The shattering you hear is Katie Couric breaking the glass ceiling of nightly news!

The glass ceiling of nightly news anchor is about to shatter, as Katie Couric appears set to take the reigns at CBS. It's well past time that a woman be named solo anchor for an evening newscast.

And let's hear it for Meredith Vieira, rumored to be taking over for Katie on "Today." She is an excellent choice.

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CBS Prepares to Land a New Anchor
Katie Couric Set to Leave NBC's 'Today'

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
April 4, 2006

NBC executives expect Katie Couric to leave the "Today" show and accept an offer from CBS to become the first woman to anchor a network evening newscast on her own, with an announcement of her departure likely as early as this week, according to well-placed sources at both networks and others familiar with the negotiations.

The tentative plan is for a two-step process in which Couric first announces her departure from NBC, which would like to give her a warm send-off after a decade in which she helped make "Today" the top-rated morning program. Meredith Vieira, co-host of ABC's "The View" and host of the syndicated "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," has been offered the job of replacing Couric and is seriously considering it, some of these sources say. (full story)