Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sports and political commentator and writer. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s. He co-hosted ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. From March 2003 to January 2011 he hosted the weeknight political commentary program Countdown with Keith Olberman on MSNBC. From September 2016 until November 2017 he hosted a web series for GQ, titled The Closer, covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On October 6, 2020 he again resigned from ESPN to start a political commentary show on his YouTube channel.
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Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sports and political commentator and writer. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and radio stations in the 1980s, winning the Best Sportscaster award from the California Associated Press three times. He co-hosted ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992 to 1997. From March 2003 to January 2011 he hosted the weeknight political commentary program Countdown with Keith Olberman on MSNBC. From September 2016 until November 2017 he hosted a web series for GQ, titled The Closer, covering the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On October 6, 2020 he again resigned from ESPN to start a political commentary show on his YouTube channel. He is of German ancestry and grew up in a Unitarian household in the town of Hastings-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York. He has one younger sister, Jenna, who was born in 1968, and a younger brother, Michael, born in 1973. Olber Mann was a devoted fan of baseball at a young age, a love he inherited from his mother who was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He often wrote about baseball card-collecting and appeared in many sports card- collecting periodicals of the mid 1970s. In the early-to-mid 1980s he was a sportscaster on the old WNEW 1130-AM radio station in New York City. In 1984, he briefly worked as a sports anchor at WCVB-TV in Boston before heading to Los Angeles to work at KTLA and KCBS.
His work there earned him 11 Golden Mike Awards and he was named best sportscasters by the CaliforniaAssociated Press three years in a row. In 1992 he joined ESPN’s sports program, SportsCenter, a position he held until 1997 with the exception of a period from 1993 to 1994 when he was at ESPN2. He made 350,000 at the end of his tenure at ESPN, but started at just over USD 150,000. He later co-authored a book about their experiences at SportsCenter; he said that he also said that that short-lived ABC dramedy Sports Night was based on his time on SportsCenter with Dan Patrick. In January 2018 he returned to ESPN’sSportsCenter program, expanding in May to some baseball play-by-play work. He often coed SportsCenter: 00:00-00:00 p.m. m. He won a Cable ACE award in 1995 for his work on the 11:00 p.m.-00:01 m. show. He also won a cable ACE award for his coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, including the \”Miracle on Ice, including the two-game coverage of that event. In 1995 he co-wrote a book called The Big Show about his experiences working at Sportscenter; he later coed the Big Show on ABC with Patrick. He started at ESPN with his last year at ABC, having been co-owned with ESPN since 1985.
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