Found April 02, 2012 on Awful Announcing: Yardbarker Blogger Network
Like the sun rising each morning in the east, Keith Olbermann has suffered another less-than-friendly divorce with a network. On Friday, Keith's newest employers Current TV fired the face of their network about a year after signing him to a massive five year, 50 million dollar deal to be their Chief News Officer. (And you thought Jayson Werth's signing was a bad contract!) After a successful run at MSNBC that saw Olbermann and his show Countdown thrust into the national spotlight as a ferocious liberal voice, Olbermann abruptly left the network last January. At MSNBC, Olbermann had his most successful and sustained run since his days anchoring "The Big Show" with Dan Patrick on SportsCenter. The move to Al Gore's Current TV was supposed to provide more freedom for Olbermann's political commentary and also allow him to bolster the young network. Now, the Olbermann/Current marriage is ending with threats of lawsuits and reports of Olbermann complainin...
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