Top-rated MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced on the air Friday that he is leaving Countdown with Keith Olbermann immediately.
Olbermann thanked his fans during his sudden and brief farewell: "My gratitude to you in boundless," he said. "This may the only television program where in the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa. You will always be in my heart for that."
Following his announcement, MSNBC sent out the following statement:
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Olbermann thanked his fans during his sudden and brief farewell: "My gratitude to you in boundless," he said. "This may the only television program where in the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa. You will always be in my heart for that."
Following his announcement, MSNBC sent out the following statement:
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- 1/22/2011
- by Natalie Abrams
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Keith Olbermann announced during the telecast of tonight's episode of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" that this would be his last show after an 8-year run on MSNBC. As the show aired, MSNBC put out this statement: "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. 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." MSNBC also announced that "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" would be taking over the 8 p.m. timeslot starting Monday, with Ed Schultz's "The Ed Show" replacing "The Last Word" at...
- 1/22/2011
- by HitFix staff
- Hitfix
After a rather tempestuous year and amid many changes in the cable news biz, it was announced late Friday that Keith Olbermann and MSNBC are parting ways, effective almost immediately. “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract,” reads a statement from the cable news channel. “The last broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann will be this [Friday] evening.”
“MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success,” the statement continues, “and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
How will MSNBC fill the void? According to multiple reports, as of Monday The Last Word with Lawrence O...
“MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success,” the statement continues, “and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”
How will MSNBC fill the void? According to multiple reports, as of Monday The Last Word with Lawrence O...
- 1/22/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," has left the network. The host announced that he was leaving as of immediately on the air Friday night. In announcing his departure, Olbermann, quoting sometimes from the film “Network,” said, "there were many occasions, particularly in the past two and a half years…that were too much for me.” The host then added, without breaking a stride, “but your support and loyalty and if I may use the word insistence ultimately required that I keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless.” MSNBC released...
- 1/22/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
MSNBC announced tonight that anchor Keith Olbermann is leaving the network. “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract,” the network says in a 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.”
The network also announced that, starting Monday, Jan. 24, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell will take over Olbermann’s 8 p.m. Et timeslot. (O’Donnell has filled in for Olbermann in the past.) The Ed Show, hosted by Ed Schultz, will in...
The network also announced that, starting Monday, Jan. 24, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell will take over Olbermann’s 8 p.m. Et timeslot. (O’Donnell has filled in for Olbermann in the past.) The Ed Show, hosted by Ed Schultz, will in...
- 1/22/2011
- by Adam B. Vary
- EW - Inside TV
The statement came without warning. The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell will move to 8 Pm weekdays on MSNBC, and The Rachel Maddow Show remaining at 9 Pm, with The Ed Show starring Ed Schultz moving to 10 Pm. The move is simultaneous with new owner Comcast starting to show its hand over the broadcast network and cable after receiving FCC approval: Statement Regarding Keith Olbermann: MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. 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.
- 1/22/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Er, so long? MSNBC announced without fanfare Friday that tonight will be Keith Olbermann's last Countdown. Well, actually Olbermann announced it in the final moments of his final telecast, but MSNBC then jumped in to explain. Sort of. "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract," the network said in a 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." While a personality leaving a show upon the end of his deal isn't mysterious in and of itself, Olbermann's farewell to his colleagues and viewers didn't sound as if...
- 1/22/2011
- E! Online
NEW YORK -- MSNBC on Monday canceled Tucker Carlson's daily show, replacing it for the time being with a campaign-focused hour anchored by NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory.
Carlson has had a daily program on MSNBC since June 2005 after he moved to the channel at the invitation of then-MSNBC president Rick Kaplan. Tucker never really found its footing in the ratings, either in late primetime or early evening. Carlson also has hosted CNN's Crossfire and PBS' Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. He will remain with the network as senior campaign correspondent after the show goes off the air Friday.
In its place will be Race for the White House, hosted by Gregory, who will remain chief White House correspondent as well as fill-in host on Today. Another hour of political news will be televised at 1 p.m. weekdays, anchored by NBC News' Andrea Mitchell.
The network also gave some tweaks to its primetime lineup, giving Countdown With Keith Olbermann other runs at 10 p.m.
Carlson has had a daily program on MSNBC since June 2005 after he moved to the channel at the invitation of then-MSNBC president Rick Kaplan. Tucker never really found its footing in the ratings, either in late primetime or early evening. Carlson also has hosted CNN's Crossfire and PBS' Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered. He will remain with the network as senior campaign correspondent after the show goes off the air Friday.
In its place will be Race for the White House, hosted by Gregory, who will remain chief White House correspondent as well as fill-in host on Today. Another hour of political news will be televised at 1 p.m. weekdays, anchored by NBC News' Andrea Mitchell.
The network also gave some tweaks to its primetime lineup, giving Countdown With Keith Olbermann other runs at 10 p.m.
- 3/11/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- It's no go for Rosie.
A possible deal for a one-hour talk show hosted by Rosie O'Donnell collapsed late Wednesday, days after the onetime moderator on The View said over the weekend at a Miami book fair that she was talking to MSNBC.
O'Donnell's blog and other sources confirmed that plans for MSNBC to have her host a talk show at 9 p.m. weeknights fell apart following days of negotiations.
"We were close to a deal almost done," O'Donnell wrote on her blog late Wednesday under the name "Ro." Negotiations continued late into Wednesday, but it was clear by evening that there would be no deal and no show.
"My career as a pundit is over b4 it began," O'Donnell wrote.
O'Donnell seemed to blame herself for the collapse, saying that her letting it slip in Miami caused "panic."
A show starring O'Donnell would have given MSNBC a liberal counterpunch to the rest of cable news fare that includes CNN's Larry King Live and Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." The channel, which has gotten some lift from Countdown With Keith Olbermann at 8 p.m., hasn't seen as much success with either Scarborough Country or a talk show hosted by former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams.
A possible deal for a one-hour talk show hosted by Rosie O'Donnell collapsed late Wednesday, days after the onetime moderator on The View said over the weekend at a Miami book fair that she was talking to MSNBC.
O'Donnell's blog and other sources confirmed that plans for MSNBC to have her host a talk show at 9 p.m. weeknights fell apart following days of negotiations.
"We were close to a deal almost done," O'Donnell wrote on her blog late Wednesday under the name "Ro." Negotiations continued late into Wednesday, but it was clear by evening that there would be no deal and no show.
"My career as a pundit is over b4 it began," O'Donnell wrote.
O'Donnell seemed to blame herself for the collapse, saying that her letting it slip in Miami caused "panic."
A show starring O'Donnell would have given MSNBC a liberal counterpunch to the rest of cable news fare that includes CNN's Larry King Live and Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." The channel, which has gotten some lift from Countdown With Keith Olbermann at 8 p.m., hasn't seen as much success with either Scarborough Country or a talk show hosted by former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams.
- 11/8/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- A day after CNN announced that Campbell Brown will join the network in the fall, another high-profile anchor, Paula Zahn, did the expected and said that she is leaving.
The six-year CNN veteran's last day on the network will be Aug. 2. Her 8 p.m. slot, occupied by "Paula Zahn Now", will be filled by a stream of substitutes until Brown's as-yet-unnamed show takes over in November.
Zahn was approaching the end of her contract at year's end and, in the course of discussing the next step with CNN-U.S. president Jon Klein, they mutually decided there wasn't a place for her at CNN.
"After 30 years in the business I've worked every daypart on the dial, and there really wasn't anything here above and beyond the show that I was doing that would have been new to me," Zahn said Tuesday.
Zahn's departure had been long rumored following the failure of her primetime show, "Paula Zahn Now", to gain traction against Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" as well as MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" and CNN Headline News' "Nancy Grace". Although the ratings have improved recently and the show has won awards and critical attention for its coverage of topics like race relations, "Paula Zahn Now" remained mired in third and often fourth place in the ratings at 8 p.m.
The six-year CNN veteran's last day on the network will be Aug. 2. Her 8 p.m. slot, occupied by "Paula Zahn Now", will be filled by a stream of substitutes until Brown's as-yet-unnamed show takes over in November.
Zahn was approaching the end of her contract at year's end and, in the course of discussing the next step with CNN-U.S. president Jon Klein, they mutually decided there wasn't a place for her at CNN.
"After 30 years in the business I've worked every daypart on the dial, and there really wasn't anything here above and beyond the show that I was doing that would have been new to me," Zahn said Tuesday.
Zahn's departure had been long rumored following the failure of her primetime show, "Paula Zahn Now", to gain traction against Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" as well as MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" and CNN Headline News' "Nancy Grace". Although the ratings have improved recently and the show has won awards and critical attention for its coverage of topics like race relations, "Paula Zahn Now" remained mired in third and often fourth place in the ratings at 8 p.m.
- 7/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Keith Olbermann is rapidly becoming one of the busiest men on TV.
The Countdown anchor, recently signed to a multiyear deal to stay with MSNBC, will add another job to his resume in the fall as co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann will join co-host Bob Costas and analysts Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis and Cris Collinsworth in the second year of the Football Night in America that precedes the network's Sunday Night Football telecasts.
Olbermann has anchored Countdown, a big hit for MSNBC, since April 2003. Under the terms of his new agreement, he'll continue that weekday show as well as contribute essays to "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams." He's also co-host for an hour with former ESPN comrade Dan Patrick for ESPN Radio's The Dan Patrick Show.
Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann was in the midst of negotiations when NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker asked Ebersol if he would like Olbermann to become a part of NBC Sports again. (Olbermann had anchored baseball and some pre-Super Bowl coverage in 1997.)
"I said, 'Yeah, ' at the drop of the hat," Ebersol said.
The Countdown anchor, recently signed to a multiyear deal to stay with MSNBC, will add another job to his resume in the fall as co-host of NBC's Football Night in America. NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann will join co-host Bob Costas and analysts Tiki Barber, Jerome Bettis and Cris Collinsworth in the second year of the Football Night in America that precedes the network's Sunday Night Football telecasts.
Olbermann has anchored Countdown, a big hit for MSNBC, since April 2003. Under the terms of his new agreement, he'll continue that weekday show as well as contribute essays to "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams." He's also co-host for an hour with former ESPN comrade Dan Patrick for ESPN Radio's The Dan Patrick Show.
Ebersol said Monday that Olbermann was in the midst of negotiations when NBC Uni CEO Jeff Zucker asked Ebersol if he would like Olbermann to become a part of NBC Sports again. (Olbermann had anchored baseball and some pre-Super Bowl coverage in 1997.)
"I said, 'Yeah, ' at the drop of the hat," Ebersol said.
- 4/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Things are looking up at MSNBC, with the channel registering double-digit gains in viewers and adults 25-54 for October while Fox News Channel led all news networks for the 250th straight week.
Leading the charge was Countdown With Keith Olbermann, which jumped 67% in viewership and 61% in the adults 25-54 demographic compared with October 2005. Countdown averaged 637,000 viewers (including 233,000 in the demo) for the month, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. It's nowhere near The O'Reilly Factor (which led all of cable with 2.1 million viewers) but it beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the demo and narrowly missed tying it in viewership.
"Keith Olbermann is the right person at the right time, and doing it in the right way," MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams said.
MSNBC was up in viewers total day and primetime as well as in the demo in both total day and primetime. Scarborough Country remained behind Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" and CNN's Larry King Live, but was up 13% in the demo. The 7 p.m. edition of Hardball was up 27% in adults 25-54 and up 5% in viewers. MSNBC's Imus in the Morning simulcast gained some ground on American Morning, averaging 324,000 viewers last month compared with 425,000 for American Morning.
MSNBC is in the best competitive position in total day since April 2003 in the opening weeks of the war in Iraq. Abrams said the strength was almost completely across the board -- praising Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews and Don Imus as well as Olbermann -- but he said he was also cautious.
Leading the charge was Countdown With Keith Olbermann, which jumped 67% in viewership and 61% in the adults 25-54 demographic compared with October 2005. Countdown averaged 637,000 viewers (including 233,000 in the demo) for the month, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. It's nowhere near The O'Reilly Factor (which led all of cable with 2.1 million viewers) but it beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the demo and narrowly missed tying it in viewership.
"Keith Olbermann is the right person at the right time, and doing it in the right way," MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams said.
MSNBC was up in viewers total day and primetime as well as in the demo in both total day and primetime. Scarborough Country remained behind Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" and CNN's Larry King Live, but was up 13% in the demo. The 7 p.m. edition of Hardball was up 27% in adults 25-54 and up 5% in viewers. MSNBC's Imus in the Morning simulcast gained some ground on American Morning, averaging 324,000 viewers last month compared with 425,000 for American Morning.
MSNBC is in the best competitive position in total day since April 2003 in the opening weeks of the war in Iraq. Abrams said the strength was almost completely across the board -- praising Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews and Don Imus as well as Olbermann -- but he said he was also cautious.
- 11/1/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- One of ESPN's biggest stars is coming back in a guest-host role on a popular sports radio talk show. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann will team with his former SportsCenter sidekick Dan Patrick on Friday afternoons beginning Aug. 5 on ESPN Radio's The Dan Patrick Show, which is heard on 300 stations nationwide. Olbermann is no stranger to radio. He was a weekend co-host when ESPN Radio debuted in 1992. MSNBC said Olbermann's new gig won't affect his job as host of its 8 p.m. Countdown With Keith Olbermann.
- 6/14/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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