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Keith Olbermann
Olbermann’s New Sports Talkshow Pulls No Punches (Well, Maybe Just a Couple)
Olbermann’s new show looks like it will face the usual ESPN identity crisis
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Olbermann Returning to ESPN, Without the Politics
The outspoken host again proves a burnt bridge can be rebuilt and returns to sports talk. But can you really take the politics out of sports?
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Crystal Persuasion: Keith Olbermann, on Letterman, Likens Self to Expensive Chandelier
It made perfect sense for Keith Olbermann to go on Late Show with David Letterman to post-mortem his departure from Current TV. Two talented broadcasters, two very strong-willed guys, two guys who have a history of, shall we say, friction with their employers. So whatever Letterman thinks of how things went down with Olbermann and his …
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Olbermann Out, Spitzer In at Current TV
Once Keith Olbermann worked for MSNBC. Then he left amid a feud with his bosses. Then he signed up to remake Current TV’s news operation. Then he got embroiled in a feud with his bosses (despite ostensibly being one of them). Now, eight months and change later, late on a Friday afternoon Current announced that Olbermann is leaving the …
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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: Olbermann At Odds With His Network
It seems like barely a year ago, because it was, that Keith Olbermann left MSNBC after a series of feuds with management involving everything from political donations to behind-the-scenes personality clashes. Olbermann quickly …
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MSNBC Leans Forward Into the Post-Olbermann Era, And Chris Matthews Has a Lot to Say
Keith Olbermann, former MSNBC star / bete noire, did not come up explicitly in the questioning at the MSNBC panel today at the TCA press tour. But his mutually negotiated departure earlier this year was a subtext of many of the questions addressed to news chief Phil Griffin and hosts Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris …
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Dead Tree Alert: From Oprah to Olbermann
My column in the dead-tree issue of TIME out today looks at the return of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, not so much from a review perspective but looking at Olbermann as the latest example of a media star leveraging his or her brand. Oprah launched the OWN channel, Glenn Beck is turning his show into an online subscription network, …
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Keith Olbermann's First Night Ratings Are Pretty Good, Probably, We Think
The numbers are in for Keith Olbermann‘s first night on Current. You can’t tell a lot from any new show’s first night ratings—ask Jay or Conan—and there is not much direct precedent for a cable-news star moving shop to an almost-unknown network.
But for one night anyway, I would bet Olbermann and Al Gore are happy. According to the …
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Pardon the Interruption: Keith Olbermann Returns, Swipes at MSNBC
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The first thing you notice about Countdown with Keith Olbermann is its similarity to Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Indeed—considering how tough the NBC organization has been with intellectual property with its former late-night hosts–it’s striking how much of the rhetorical …
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Ken Burns and Keith Olbermann, Together Again at Last
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Keith Olbermann has announced a roster of regular contributors for his new iteration of Countdown on Current TV, premiering June 20. A lot of political attention will go to voices-from-the-left (and monogram buddies) Michael Moore and Markos Moulitsas, but my attention was captured by …
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Current Sets Date for the New/Old Countdown With Keith Olbermann
Current TV, the earnest-but-little-viewed cable channel founded by Al Gore, has announced the new title for its version of Countdown With Keith Olbermann: It will be called Countdown With Keith Olbermann. It launches June 20.
If there’s news in the new/old title, I suppose you could interpret it as a signal of purpose for the new show: …
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Olbermann Gets Company at Current: Docs, Nature, Smoke Jumpers
Today, in a presentation conveniently following Keith Olbermann’s decision to join the network, Current TV announced a slate of new programming for the year 2011. It’s not the new, complementary news-and-views programming that (one assumes) new star and news chief Olbermann will recruit to air along with his primetime show. That will …