CNN analyst Greenfield, yesterday named CBS's senior political correspondent. He starts May 1. "It takes a long, long time for several centuries of behavior to completely dissipate," Greenfield says. "I think people are just starting to realize that gender is a ridiculous limitation in terms of everything but sperm-bank donors.

NEW YORK - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o admitted to Katie Couric he answered questions about his "dead," online girlfriend even after he received a call Dec. 6 from a woman posing as the fake person. Te'o also maintained he played no part in the hoax. Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, the all-American said he was convinced the woman he knew as Lennay Kekua died in September. Te'o claims he never met Kekua in person but developed a serious relationship with her through phone calls and electronic messages.

"I like Mother's Day," says Katie Couric , 56, of that dread day. "But I also like my daughters to be nice to me all year long," she says of Ellie , 21, and Carrie , 17. Couric tells USA Today she's worked hard to keep her girls out of the media. Until now. All three women pose in the latest "Got Milk?" ad, which premieres Friday on Couric's gabfest, Katie . "I'm really proud of them. I think they've turned into exemplary young women. " Couric, who struggled with bulimia in college, says the milk ads stress "healthy eating and healthy body image.

The widow of Joe Paterno defended the late Pennsylvania State University football coach on Monday as a moral man who would have acted forcefully if he had known about early child sexual-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky. "If he knew in 2001 what he learned in 2011, yes, he would have done more," Sue Paterno said during an interview with Katie Couric in which she made her first extended public comment on the scandal. She said she was "totally devastated" upon reading the Freeh report - which found that Paterno knew of an incident and police investigation involving Sandusky in 1998, and was told of a second incident in the locker-room showers in 2001.

After the Pennsylvania State University board of trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno in a phone call, his wife of 50 years, Sue, impulsively rang back to let her feelings be known. "After 61 years, he deserved better," she was quoted as telling John Surma, the board vice president. That was in November 2011, not quite 15 months ago. Since then, Sue Paterno has been largely silent about the way her husband's legacy and his final weeks of life were engulfed by the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse scandal.

NEW YORK - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o admitted to Katie Couric he answered questions about his "dead," online girlfriend even after he received a call Dec. 6 from a woman posing as the fake person. Te'o also maintained he played no part in the hoax. Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, the all-American said he was convinced the woman he knew as Lennay Kekua died in September. Te'o claims he never met Kekua in person but developed a serious relationship with her through phone calls and electronic messages.

The Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, a hallmark event in the city for the last 28 years, will not be held in 2013, Pro Cycling Tour organizers announced Sunday. The officials said the event is being reorganized and will return to Philadelphia in 2014. "We are disappointed that we must remove the race from the calendar in 2013, but we feel that we will be able to reorganize with new partners and make this the preeminent event the region deserves in 2014 and beyond," said David Chauner, a former Olympic cyclist who helped establish the event.

Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Brooklyn-born actor Steve Buscemi were guests Monday on Katie Couric's syndicated talk show, but the discussion was all about the devastation from superstorm Sandy. Buscemi, who stars in Atlantic City-set Boardwalk Empire on HBO, gave Couric a tour of the Queens neighborhood of Breezy Point, where more than 100 homes were destroyed by fire after the storm. "Block after block after block is just filled with the beach," Buscemi said. One home had partially collapsed off its pilings, while at another a homeowner said about mounds of ruined furniture out in the street, "That's not even all of it. They took truckloads away yesterday and the day before.

KATIE COURIC says the abrupt dismissal of Ann Curry from the "Today" show made her feel "terrible" for her former colleague. "I felt really bad for Ann. I still don't understand why they didn't give her sort of a proper send-off," Couric told us Tuesday morning at the Four Seasons, where she stopped to promote her new talk show, "Katie," which premieres at 3 p.m. Sept. 10 on ABC. "Ann did some extraordinary work during her time there. It was just not the best chapter in the 'Today' show.

LOS ANGELES - Five years after Katie Couric tried her hand at anchoring "CBS Evening News," the popular news personality is moving back to her comfort zone: daytime TV. Couric and the Walt Disney Co.-owned ABC television network announced a comprehensive deal yesterday that includes a high-profile role for Couric within the ABC News division and, beginning next year, the launch of a syndicated daytime talk show. Couric will produce the talk show along with her former "Today" show executive producer, former NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker.

Katie Couric will be getting a 3 p.m. weekday talk show on big-city ABC stations in September 2012, and she will join ABC News this summer, in a deal announced by Disney/ABC Monday. Couric, 54, will appear on all ABC News programs and platforms, the company said, and will "anchor specials, contribute interviews, [and] participate in special events coverage. " Diane Sawyer will remain as anchor of the flagship ABC World News . Disney will syndicate Couric's talk show, executive-produced by former NBC boss and longtime Couric crony Jeff Zucker, which means it would be sold around the country to station groups and local independent stations, which could air it whenever they want.