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Millions of Viewers Wave Goodbye to Couric (NYP)
AS Katie Couric puts a wrap on her first calendar year as anchor of the last-place CBS Evening News, she's staring at some sobering stats: more than 1.1 million viewers have tuned her out over the last 12 months. TVNewser: Couric's numbers have risen this fall.

Did Anderson Cooper Want To Return For NYE? (TVNewser)
He left for Pakistan Thursday night. And by tonight, Anderson Cooper will be in Times Square for CNN's New Year's Eve special. But would he have preferred to stay in Pakistan and report on the Bhutto assassination?

Mike Huckabee First Tonight Show Guest (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC has confirmed at least one guest for The Tonight Show With Jay Leno when it returns Wednesday night with its first new episode since the writers strike started. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is set to appear in the first original Tonight Show installment since the writers walked out Nov. 5.

Chelsea Clinton Denies Nine-Year-Old Reporter (AP)
Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response. "I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute," Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.

In the DVD War Over High Definition, Most Buyers Are Sitting It Out (NYT)
Neither Blu-ray, developed by Sony, nor HD DVD, from Toshiba, has a clear advantage, either in terms of technology, number of movies or, increasingly, the price of the equipment. According to data from Adams Media Research, 578,000 HD DVD and 370,000 Blu-ray machines will be sold by the end of this year.

Australia Officials Announce Mandatory Internet Filters to Protect Children (Australia Broadcasting Corporation)
Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent Web sites. Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material.