Katie Couric will be getting a 3 p.m. weekday talk show on big-city ABC stations in September 2012

Katie Couric will have a program of the week 3:00 pm Debate on ABC stations in the city in September 2012 and will join ABC News this summer in a deal announced Monday by Disney / ABC.

Couric, 54, will appear in all programs and platforms, ABC News, the company said, and "special contribution anchor interviews, [and] to participate in special events coverage." Diane Sawyer will remain as anchor of ABC World News lighthouse.

Disney shows the binding Couric, NBC's executive producer, and former director of the former right-hand man Jeff Zucker Couric, which means it would be sold around the country to groups of independent broadcasters and local stations, which could air as they want. However, ABC stations, including 6abc in Philadelphia, serving approximately one quarter of U.S. viewers will be fixed in 15 hours

The agreement is seen partly as a way to fill the void left by these places when Oprah Winfrey, almost universally distributed to 16 hours, wrapped in May Five of the seven major ABC-owned stations, including 6abc, filled the slot with local news and information.

In April, ABC announced the cancellation of the soap opera "One Life to Live and all my children, to be replaced by emissions into the kitchen and health and lifestyle. Disney / ABC has reaffirmed its commitment to these programs and said that "continues to support" a hammock series General Hospital.

talkshow Couric is described as all interviews, heavy on the kind of human interest stories that have been his strong point today, before leaving NBC to anchor the CBS Evening News, for five years, a position he held last month . As can be produced in only 39 weeks a year and broadcast in the past, the show would not be able to tell the news. segments of the function and performance, such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, may also be part of the range of Couric.

The Hollywood Reporter Couric is paying between 5 million and $ 10 million for the two jobs. Can be increased if the talk show is a success - far from guaranteed, despite its reputation - and you can renew your contract for two years with more favorable terms.

Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, and Barbara Walters, the hiring of Couric gives stable star of the first order ABC news talking about women. Couric said: "I am very happy to be back to the network where I started my career as an office assistant in 1979."