Those unexpected changes in the lives of two up-and-coming stars -- when combined with a drop in the program 's ratings and the looming arrival of Katie Couric at CBS in September -- touched off a series of sometimes tense meetings between ABC News executives in New York and those running its parent company , Walt Disney , in Burbank , Calif. .
Katie Couric /people/person/place_lived New York
DT JJ NNS IN DT NNS IN CD JJ NNS : WRB VBN IN DT NN IN DT NN POS NNS CC DT VBG NN IN NNP NNP IN NNP IN NNP : VBD RP DT NN IN RB JJ NNS IN NNP NNP NNS IN NNP NNP CC DT VBG PRP$ NN NN , NNP NNP , IN NNP , NNP .
Katie Couric
PERSON
New York
LOCATION
/people/person/place_lived