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Is Turner-Bound Olbermann Now Talking To CNN?

Just weeks after Turner Sports hired Keith Olbermann for its baseball playoffs studio broadcasts on TBS this coming October, the much-traveled host is now talking with ESPN about doing a late-night talk show on ESPN2.  That show’s debut, reports Bob Raismann, would reportedly be timed to help blunt the buzz of Fox’s August debut of its Fox Sports 1 network. Olbermann has a history with both ESPN and Fox, Raismann notes: he co-hosted SportsCenter on ESPN back in the ‘90s, and then competed against that show as a host on the Fox Sports Net.  In both cases, Olbermann had major run-ins with management.

 

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