I saw this on Deadspin this morning, and the first thing that went through my mind was "Olby's reaping what he sowed." I love Keith when he's behaving himself. But baring a massive case of amnesia amongst television executives he'll never work on national TV again. The fact that MLB Network is barely touching what would be one of most logical fits for their channel is a damning enough indictment.
I have to believe this was leaked by ESPN, if only to remind Mr Olbermann how little power he has at this moment. Even his comment within it was bad Keith: too smug and too smart ass given how desperate he is to work. One other big error by the writer is the assumption that, even if Olbermann was somehow brought back to Bristol, they'd try to get Mr Patrick as well. While The Big Show is what truly elevated ESPN to their current level, it violated the general rule there of not pushing one personality or broadcast above the rest. In "Those Guys Have All The Fun", there's a section that discusses how much that phrase irritated the higher-ups at the network, because it implied that the 11 PM show was the flagship, which wasn't what they wanted to push (despite it being 100% true). On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The NYT reports that Keith Olbermann's people (and Olbermann himself) were > talking to ESPN about coming back to the Worldwide Leader where he supposedly > burned his bridges 16 years ago--for his part, president John Skipper says > there's no place for Olby right now--and Dan Patrick, for his part, says that > if Olbermann comes back to Bristol (which he called the heading when on the > Craiggers "Daily Show"), don't expect him to follow: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/sports/keith-olbermann-expresses-interest-in-return-to-espn.html?_r=1&; > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
