Neil Best of NEWSDAY and Richard Deitsch of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED have confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not appear on NBC’s “Football Night In America” broadcasts this season. Best reported:
NBC has confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not be on its “Football Night in America” show this season.
The move was initiated not by NBC Sports but by NBC News, which wanted Olbermann to focus exclusively on his job as host of his own show on MSNBC.
Deitsch added today on Twitter:
NBC Sports has officially (and finally) confirmed that Keith Olbermann will not be on Football Night in America this season.
On August 5 I reported Olbermann was out at ‘FNIA’ due to concerns about his MSNBC duties being affected by his NBC football broadcast appearances.
The first Football Night In America broadcast is tomorrow night as the New Orleans Saints host the Minnesota Vikings. I’ve been told by an NBC official that Dan Patrick will take over Olbermann’s previous duties - which included narrating highlights from other games during the season.
12:13 pm on September 8th, 2010
good riddance to Keith Olbermann…what a Bore!
12:54 pm on September 8th, 2010
One down, one to go. I like Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman on ESPN, but it gets tiring when they try to one up each other in the joke department. Then you have Costas giggling like a school girl and it takes 45 minutes to get through highlights. KO was the main reason why I stopped watching FNIA.
1:12 pm on September 8th, 2010
The biggest hack in the history of television.
3:09 pm on September 8th, 2010
So now he can suck in one place instead of two.
3:40 pm on September 8th, 2010
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there…
3:46 pm on September 8th, 2010
Note to NBC News: Check his ratings…no one watches his one hour of fabrication.
6:06 pm on September 8th, 2010
Thank goodness! Aside from it being weird having an angry political pundit on a sports show, there are just too many people with too much going on with that broadcast. K.I.S.S.
8:38 pm on September 8th, 2010
No one watches his garbage on MSNBC anyway? His fox counterparts destroy him in the ratings, sometimes doubling and tripling his viewers. Him and Rachel Maddow can go jump off a bridge together
9:37 pm on September 8th, 2010
What a loser Overbite is
9:28 am on September 9th, 2010
Maybe Fox will have to start thinking about what they air again.
9:59 am on September 9th, 2010
Why the surprise? He’s just getting tossed along with all of the other Democrats this year.
11:11 am on September 9th, 2010
“Him and Rachel Maddow”
Nice grammar.
9:13 pm on September 9th, 2010
nbc sports - what a bunch of no-nothings.
5:19 pm on September 10th, 2010
People hate Olbermann because they can’t handle the truth. Faux News gets better ratings because conservative men would rather get a distortion of the truth with their pants around their ankels. Don Henley said it best……”Bubble Headed Bleach Blondes”