Keith Olbermann will be dishing on politics, sporting activities and more in new everyday podcast debuting following week.
The previous MSNBC anchor, ESPN host and author is teaming with iHeartMedia to launch “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” billed as a news-pushed clearly show featuring his trademark “Special Comment” political evaluation, “The Worst Persons in the World” segment, and readings from the functions of the humorist James Thurber. The series launches Aug. 1 on iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other main audio platforms.
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It’s intended to be a podcast edition of “Countdown,” the present he hosted on MSNBC from 2003 to January 2011. In 2010, MSNBC suspended Olbermann for building donations to Democratic candidates, violating a coverage that requires information staff to get authorization before undertaking so. The marriage finished abruptly when Olbermann still left MSNBC in 2011 for an sick-fated stint at Latest, a startup cable-information outlet launched in element by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
The approaching podcast’s “Worst Folks in the World” daily roundup is “back by unpopular desire,” Olbermann suggests in the show’s trailer, to spotlight “miscreants, stinkers, rascals, reprobates, racists, fascists and celebration-poopers, sometimes meant seriously and occasionally not so a lot.”
In addition to bringing back enthusiast favorites from “Countdown,” Olbermann will broaden the written content to include things like a regular sporting activities section and a day-to-day contact to assistance a struggling pet. Olbermann also will share a series of anecdotes from his vocation spanning his coverage of the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice one thirty day period right after his 21st birthday to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-sport present in a span of just 12 days.
Olbermann, 63, teases in the trailer that, “since this is a podcast,” he’ll share stories about “the factors I promised not to tell about my profession and everyday living, usually about some outdated manager of mine or when I dated Laura” — Ingraham, the Fox Information host — “so at minimum you are going to know it was not all my fault.”
Olbermann has been a sports and information anchor, reporter and commentator given that 1976. In addition to his get the job done on CNN, ESPN Radio, ESPN2, MSNBC, Fox Athletics Net and RKO Radio, and has also hosted news, politics and pports programming for ABC, CBS, Conde Nast, Hearst, Tribune and UPI. He is the winner of three Edward R. Murrow Awards and the creator of six books.
Pay attention to the trailer for “Countdown With Keith Olbermann”:
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