Was juggernaut Kieth Olbermann fired by MSNBC? Without any notice to his fans, the nighttime anchor announced he was leaving on the last segment of his show last night. Get the full story, with pictures and a video of his last show below!
NBC Universal was acquired by Comcast last week, and the change of power was marked by the exit of Universal chief Jeff Zucker. He is credited with placing Olbermann in the nighttime slot, and turning the once-unprofitable network into the second-place national nighttime political network.
Now, fans are wondering if the same people who caused Zucker to leave may have had Keith Olbermann fired. The anchor had two-years left on his contract with the network. Following the final commercial segment during his show the anchor told his viewers in plain words that this would be his final broadcast.
“There were many occasions, particularly in the last 2 1/2 years, where all that surrounded the show — but never the show itself — was just too much for me,” he said in his exit statement. “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.”
Regardless of who the responsible party is in his departure, it was clear that neither party was particularly emotional about saying goodbye. At least the network gave him more time than ESPN did. The anchor adds a moment of levity by describing what happened when he left the sports network.
“As God as my witness, in the commercial break just before the emotional moment, the producer got into my earpiece and he said, ‘um, can you cut it down to 15 seconds so we get in this tennis result from Stuttgart.’”
What do you think of the star anchor leaving the network? Has MSNBC let go of their most valuable host by having Keith Olbermann fired? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section! And don’t miss the pictures and video below!
Photos: www.wenn.com/HRC, Adriana M. Barraza
January 22nd, 2011 at 5:00 am
Ding-Dong the Olber’s gone!
The Oblermann,
The Olber-scam!
Ding Dong the Oblerman is gone!
January 22nd, 2011 at 5:02 am
Let the church bells ring for three days! Hehehe! He obviously was fired. His show sucked. His ratings sucked. Now that Comcast acquired NBC News, maybe this is the beginning of the end for the Progressive slime balls put in place by Jeffrey Immelt.
January 22nd, 2011 at 6:12 am
Bet Matthews is peeing down his leg right now waiting for the other shoe to drop.
January 22nd, 2011 at 6:36 am
Finally got rid of him, didn’t ya? He should be thankful he was only fired, and not shot in the head like liberal congresspersons get.
January 22nd, 2011 at 7:45 am
Yes Klo-less, it was us. We conservatives convinced the most liberal network to fire their most liberal personality.
Every time I think you’ve said the stupidest thing I ever heard, you keep talking.
Freakin’ loon!!!
January 22nd, 2011 at 8:25 am
I wish all the bloviators would go way. Keith, please take Ed, Bill, Sean, and of course Glenn, lock yourselves in a sound-proof room and yell at each other until the end of time. Just please do it where I don’t have to hear about it every day and stop trying to pass yourselves off as news.
January 22nd, 2011 at 9:42 am
Allow me to add some facts:
1. The killer was a rabid anti-Bush flamer who wore women’s clothes and was deranged. The furthest thing from a TP member.
2. Olbermann improved MSNBC’s ratings and had highly desirable demographics even though his overall ratings were still well below O’Reilly’s.
3. It would be incredibly stupid for Comcast to mandate anything at this point with the Gov looking at their every move.
4. Why would he be fired? What are we about to find out?
January 22nd, 2011 at 10:03 am
I heard it on FOX this morning, saw the RP headline.
And dammit if Andy didnt take the words right out of my mouth.
I was gonna go with “ding dong the wicked b*tch is dead”
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TA…
You cant compare Beck to Olberman.
Beck deals in facts and not venomous selacious cherry picked sound bites.
Only two people watched Olberman for a reason, do the math. Beck kicks Olbermans ratings ass 10 fold.
January 22nd, 2011 at 10:06 am
“and stop trying to pass yourselves off as news.”
Even Keith didnt try to “pass” himself of as “news”.
Nice try, but any fool knows these shows are entertainment, punditry and opinions based on the news.
Beck actually “teaches history”
January 22nd, 2011 at 10:10 am
I guess Keith didnt understand why Air America went down. Amazingly enough, even the left gets tired of hearing that crap.
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Klo. get this thru your thick fkcing skull once and for all.
The attack on Giffords had nothing to do with politics or media
January 22nd, 2011 at 10:26 am
I’ve removed MSN from my desk top, and I see no
reason to watch MSNBC. Keith spoke up when others remained safely silent. He expressed a lot of the frustrations the average American is feeling in these times. Msnbc would have been better off firing Joe, Mr. “Morning Joe.”
It was a thoughtless, man ego thing for MSNBC to do.
January 22nd, 2011 at 10:35 am
Mae Li…
I’m having a hard time understanding this.
If Keith was so great why do you see no reason to watch MSNBC ?
Keith was no more than a viscious rabid left wing hate monger. The American public did not relate to the frustrations you claim he spoke of.
The average American is not that vindictive, spitful, and hateful. Any freaking idiot today can tell you what the average American today id frustrated by. We sure as hell didnt need Olberman reaffirming what we all already know.
I’ve watched the mans show twice in my life and can tell you without a doubt that if I were in his precense I’d of knocked him out of his chair for the outright lies hes spewed.
Good ridance. The whole country will be better off.
January 22nd, 2011 at 12:48 pm
“I’ve watched the mans show twice in my life ”
Yet you comment four times and counting about his departure. At least I’ve sat through your loon Beck a few dozen times before stating that he’s batcrap crazy.
And I repeat, I’m no Olberman fan, I think he’s a bloviator, along with the rest. Fox and it’s mirror MSNBC are the National Enquirers of TV News.
January 22nd, 2011 at 1:25 pm
“Yet you comment four times and counting about his departure.”
Get a life and stop letting my style of posting irk you so much. I explained my reasons for the way I post once already. There was a time when you moonbats were b*tching that my posts were too long. Damned if I do and damned if I dont. Get over it.
“At least I’ve sat through your loon Beck a few dozen times before stating that he’s batcrap crazy.”
Good for you, I guess ?
It only took once for me to figure out Olberman, the second time was for research.
Theres not a fcking comparison in the world to either Beck, O`Reilly or any of the others you’ve mentioned who’ve long stellar careers with rating Olberman could only dream of coming close to.
If Beck is so batsht crazy I’m sure you can give me an example ?
The people have spoken and so have the sponsors and NBC. The guy was a schmuck and becoming a liability whos viewership was declining daily.
“And I repeat, I’m no Olberman fan, I think he’s a bloviator, along with the rest. Fox and it’s mirror MSNBC are the National Enquirers of TV News.”
The free market has spoken. Not everyone who watchs FOX is a rabid righty. There viewership is about 40% democratic and their ratings kick the sht out of all the others “combined” at peak hours.
Even though these programs are not considered “news” they still contain alot of info giving us a view of the political landscape.
I’d rather watch Beck or O`Reilly where I can get detailed insight and an opposing opinion to an issue as opposed to Katie Couric giving me her vague versions of the same story missing half the truth.
Its no different than blogging. The host presents a subject/issue and you bring in different opinions and debate the issue.
And just for the record, I dont care for Hannity either. Hes a parrot, rigid puppet, an embarrasment, but nowhere near as much a schmuck as Olberman.
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Don’t worry, Mae Li, Morning Joe will be going soon enough. They suck. Joe and Mika lost their radio show a while back. Don Imus is on Fox Business Network, which is barely carried by a quarter of the households MSNBC is and Imus has double the audience, plus 10 million listeners on the radio.
Though I gotta admit, ‘The Old Cowboy’ is getting really tedious of late. He sounded like he was ready to quit this week with all of his complaining. Imus is mad at a whole bunch of people.
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Andy…
On behalf of TA could you let me know if my posts are broken up too often too much ?
Seems numbnuts cant skip over the time stamps, my name etc…
I’d appreciate it.
Thanks
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Micky – I wasn’t commenting on your posts being broken up. I was commenting on the fact that after admittedly having seen the man’s show twice, you have so much insight to share.
January 22nd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
TA;”Micky – I wasn’t commenting on your posts being broken up.”
yeah you did and you have before.
” I was commenting on the fact that after admittedly having seen the man’s show twice, you have so much insight to share.”
Look, stop carrying such dishonest intellect.
I didnt have to watch the guys show a million times to figure out hes a schmuck.
His fcking mouth and the sht comes out of it has been front and center somewhere every freaking day for the last few years.
In the media market he sucks and so he lost.
Its not rocket surgery, it doesnt take alotta fcking insight.
End of story.
January 23rd, 2011 at 4:35 am
Poor Keithy
How we he ever pay his rent in Trump Tower?
Yeah Mick Andy gets kudos for taking the same words I was going to use
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Glenn Beck could not teach kindergarten because I believe you have to have an education beyond high school.
One incomplete class in theology doesn’t quite satisfy that requirement.
He is, at best, Howard Beale.
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Beck can be a pain in the a$$ but he is really hurting Obama and the progressives which is why he is the center of their attention. If Beck is so full of sh*t on the points he makes let them refute him with the evidence. They would just rather whine and call him names.
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Rocket surgery?