Keith Olbermann’s New Venture

Back soon, it looks like.  Or, at least as soon as his departure agreement with MSNBC allows.

11:02 a.m. | Updated Keith Olbermann, the former MSNBC anchor, will host a prime time program for Current TV, the low-rated cable channel co-founded by Al Gore. The program will begin sometime later this year.

Mr. Olbermann will also become the chief news officer for Current, the company said in a news release Tuesday.

All I know is I just checked my Comcast cable line-up and it looks to me like a fee-for-service station here in Richmond.

Bye, Bye Keith

And we all thought it was just going to be a re-tooling of his "Worst Person In The World" segment.  Watch Rachel Maddow on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher.



Sounds like the probable contract buy-out comes with some restrictions:

The decision was completed one year to the day from the last time NBC decided to end a relationship with an on-air star: Conan O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien agreed in the deal not to start up a new television show for nine months, and not to grant interviews for five months. The executives involved in the discussions with Mr. Olbermann said his agreement was not dissimilar to Mr. O’Brien’s.

So, we'll probably be hearing from Keith sometime this summer, with a good chance that he will be back on the airwaves by this time next year.

The Best of 2010: The Keith Olbermann Edition

Enjoy Keith Olbermann's "Special Investigation" on Obama-Not-the-First-Muslim-President!  A best of the year!