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Big MSNBC Ratings For Olbermann's Return

"Had I known that all this would happen, I would have done this years ago!" MSNBC star Keith Olbermann said Tuesday night as he returned to the cable news network after having been suspended for two days over political contributions he made during this year's election.

Olbermann's first show back attracted 1.5 million viewers -- about 50 percent more than usually come to his prime-time show. And after that, his lead-out, Rachel Maddow, snagged more than 1.3 million viewers -- a nice spike relative to her October average of 953,000. As if that weren't enough, Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show bagged nearly 1 million viewers at 10; he'd averaged about 784,000 in October.

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