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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