Keith Olbermann returning to ESPN

Will host one-hour, nightly news show on ESPN2 beginning later this year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/sports/after-16-year-absence-olbermann-is-said-to-be-returning-to-espn-to-host-show.html?smid=tw-nytmedia&seid=auto&_r=1&

What's the over-under on how long THIS lasts?

 

Maybe he's learned his lesson. I doubt it, but maybe.

 

Welcome to the end of his career.

 

Nicely played.

 

I doubt it too... He might be on his best behavior initially, but I'll bet that within a few weeks he'll be in his comfort zone, and will be brow-beating producers and making interns cry.

 

One more reason not to watch that bloated, self-serving channel.

 

According to SI's Richard Deitsch on Twitter, the show will be called "Olbermann" and will debut Aug. 26 at 11 p.m. ET:

https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/357540887607263233

 

Ratings are down 20 percent across the board on both ESPN TV and radio from a year ago and the answer is to rehire this guy?

Two sinking ships deserving of one another.

 

So he's going to compete with SportsCenter?

I don't get it.

 

The hell with that ... he's going to be competing against Fox Sports Live on Fox Sports 1.

 

I wouldn't regard ESPN as a sinking ship, as it's about the biggest cash cow Disney has. I agree with TheHacker as to why Olbermann was hired and the time spot he got. He's going up against those two Canadian Patrick-Olbermann kindofalikes, isn't he?
I'll watch the show sometime in its first week. No promises after that. Keith doesn't wear well with me, meaning I could have been one of his employers.

 

It hasn't even started...and yet I can see ESPN execs already reaching for the Tums.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/olbermann-wants-bush-obama-for-new-show-170577.html?hp=r8

Actually, I see KO probably getting into more heat taking on the NCAA, doing a "special comment" directed at Roger Goodell, and making life uncomfortable for the network's "partners," getting into spats with people at Fox Sports 1, ripping on The Masters, the Olympics....