NBC Plans Countdown with Keith Olbermann Anniversary Special
Broadcast Network Hopes to Expand Audience for Sister Cable Network MSNBC’s Series
By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/20/2008 11:26:00 AM
NBC will broadcast an anniversary special commemorating five years of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the top-rated program on sister channel MSNBC.

NBC will air the Countdown special March 30 at 7 p.m.
The network hopes to expand the program’s audience by giving broadcast viewers a look at the show.
Countdown last appeared on NBC in a special edition slated before Sunday Night Football last August. That special did not score with viewers, finishing fourth in its timeslot and garnering an audience of only 1.3 million.
Despite saying that he approached the first NBC Countdown as a "one-shot deal," Olbermann said in a conference call last year that he would not rule out another appearance on the parent network in the future. With the fifth-anniversary special scheduled, Olbermann will get a second chance to make an impact with broadcast viewers.
"When we started this five years ago, I told a reporter that our charge was to stay out of the way of the news: 'News is the news. We will not be screwing around with it,'" Olbermann said in announcing the anniversary special. "We held true to that promise -- we just screwed around with everything about its presentation and interpretation. And I'm delighted by the results and honored by the incredible loyalty of those viewers who join me each night."
Beginning March 31, Countdown will feature some of the highlights from the five years of the show, including Olbermann’s first “special comment” about then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the show’s re-enactment of the Larry Craig fiasco.
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Dear Mr. Olberman
Dear Mr. Olberman;
Hello there;
The first time I heard you it did not dawn on me that I would become an avid fan of yours. But you grew over the years and your tireless effort to expose the sheer imorality of "Fix news" as the mouthpiece for the perpetrators of an immoral and evil war upon an innocent nation was of historic propotion to us.
Your foresightedness in ending each day with a reminder of the number of days since the mission of accomplishment is a praiseworthy.
it is a daily slap on the face of the proponants of this war and a reminder as to how out of touch this president and his protegee mccain are with the world around them.
To people like myself the fact that people like Sean Hannity, Laura Iingram, Bill O', Rush Limbaough and Michael Savage are a stain on the normal world is not the issue but the fact that America has been made dysfunctional and mentally incapable of independant thinking by the frequent use of the word patriot as a bludgen to silence dissent under the cover of the easy access gifted to them to Federal airwaves broacasting these poluted, convoluted and derainged views of this hateful group of fear mongers put into place to get fanatical creatures elected to the most prestgious office in the world and the world has to sffer for their slective use of first amendment.
Sam Sammurai (pen name) - 3/27/2008 11:46:00 AM EDT -
It would be the most precious gift for me if my wife Sammye Asghar could appear on Keith Olberman as a voter for Obama she has a BA in Political Science and this would be my pre birthday gift to her (valentine born) and in her eyes the only person left after the death of the Canadian news castor from ABC is Kieth Olberman.
Here is an article that both of us have written and our thoughts on the world around us for Kieth to review and comment on.
Is Bill Richardson the Clintons poodle because as a Hispanic they think they made his carrer and he somehow owes them lifelong allegiance?
Is Governor Randell crossing the line with his rhetoric on electability---and ignoring whopper after whopper from Clinton instead of advising her to stop her lies and yet more sensible still to refrain from telling tall tales to justify this false claim to a 35 year non-existent credential to answer the red phone call at 3 A.M. which neither Randell or Senator Levin or Kevin Bye have done while they have subtly scaled down the 35 years to a new non-existent figure of 15 years and yet each of them and their surrogates have failed to address the issue of false and or tall tales with a straight face without offsetting it by mixing in the pastor.
The same approach is employed by their candidate and/or her family by becoming in your face or bold faced when caught with their pants down.
Nothing less than hundreds of witness and a video Camera can force them to come and semi admit that they committed pujery and that too when faced by hard evidence! Monica Lewinsky all over again, only this time the video Camera was the proverbial Blue Dress.
Governor Randell by his dysfunctional rhetoric and or his silence of complicity is aiding and abetting a liar and deceitful character and such appearance of co-conspiracy is an attempt by our own side of hoisting that trickster character upon us by borderline fabrication used as talking points and must be pointed out to all by patriotic Americans.
This tactic is just going to force more anti democratic party people to run who are turned off by this potential candidates ability to lie and get away with and a nuisance for the Democratic party of which "Randell" is part of and using as a spring board platform to speak from.
That this form of political support is giving the appearance of hackery if not complicity by his silence on the issue of lying not just once but three times on the same subject, for goodness sake how many sleepless nights and sleep deprivations can they justify her lies off on before Randell is called an enabler.
These facts are drowing out the undisputed fact that Senator McCain’s is old and his inability to grasp reality makes him incapable of leading any nation not just a nation facing depression.
It is forcing the lead story off the front page much to McCain’s gain and that story is the efforts of the Republican to conceal what victory is in his mind and in the mind of his clueless mentor and the fact that both would be content in their opulent environment (where one concedes he was not aware that gas prices were at $.00 dollars) without remorse if they had to define victory to mean the death of the last man standing be it Iraqi or American without regard to the fact that an immoral act cannot be justified by any means. None period!
As for this liar and her player spouse known to us as the gift that keeps on giving without relief, by bringing up a pastor again and again in an effort to somehow offset the fact that the people who know them will consider the pastor to lessen the Clintonian joint re-unelectibility in 2008---it should be made clear by Obama voter by letter writing and slogans as a message to all including senator Obama that no voter who is a patriot considers that gthe senator should keep on talking about his pastor.
Once and for all the senator should ask his voters the question: "should he keep responding to Clintons and surrogates cover-ups by bring up Obama" and he will find out that nothing in the rule book says to him by and through the people who will vote for him that he has to be guilty by association.
He should take that as his poll and move on.
The message his voters are giving him is that they recognize he took what he wanted from the sermons and became the inclusive forward thinking man of the world he is and that is the man worth voting for!
Michael Richardson
democratic party ; Peter Schurman MoveOn.org ; Obama campaign ; Sen. Kennedy , go_consulting4offices@yahoo.com, Consultant.Writer.Historian ;
Senator Debbie Stabenow , Senator McCain , U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer ; Impeach Bush CheneyThe Pen , newsmax@reply.newsmax.com, News Cnn , verdict@msnbc.com, Keith Olbermann ; Senator Kennedy.Sen. Ted Kennedy ; Congressman Robert Wexler ;
Senator Chris Dodd
Michael richardson - 3/27/2008 11:30:00 AM EDT -
I really use to like Keith, I watched him on his first go around with MSNBC.
I stopped watching Countdown two months ago. When it became the
Obama hour.
Christine D - 3/22/2008 12:51:00 AM EDT
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