MSNBC says it's ending contract with Keith Olbermann; last broadcast of 'Countdown'

MSNBC ^ | January 21, 2011

[John W]

MSNBC says it's ending contract with Keith Olbermann; last broadcast of 'Countdown' tonight

[Fresh Wind]

Olbermann is now free to move over to Air Amerika’s new video channel. I wish him the best of luck over there.

[Lessthantolerant]

I hope he is the new lead anchor on the OWN NEws Network. I would love seeing him suck on Oprah’s Toes and serve as her buttboy.

Maybe Chrissy and Madcow Madow could go over too!

[kevkrom]

It does not look good for the rest. Olbermann had the best ratings.

But he was also a royal pain in the a** to management. And overpaid. I'm not surprised he was the first to go.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Comcast doesn’t take over until next week and they have denied they had anything to do with this.

[hennie pennie]

>>> "FOX will hire him." <<<

Nah, not Fox, but maybe CNN will replace Kathleen Parker with Olbie and it will be just him and Eliot Spitzer, LOL - that would raise ratings, hey?!

[SunkenCiv]

At least Ezra Pound wrote poetry. Thanks John W.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Those would provide more sanity in that time slot than Overbite ever did.

[Lazamataz]

They are somber and crying at Demons Underground.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

Maybe this is why Chrissy did his episode on “just show the birth certificate, already!!”

Chrissy heard the scuttlebutt and was trying to appear objective for once.

I bet that all of MSNBC is politically muted for a week or so...

[RKBA Democrat]

“I bet MSNBC is going to have to go a new direction. Because their people are not getting a lot of viewers.”

I’m sure this has little to do with politics and everything to do with bottom line. This far left network is probably a serious money loser. The new owners aren’t going to subsidize it.

There are “programs” on youtube that have many times the viewers that MSNBC has. And those “programs” cost youtube nothing.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

With Comcast taking over, the house cleaning begins! Who is this gal that is leaving?

[ScottinVA]

Interesting. Watch for him on the news sometime soon... headlining it, not reporting it.

And it won`t end well.

[teeman8r]

judge not...

[teeman8r]

he started his own network, the olberman news outlet... or ono

teeman

[Verbosus]

Gunny Bob!?
Are you back in Denver?

I sure have missed your show(s) and commentary.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

if MSNBC has a sense of humor, they will run 3 Stooges shows for week in his place.

Might be hard to tell the difference...

It's easy to tell the difference. One show features moronic babbling that insults anyone of even moderate intelligence, and the other one has Curly, Larry and Moe.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Comcast says that NBC is still making the decisions.

I don't know whom to believe, and I don't really care.

I just love this quote from the article linked above:

“MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract,” NBC said in a company statement. “The last broadcast of ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

In other news, we'd like to thank the Captain of the Titanic for his excellent navigating skills, Neville Chamberlain for his success in dealing with Adolph Hitler, Lindsay Lohan for her remarkable defeat of the demons of alcohol and prescription drugs, Barack Hussein Obama for his astute stewardship of the economy in these perilous times...

[NonLinear]

I'm guessing PJ will cover this sometime within the next 24 business hours.

Too funny!

[oh8eleven]

They are somber and crying at Demons Underground.
Was just over there - no shortage of prepubescent paranoia and vulgarity.