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Report: Keith Olbermann Out At Football Night In America


Keith Olbermann will not appear on the upcoming season of NBC’s Sunday night football show, Football Night in America, according to a report by SportsByBrooks.com. SbB cited “multiple media and network television sources” in the report.

Some members of the FNIA cast and crew were made aware of the news Tuesday at a preseason production meeting in New York City.

Network television sources confirmed to me that Olbermann’s departure from FNIA was not due to any conflict with cast or production crew members. I was also given no indication that Olbermann’s politics had anything to do with the move.

Last season, Olbermann anchored FNIA, which served as the lead-in to NBC’s ratings monster Sunday Night Football. NBC stacked the show with on-air talent in 2009: in addition to Olbermann, Dan Patrick, Bob Costas, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, and Peter King appeared.

[NBC Takes Olbermann Off ‘Football Night In America’] SportsByBrooks



  • pghdomain

    Evidenced by their huge popularity on ESPN, Dan Patrick & Keith Olbermann make a great team and Keith’s absence will be sorely missed. Patrick is obviously gifted and with Olbermann, you have a guy who, during the eighties, won the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. In the ninties, won a Cable ACE award for Best Sportscaster and when ESPN2 was launched they used Keith as their marquee personality. In 2003, FOX Sports Net won an Edward R. Murrow Award for writing on the “Keith Olbermann Speaking of Everything” show. Say what you will about his politics, in the sports broadcasting world, Keith is King.

  • jbish828

    Good. I’ll be tuning in now.

  • TeamTressel

    I will 2. Purposley have not watched because of him.

  • GB3Pack4

    Thank heavens he’s gone. I have tried (and failed) to discern why on earth he was there in the first place. His humor is nonhumorous and inappropriate. His football knowledge and more importantly, his football FOCUS, is nonexistent. He just doesn’t give a XXXX about who wins or loses, how or why. He could care less. He’s like The Suit on the barstool who doesn’t realize he’s getting buzzed and making an ass (apologies to the ass) out of himself.

  • Carl Spackler

    Me three. I refused to watch Olbermann. However, I’m not a fan of Costas either so I may take a gander but I doubt I’ll become a loyal viewer. Why can’t ESPN just bring back NFL Primetime?

  • Passon1stDown

    Thank you sweet Jesus. For NBC to be so completely and utterly tone deaf about the use of this clown on a non political show is illuminating. They have to understand that this guy is divisive and vulgar. I don’t begrudge his right to have opinions but I do find it offensive that NBC inserted him smack in the middle of a sports program when 1/2 to 2/3 of America hates him. Go back to MSNBC and spout your nonsense, Keith.

    Now the rest of America can watch the pregame show.

    Thank you NBC Sports, better late than never.

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