In 2007, ten years after Olbermann's departure, in an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, he said, "If you burn a bridge, you can possibly build a new bridge, but if there's no river any more, that's a lot of trouble." News Television 5 days ago. Olbermann became frustrated as his show was consumed by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. [22] he later co-authored a book with Patrick called The Big Show about their experiences working at SportsCenter; he also said that the short-lived ABC dramedy Sports Night was based on his time on SportsCenter with Patrick, ABC having been co-owned with ESPN since 1985 (ESPN now produces all sports coverage on ABC, which is branded ESPN on ABC). The two parties sued each other over Olbermann's firing. [92], On February 8, 2011, it was announced that Olbermann had become the chief news officer for the public affairs channel Current TV and would begin hosting a one-hour prime time program on the network at 8 PM Eastern – the same time slot that Countdown had been on MSNBC. Countdown with Keith Olbermann is an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program hosted by Keith Olbermann that aired on MSNBC from 2003–2011 and Current TV from 2011–2012. [89], On January 21, 2011, Olbermann announced his departure from MSNBC and that the episode would be the final episode of Countdown. [137] In March 2009, Olbermann began a baseball-related blog entitled Baseball Nerd. Nothing more will be disclosed regarding the settlement. On October 13, 2004, Olbermann launched Bloggermann, his Countdown blog, hosted on MSNBC.com. Point taken. [117], Before the 2010 Massachusetts special election, Olbermann called Republican candidate Scott Brown "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, Tea Bagging supporter of violence against women, and against politicians with whom he disagrees". From 2011 to March 30, 2012, he was the chief news officer of the Current TV network and the host of a Current TV program also called Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In a technique similar to that of former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in connection to the Iran Hostage Crisis,[65] for the last six years of the program, Olbermann closed every show by announcing the number of days passed since President George W. Bush had declared the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq under a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" (May 1, 2003). Patrick often introduced Olbermann with the tagline "saving the democracy", a nod to his work on Countdown. Keith Olbermann Calls for Arrest of President Trump. [32] The news-driven program, with substantial discussion, relied on Olbermann to carry the 8:00–9:00 PM hour. Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He doesn’t want to make that same mistake again. Because suspicions are so strong that they did, fans will be ready to jump on anything that looks like proof. [64] Olbermann used the open format of the blog to expand on facts or ideas alluded to in the broadcast, to offer personal musings and reactions. Keith Olbermann fired reports still hang over MSNBC. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Jon Stewart criticized Olbermann about this attack on his show, The Daily Show, by noting that it was "the harshest description of anyone I've ever heard uttered on MSNBC". However, in February 2007, Olbermann launched a new blog, The News Hole. After beginning Countdown's "Worst Person in the World" segment in July 2005, Olbermann repeatedly awarded Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel, the dubious honor. In 2007, Olbermann commented on how great one of his substitute host was. [21] At college Olbermann served as sports director for WVBR, a student-run commercial radio station in Ithaca. In his final diatribe against Donald Trump on Twitter before the election, the former MSNBC host tweeted out that the president is a “whiny little Kunta Kinte.” If … He replaced Matt Winer, who had been in this role since his departure from ESPN to join the Turner Sports family, and was originally supposed to host the show with TBS' Dennis Eckersley. "[21] In the early-to-mid 1980s he was a sportscaster on the old WNEW 1130-AM radio station in New York City. Olbermann's relaunched version of "Countdown" took a turn for the worse his second week, with ratings dropping considerably. "[121], He has accused the Tea Party movement of being racist due to what he views as a lack of racial diversity at the events, using photos that show overwhelmingly Caucasian crowds attending the rallies. [95] Olbermann was also heavily involved in the development of the rest of the network's news programming. [120] The next night, Olbermann chose to "double down", as The Huffington Post's Danny Shea described it,[121] on his criticism of Brown by adding the word "sexist" to his original description of the Republican candidate. In response, on November 5, MSNBC President Phil Griffin suspended him indefinitely without pay for violating a network policy which required employees to obtain approval from management before making political contributions. This was done in numerically reverse order, counting down with the first story shown being ranked fifth but apparently the most important. trolling or cyber bullying]. In the Twitter exchange, Olbermann stated, "PSU students are pitiful." [123][124] Additionally Olbermann labeled Trump a "terrorist" and called his supporters "a blight that will be with us for generations," further stating that Trump's "only barely-human delight comes from the morons in the crowd. ET time slot previously held by programs hosted by Phil Donahue and, briefly, Lester Holt. [135][a] He contributed the foreword to More Than Merkle (.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}ISBN 0-8032-1056-6), a book requesting amnesty for "Merkle's Boner". Early Life and Career. "[101], His show was replaced by a show hosted by Eliot Spitzer. Olbermann maintained that he had stopped joking about O'Reilly because of O'Reilly's attacks of George Tiller, and soon resumed his criticism of O'Reilly. [110] In January 2007, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz wrote that Olbermann was "position[ing] his program as an increasingly liberal alternative to The O'Reilly Factor. From March 2003 to January 2011 Olbermann hosted the weeknight political commentary program Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. [84] On the August 3, 2009, edition of Countdown, Olbermann asserted that he had made statements to Stelter before the article was published denying that he was a party to such a deal, or that there was such a deal between NBC and Fox News, or that any NBC executive had asked him to change Countdown's content. [105] On November 27, 2017, in episode 147 of The Resistance, Olbermann announced his retirement from political commentary, citing his belief that "this ... presidency of Donald John Trump will end prematurely and end soon, and I am thus also confident that this is the correct moment to end this series of commentaries". Despite managing to anger Keith Olbermann's audience by suspending the Countdown anchor, MSNBC actually reaped the benefits of much higher than normal Friday night rating for Countdown. [38] Olbermann characterized the demotion as "blackmail. In 1984, he briefly worked as a sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston before heading to Los Angeles to work at KTLA and KCBS. Olbermann's own show, Countdown, debuted on MSNBC on March 31, 2003, in the 8 p.m. [3][4][5][6][7] Although he has frequently been described as a "liberal," he has tried to resist being labelled politically, stating, "I'm not a liberal. [9][10] From July 2013 until July 2015 he hosted a late-afternoon show on ESPN2 and TSN2 called Olbermann[11] as well as TBS's Major League Baseball postseason coverage. Olbermann was born January 27, 1959, in New York City, the son of Marie Katherine (née Charbonier),[15] a preschool teacher, and Theodore Olbermann, a commercial architect. Author / sportswriter / radio commentator / TV pundit Keith Olbermann's first book, "The Major League Coaches", was published when he was 14. ESPN said that it was a "business decision to move in another direction". On April 16, 2007, Olbermann was named co-host of Football Night in America, NBC's NFL pre-game show that precedes their Sunday Night NFL game, a position which reunited him in 2008 with his former SportsCenter co-anchor Dan Patrick. [71] Despite this, Countdown was broadcast both before and after each of the presidential and vice-presidential debates, and Olbermann and Matthews joined Gregory on MSNBC's Election Day coverage. Election Day 2020 is sure to bring out all the crazies and getting things started is our resident crazy Keith Olbermann. He's crazy. [17] Olbermann grew up in a Unitarian household[18] in the town of Hastings-on-Hudson[19] in Westchester County, and attended Hackley School[6][7] in nearby Tarrytown. [49][50][51][52] Olbermann apologized on his program upon his return March 2, but noted, "I'm much more sorry about batting practice [i.e. [85][dead link], On October 28, 2010, days before the 2010 U.S. elections, Olbermann donated $2,400 each to three Democratic candidates for Congress: Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway, and Arizona Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. [28][29] He often co-hosted SportsCenter's 11:00 p.m. show with Dan Patrick, the two becoming a popular anchor team. He helped Rachel Maddow to get her own show on the MSNBC network. In a joint statement, Olbermann and Current TV said: "The parties are pleased to announce that a settlement has occurred, and that the terms are confidential. [81][82][83], In an article on "perhaps the fiercest media feud of the decade", The New York Times' Brian Stelter noted that in early June 2009 the "combat" between the two hosts seemed to have abruptly ended as a result of instructions filtered down to Olbermann and O'Reilly from the chief executives of their respective networks. Olbermann revived his association with MSNBC in 2003 briefly as a substitute host on Nachman and as an anchor for the network's coverage of the war in Iraq. Countdown's format, per its name, involved Olbermann ranking the five biggest news stories of the day or sometimes "stories my producers force me to cover", as Olbermann put it. With any luck, MSNBC loyalists will be be enough for the network to maintain its successful trajectory, even with Olbermann on a different channel. But he might have boasted too soon. [43] Olbermann and Patrick referred to this segment as "The Big Show", just as their book was known. "[40][41] In 2004 Olbermann remarked, "Fox Sports was an infant trying to stand [in comparison to ESPN], but on the broadcast side there was no comparison—ESPN was the bush leagues. Keith Olbermann has 16 books on Goodreads with 4616 ratings. For his 2013 sports talk show, see. [107][108][109], Although it began as a traditional newscast, Countdown with Keith Olbermann eventually adopted an opinion-oriented format. The first few stories shown were typically oriented toward government, politics, and world events; the segments ranked numbers two and one were typically of a lighter fare than the preceding segments. [6] Along with Bob Costas, he supports the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation as an honorary board member. [16] He has one younger sister, Jenna, who was born in 1968. [103] As of March 2017[update], it had nearly 170 million views on GQ's YouTube and Facebook. In January 2018, Olbermann returned to ESPN's SportsCenter program, expanding in May to some baseball play-by-play work. [44], Shortly before rejoining ESPN, Olbermann signed a contract with TBS to host the studio show portions of its coverage of the Division Series and National League Championship Series. "[111] Much of the program featured harsh criticism of prominent Republicans and right-leaning figures, including those who worked for or supported the George W. Bush Administration, 2008 Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin,[70][112] and rival news commentator Bill O'Reilly, whom Olbermann has routinely dubbed the "Worst Person in the World". Keith Olbermann quits ESPN so he can ‘serve his country’ by trashing President Trump on YouTube Posted at 5:18 pm on October 7, 2020 by Brett T. Keith Olbermann Unleashes Unhinged Rant Against Trump, Demands Barrett Be 'Removed From Society' By Rick Moran Oct 10, 2020 10:49 AM ET Share Tweet Unfortunately these values are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it." "[53], In July 2015 ESPN announced that it would be Olbermann's last month with the network. He began his career as a play-by-play announcer for WHTR while he was still in high school. [67], Olbermann co-anchored, with Chris Matthews, MSNBC's coverage of the death of fellow NBC News employee Tim Russert on June 13, 2008. [47], Olbermann was suspended by ESPN in 2015 for the week following Penn State University's annual philanthropy THON due to a Twitter exchange he had with Penn State supporters. [98] On May 29, 2011, the FOKNewsChannel.com domain redirected to the Current website promoting the June 20 launch. [45], It was announced on July 17, 2013, that Olbermann would host his own one-hour nightly show on ESPN2. "[21], After Olbermann left Fox Sports in 2001 he provided twice-daily sports commentary on the ABC Radio Network, reviving the "Speaking of Sports" and "Speaking of Everything" segments begun by Howard Cosell.[42]. [131] Olbermann had cited the need to spend time with his father for taking a leave of absence shortly before his father's death, occasionally recording segments to air at the beginning of the shows which Lawrence O'Donnell guest hosted in his absence, giving his views on the state of the American health care system and updating viewers on his father's condition. In 1997, Olbermann left ESPN to host a prime-time show on MSNBC, The Big Show with Keith Olbermann (ESPN objected to the use of the title). Olbermann had been criticized for only having guests that agree with his perspective. "He appeared to lure some — but not most — of MSNBC’s viewers away for an hour," Brian Stelter, of the New York Times, wrote last week. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. Today is National Voter Registration Day! [68] He presented a tribute, along with several fellow journalists, in honor of Russert. His work there earned him 11 Golden Mike Awards[26] and he was named best sportscaster by the California Associated Press three times. [56], In May 2018, Olbermann's role at ESPN expanded to include a return to the role of SportsCenter host and the addition of occasional ESPN Major League Baseball play-by-play.[57]. After graduating from Hackley in 1975, he enrolled at Cornell University at the age of 16. [136] Olbermann wrote the foreword to the 2009 Baseball Prospectus Annual. "[100] He is a presenter of news and sports programs on television and radio as well as a political commentator. [21] Olbermann graduated from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 1979 with a BS in communication. Mission accomplished, Keith. In 1995 Olbermann won a Cable ACE award for Best Sportscaster. Last night he decided to go after Kirsten Powers on Twitter. [34], In 2004, Olbermann was not included in ESPN's guest lineup for its 25th anniversary SportsCenter "Reunion Week", which saw Craig Kilborn and Charley Steiner return to the SportsCenter set. [138], Olbermann lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, in Westchester County, New York. It added that he would be "a force on the Left for some time to come. [48] THON is the world's largest student-run philanthropy, raising over $160 million for pediatric cancer research since 1977. The series, titled The Closer with Keith Olbermann, aired twice weekly on GQ.com. Instead, Eckersley was sent to join Don Orsillo and Buck Martinez to call the Detroit-Oakland series. [12] It was retitled The Resistance after Donald Trump's victory. Olbermann became a devoted fan of baseball at a young age, a love he inherited from his mother, who was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He stated that Bush never should have started the war in the first place, and he accused Bush of dishonesty and war crimes. [102], On September 12, 2016, GQ magazine announced that Olbermann would, as a special correspondent, host a web series covering the 2016 US Presidential Election. Meanwhile, MSNBC's ratings went up considerably in the second quarter, suggesting that the loss of Olbermann may not have been a loss at all. [3] The feud between the anchors originated with Olbermann's extensive coverage of a 2004 sexual harassment suit brought against O'Reilly by former Fox News Channel producer Andrea Mackris during which Olbermann asked Countdown viewers to fund the purchase of lurid audio tapes allegedly held by Mackris. As tempers begin to flare on both sides of the political aisle in advance of next Wednesday’s congressional joint session to count the electoral votes, Keith Olbermann has called for a political war with any member of Congress who supports President Donald Trump by challenging the Electoral College vote that has Joe Biden beating Trump 306 – 232. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was. [90][91] MSNBC issued a statement that it had ended its contract with Olbermann, with no further explanation. The blog featured political commentaries by Olbermann—including viral video versions of Countdown's "Special Comment" and "Worst Person" segments, as well as photographs of his outings at professional baseball games. [70] This apparent conflict of interest had been an issue as early as May 2007, when Giuliani campaign officials complained about his serving in dual roles, as both a host and a commentator. Sorry. [3][79][80] The rivalry continued when in 2006 at Television Critics' Association in California, Olbermann donned a mask of O'Reilly and made a Nazi salute, leading to a letter of protest from the Anti-Defamation League. Outkick.com was first to report this week that ESPN is expected to go through another substantial round of layoffs this fall affecting some of its 4,000 employees at the Bristol, Connecticut, headquarters, and 2,500 others worldwide.

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