Four More Years for Keith Olbermann

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/sns-ap-tv-nbc-olbermann,0,3881892.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed

Four More Years for Keith Olbermann

By Associated Press

February 15, 2007, 9:58 AM CST

NEW YORK -- Keith Olbermann will continue to be a thorn in Bill O'Reilly's side for at least four more years.

NBC News announced Thursday it had agreed to a "second term" with the MSNBC "Countdown" host, whose contract was due to expire next month. The extension will take him into 2011.

Besides feuding with Fox News Channel's O'Reilly, Olbermann has become a liberal hero. He has seen his ratings increase since launching a series of anti-President Bush commentaries late last summer.

His prime-time program averaged 715,000 viewers in January, according to Nielsen Media Research. While his audience is often less than a third of O'Reilly's in the same time slot, Olbermann's viewership is up 85 percent over January 2006.
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[WI_DEM]

1. Love it!! Let's hope KO gets over a million viewers in the next year or so

[Demeter]

2. NBC Would Have to Be Crazy Not To

or totally corrupted.

[LSparkle]

3. Great! I'll be able to feast my eyes on my future husband for 4 more years

Yeah, Stephanie Miller, I said it -- you got competition, Momma!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: KO!!!!

[williesgirl]

4. K&R for KO

[Ninga]

5. OK!!!! for KO !!!!!!!

[malaise]

6. Thanks Keith

I'll be here.

[flyarm]

7. CONGRATS KEITH!! NO ONE DESERVES IT MORE!! NO ONE!! N/T

[truebrit71]

8. Fantastic news!!! See, they ARE listening!!

Congratulations Keith, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy, or a better journalist....

FINALLY a win for the good guys!

[GreenTea]

9. Olbermann's ratings keep growing & will continue to grow - He's the best on any of the 5 ......

television news organizations we are allowed to have in this country....Thank you NBC for Keith Olbermann, for tossing us a bone!

ABC = Republican right-wing - Disney

CBS = Corporate republicans - ViaCom

NBC (CNBC MSNBC) = Weapons makers republicans - GE

CNN (CNN Headline) = Republican owned - Time-Warner

Fox = Fascist republicans - Rupert Murdoch

We are only allowed five of the same republican propaganda bullshit news collusion television to keep this fascist corporate structure in place...We are only the gullible slaves.

[Bushies gotta go]

11. thanks for that list

I refuse to watch any programming on ABC or Fox. I mean NO programming at all.

At home, CNN will not be on my set. Unfortunately, on the road, I am often forced to watch CNN or HLN just to get some sort of current news but it makes me puke when I have to.

NBC and MSNBC is really all we've got that comes close to "fair and balanced".

[cal04]

10. thanks for post. Good for Keith!

[B Calm]

12. I'm doing a two week Nielsen survey right now. Olbermann got

my vote every night for the next two weeks. I totally ignored anything on FOX.