It’s been months of sad sunsets, home movies, and self-described money-counting for Keith Olbermann since getting fired from Current TV, and now the hard-to-please host is ready to get back to work. At Forbes, Jeff Bercovici writes that Olbermann, who has also done time at MSNBC, Fox Sports, and CNN, is “aggressively job-shopping, and he’s not being too picky about it.”…
Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it’s had some difficulty. Now, it’s up for sale…
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From what I can tell, the network has kept the doors open for only one reason: It’s available for cable subscribers with a percentage of their monthly bundle fee being paid to the network. Otherwise, it’s like MTV at the nursing home. It’s being paid for, nobody watches it and it’s just not possible to remove it from the monthly cost.
So, with a captive cable source, and the possibility of realizing more than 16 million in annual revenue, there’s the potential for another company to make some money with the channel.
A “Three Stooges” network comes to mind. I’m sure it would gross at least ten times as much as the Al Gore cheerleader format.
That, or “Watch the Grand Canyon Erode Network”.
“Celebrity Farm Blow-Up”
” Let’s Take a Bath”
Hey, I need someone to clean my gutters. Is Olberman still available?
It’s Bushes fault!!!!!!!!!!! They didn’t count the votes right.
See?
Now, that’s the difference ‘tween you’n me, Missy.
I would’a used a strait jacket.
He’d blow up REAL good.
The mystery is how he ever got the Countdown gig to begin with. He’s too conceited to realize how crazy that is. Now he thinks lightning will strike every day.
He should form a support group with David Caruso, Arsenio Hall, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and what’s-her-name from ER.
I hadda go Willy Wonka, Doug :)
An oldie but goodie?
Why didn’t he just stick with sports reporting?
The only “long shot” hope for Keith is an American take of the Canadian show,the “Red Green Show”. This version will combine *Duct Tape with the Volt car*……………….Whether it will be a comedy or a tragedy soap opera is in discussion………..
Please Col.J not the Red Green Show!!! Of course they could put him in a Volt and shoot him across the lake with a big sling shot——to see how far it would go on sling shot power. Or in the tower –yes– he would do well there— Gore could visit and they could watch for the rising seas.
He could prolly get disability.
Being demoncrat qualifies, right?