Posted on 03/21/2008 6:29:14 PM PDT by hole_n_one
NBC Plans Countdown with Keith Olbermann Anniversary Special
NBC will broadcast an anniversary special commemorating five years of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the top-rated program on sister channel MSNBC.
NBC will air the Countdown special March 30 at 7 p.m.
The network hopes to expand the program’s audience by giving broadcast viewers a look at the show.
Countdown last appeared on NBC in a special edition slated before Sunday Night Football last August. That special did not score with viewers, finishing fourth in its timeslot and garnering an audience of only 1.3 million.
Despite saying that he approached the first NBC Countdown as a "one-shot deal," Olbermann said in a conference call last year that he would not rule out another appearance on the parent network in the future. With the fifth-anniversary special scheduled, Olbermann will get a second chance to make an impact with broadcast viewers.
"When we started this five years ago, I told a reporter that our charge was to stay out of the way of the news: 'News is the news. We will not be screwing around with it,'" Olbermann said in announcing the anniversary special. "We held true to that promise -- we just screwed around with everything about its presentation and interpretation. And I'm delighted by the results and honored by the incredible loyalty of those viewers who join me each night."
Beginning March 31, Countdown will feature some of the highlights from the five years of the show, including Olbermann’s first “special comment” about then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the show’s re-enactment of the Larry Craig fiasco.
All seven of 'em.
They’ll be more posts to this thread than viewers to Olbermann’s show.
Remember that PSA that used to run before the news, Parents, it is 11 o'clock, do you know where your kids are.
In this case Question: America, it is 8 o'clock, do you know where your domestic enemies are?
Answer: The Hate-America crowd is in front of their television being spoon hate mongering propaganda in heavy doses, by a very small man whose large ego is only matched in size by his mean-spiritedness.
Maybe he'll blow his blow his brains out on the air...shouldn't make much of a mess.
Don’t you mean MS-KOS?
Will a highlight of show be Jeremiah Wright’s Easter Sermon accusing Bush and other white people crucifying Christ Barack OBAMA.
NBC sucks, their green NFL garbage and giving this clown prime time on their network twice a year
Will they give him a ride back to his sleeping spot on skid row?
If it isn’t following Oprah there is no chance I’ll catch that segway.
Olb-man could sing the star spangled banner on a continuous loop and he’d still be obnoxious to watch.
If Dan Patrick’s not cohosting with KO...I’m not interested.
When I began following the Olbermann/O’Reilly horse race, MSNBC was lucky to get 300,000 against 3.5 million. Last night Olbermann had 1.3 million vs 2.7 million.
Since the primary season heated up the Countdown audience has grown half a million a night, especially since Keith joined the “Obama is Jesus” camp. The Hillary camp now hates Olbermann but it seems the Obama cult watches more television.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how this shakes out after the election.
Another liberal tree falling in the wildernes with no one to hear or care.
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