“How long ago did you leave MSNBC to go to the Current TV show?” Letterman asked. “It’s over a year, right?”

“I don’t know,” Olbermann said. “I have to consult my notes because after a certain point, I can’t keep track of where I’m working. I don’t have any idea.”

Letterman then proceeded to give Olbermann an “adjustable business card.”

‘I screwed up,’ Olbermann says of working at Current - The Clicker
Cenk Uygur Joining Current TV Current TV has claimed another former MSNBC host: Cenk Uygur, who previously hosted “MSNBC Live,” will host “The Young Turks” ahead of Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown,” the network announced Tuesday. The network will work with Uygur to develop a televised version of his online show “The Young Turks,” which covers politics and pop culture. The new show will air at 7 p.m. ET. (…) “Cenk Uygur has a strong grasp of what audiences seek: context and insight about the news and complex issues that affect their lives, unfettered by corporate influences.  He has a unique and compelling way of boiling it down for his viewers,” said Current Chairman and co-founder Al Gore.  More —> Reuters

Cenk Uygur Joining Current TV

Current TV has claimed another former MSNBC host: Cenk Uygur, who previously hosted “MSNBC Live,” will host “The Young Turks” ahead of Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown,” the network announced Tuesday.

The network will work with Uygur to develop a televised version of his online show “The Young Turks,” which covers politics and pop culture. The new show will air at 7 p.m. ET.

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“Cenk Uygur has a strong grasp of what audiences seek: context and insight about the news and complex issues that affect their lives, unfettered by corporate influences.  He has a unique and compelling way of boiling it down for his viewers,” said Current Chairman and co-founder Al Gore. 

More —> Reuters

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The Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who said he had been “banned” from MSNBC for a year, will also be a contributor to the new “Countdown.” (Mr. Griffin sidelined Mr. Moulitsas for spreading innuendo about Joe Scarborough.) While MSNBC “has pretended to be the progressive network,” Mr. Moulitsas said, “they are conservative in terms of who they have on and what they can say.” Referring to Mr. Olbermann’s new show, he said, “I think that Current recognizes that there is a real opportunity here for a network that has a real diversity of opinions and voices.”

Mr. Olbermann, always pleased to pick a fight, clearly wants to foster competition. To Rolling Stone this month, he said “we’re going to take MSNBC’s business away from them,” a comment that Mr. Griffin chalked up to strategic posturing.

“Look,” he said in an interview on Friday, “everybody has a strategy, and that is purely a strategy. I’m talking about reality, and the reality is that we’ve never been stronger.”

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At New Network, Olbermann Sets Sights on MSNBC - NYTimes.com
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Kate Coe has some interesting things to say about the CurrentTV management regarding the two journalists being help by NKorea

soupsoup:

slippy:

Straight from her Twitter stream:

  • Has Current TV, and by that I mean Al Gore, done SQAT for Laura Ling or Euna Lee?
  • Did Current-TV assign this [story] to them, or did they think up the story?
  • Who was the genius at Current who assigned this story? Who got them that close to the border?
  • Neither Lee nor Ling would have been anywhere close to N. Korea’s border, if not for Current TV’s encouragement. This isn’t network news.
  • Euna Lee should never have been assigned to this story—check out her resume: http://tinyurl.com/lkncsk
  • [Euna Lee] had no network news reporting, field production experience. I’m not blaming her, but who sent her there?
  • Current’s Board members are Al Gore, Steven Jobs, Orville Schell. CEO is Joel Hyatt, CFO is Paul Hollerbach , COO is Joanna Drake Earl.