LAST SUMMER, THERE WAS ONE BIG JOB OPEN ON TV – KATIE COURIC’S SPOT ON “TODAY.”

The job eventually went to Meredith Vieira, but media watchers talked about it all summer long. This summer there are at least four major slots to be filled on daytime and prime time TV. Since Ryan Seacrest can’t do everything, so casting agents and executives had better get busy.