They can fight to see who gets to the buffet table first...
Posted on 02/07/2011 6:28:10 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs channel Current TV.
Neither Mr. Olbermann, his representatives, or executives from Current TV would comment on the move, but they did not deny that the channel, which counts former Vice President Al Gore as one of its founders, will become at least one partner in Mr. Olbermann’s future media plans.
One of the people with knowledge of the plans said Mr. Olbermann would have an equity stake in Current TV. The people insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized by their employers to comment in advance of the official announcement.
On Monday a public relations agency hired by Mr. Olbermann scheduled a Tuesday morning conference call for an announcement about his next job. “He and his new partners will make an exciting announcement regarding the next chapter in his remarkable career,” the agency wrote in an e-mail.
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ROTFLOL
The three cable providers in central SC do not carry CurrentTV.
I guess his viewers go from 114 to 7.
Al Gore sold his shares when it was clear that Current TV wasn’t going to be getting ratings.
LOL WOW, like that channel couldnt get any worse, now its gotten worse LOL
They can fight to see who gets to the buffet table first...
I would have thought it hard to find a channel with lower viewership than MSNBC but darned if Keith might just have found one.
Maybe he’ll marry Al Gore. Oh, that’s right, I guess Al’s already married to Tipper. But, wait, they’re estranged.
Oh, well, there must be some explanation for this strange move. The truth will out in due course.
“Top Rated” ??? That is like a Barroom drunk before he gets backhanded.
I would have thought it hard to find a channel with lower viewership than MSNBC but darned if Keith might just have found one.LOL!
So is this a cable channel or do I need to put on my tinfoil cap to pull it in?
Is that a picture of Al Gore, or Joba-the-Hut?
Mopping the floors and emptying the trash over there? Or are they giving him an actual show?
“Oh, well, there must be some explanation for this strange move.”
Maybe Keith Overbite’s mother is giving him till the end of this month to get a job, or she’ll rent out the basement to illegal aliens.
If he does this he will have pulled off the seemingly impossible trick of reducing the size of the miniscule audience he had at MSNBC even further.
Exciting announcement? Remarkable career? WTF?
Don't know what the *Al Gore* channel is (don't want to know), but from the headline I'm LMAO!
That many? I would have guessed three, but since Keith’s parents are now deceased, even that estimate would be a bit high.
Here’s the rest of the story, as the late Paul Harvey would say: Keith can’t get a gig with any outfit larger than “Current TV.” Here’s a short list of the broadcast organizations that have canned Olby over the years: CBS (fired him as their lead sportscaster at KCBS in Los Angeles back in the 80s); ABC (dumped at ESPN and is so reviled that he is the only “SportsCenter” anchor not invited back to the cable channel’s anniversary celebrations); Fox (personally dumped by Rupert Murdoch as host of their baseball coverage in the late 90s).
And the list goes on, he has been fired twice by MSNBC (no mean feat); Hearst Communications (dumped as sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston before moving to LA), and there’s probably one or two more I missed.
As a former colleague observed, “Olbermann doesn’t burn bridges, he napalms them.” I actually thought he’d land at CNN, but he left there (in the early 80s) under a cloud, too.
One more thing: if Olby accepts the equity offer from Current, he’s an absolute moron. AlGore’s TV channel lost money for years, so much (in fact) that the network had to cancel a planned IPO and his biggest investor, Joel Hyatt, was forced out as CEO; however, he’s still the network’s Vice Chairman. There are serious doubts that Current has ever made any money, and for years they resisted using a ratings service, for fears their microscopic audience numbers would actually be exposed.
At this point, I’m sure Al would love to have Olbermann on board...and bring some of that $7 million severance from MSNBC with you, Keith. What’s that old saying about a fool and his money?
Talk about spittle flyin’...
Wait until it merges with OWN.
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